Celebration Homes for Sale

Today I was wondering about Celebration Homes. ¿What are celebration homes? I ran a search on Google and got tons of results about Celebration Homes for Sale. So, curiously I found celebration homes is a brand and a company that build homes (home builders?).

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This article is not paid or advertisement, but I wanted to analyze how efficient could be a brand name for someone that don’t know what it means. This is something more common than usual, when someone don’t know what a word means, now is common to put it in a search engine and see what kind of results appear.

They have a lot of home designs, luxury homes, etc. with funny names like Crest, Celebrity, Regency, Provincial, Regal, Virtue, Vogue, Habitat, Empire, Gala, Allure, etc.

BTW, the pictures and homes I saw looks really good ;)

How to install Apache and PHP in CentOS

How to Linode VPSWe are configuring a new VPS box in Linode and we choose CentOS as the linux distribution. If you are in a similar situation, we show here a few steps that may help you with the installation. Doesn’t matter if you are not in Linode, Slicehost, GoDaddy or your own home based server. If you did not decide yet to get a VPS, it is a good solution if you want to scale your websites or web applications. Reseller hosting or shared hosting are fine but when you come to get traffic, you cannot depend on your neighbors to keep your site running or not. So, isolating your server under a VPS is a very good decision.

As reference (and inspiration), we got most of the steps from the following resources:

First of all, connect via SSH and log as root so you can install packages using yum installer.

Install Apache

sudo yum install httpd mod_ssl

Then, you can start your Apache server by running:

sudo /etc/init.d/httpd start

When navigating to http://, you will notice a new Welcome page.

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Chkconfig

You can use chkconfig to configure httpd to run automatically each time the server is restarted.

sudo /sbin/chkconfig httpd on

How to Install PHP5 under CentOS

You can install it using yum installer. Specify all the modules availables or at least all modules that you require for your environment. In our case, we will specify the following:

sudo yum install php-common php-gd php-mcrypt php-pear php-pecl-memcache php-mhash php-mysql php-xml

Then, restart (or reload) Apache again:

sudo /etc/init.d/httpd reload

Configuration

Once the installation is ready, we need to configure Apache so we can host multiple sites in the same server. Also, we need to make sure Apache will run using fast-cgi (at least in our case).

Prototyping Web Applications

balsamiq-download

Balsamiq is a prototype tool that is gaining a lot of popularity nowadays. The idea is really brilliant IMHO, and these guys made a very useful tool that worth every penny.

You can build mockups quickly and communicate your ideas to the development team or for business purposes. You can try it for free before considering to purchase. The evaluation test is not for download, instead you need to try it online.

How to develop iPhone applications in Windows

How to develop iPhone applications in Windows? iphone-emulator-windowsThis question is being asked by many people that do not use Mac OS. There are many attempts to answer this problem but my conclusion is that the easier way is to buy an inexpensive Mac system or ordering a Mac hosting service and connecting via Remote Desktop from a Windows OS.

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Create Gantt diagrams onlines

gantt-online-tool

I have found Gantter, a fantastic online and free project management tool for create and edit online Gantt diagrams.

One of the most attractive aspect of this tool is that you don’t need to register or login to use it. Just open the homepage and you are ready for use it (this is an extreme example of lazy registration).

gantt-boxThe design is very neat and easy to use. Also, it allows to import from Microsoft Project files and you can save the files (download) to your local disk. Probably Volodymyr Mazepa, the author, will be adding new other fantastic features once he realize the great success on this online project management tool alternative.

Tons of free powerpoint templates

powerpoint-templates

Free Powerpoint Templates is a website that offers tons of free powerpoint template designs ready for create your own presentations. I have been using Microsoft Powerpoint since I was young and I remember it wasn’t easy to find original templates college presentations. My life would be easier if I had this resource earlier.

Go to Free Powerpoint Templates website