How to use virtual host in WAMP server in PC

Website development in local computer or PC has lots many configuration. Developers who are using WAMP (Apache, MySQL and PHP bundle for windows) server can develop the website by putting the project files into the WAMP installation folder which is most of the time:

c:\wamp\www\folder_name\

and you need to access your test site as:

http://localhost/folder_name

where the folder name is your project folder name where index.php file exists. As a developer you must have thought of accessing your site as a general URL and also keeping your project folder and files outside the WAMP directory. To accomplish this you need to setup the virtual host into the WAMP server and this blog describe details steps involved to accomplish the goal.

Setting up virtual host in WAMP server involves the below steps:

What programming language should I choose to start with?

Many freshers or beginners ask question about what is the best programming language to start with? What programming language should I choose if I want to enter the computing world? Lets discuss about which programming language to start with. Why it is better to choose to start with.

Books to refer for learning:

• Let us C -- By Yashavant KanetKar (Buy it from Amazon)
• The C Programming Language -- By Brian W. Kernighan (Buy From Amazon)
• Programming in ANSI C -- By E Balagurusamy (Buy it From Amazon)

Programming Best Practices - A Guide for Application Developers

Standardizing a software product is a nightmare of product manager or software leads. When many people are working to build a software application, each developer has its own style to write code or design. Setting a standard to follow across all development modules help minimizing the risk of being diverted from standardize products.

Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
--Martin Fowler

A good programmer need not only to write code that computer understands but also humans can read and understand it easily. Here come the great aspect of code readability. Watch the four video lecture.

C Programming: Can you guess the output? Printing ASCII Table.

Have you wondered why the above program results in infinite loop? Apparently there is no reason to be. It is a very simple program to print the ASCII table and we know that the ASCII value of characters range from 0 to 255 and it is prominent that the loop is going from 0 to 255. So why the infinite loop?

Configure Sendmail for WAMP and connect with Gmail in development

Have you installed WAMP into your PC for developing a website and looking for how to send email with it for testing your email feature is working or not? Continue reading this blog.

Unlike XAMP, WAMP does not come integrated with sendmail feature and thus you need to do something extra when you want to test your development waork in your local machiine. To configure WAMP for sending email you need to follow the below steps (assuming WAMP is already installed and working okay):

1. Download the Fake Sendmail for Windows.
2. Use Gmail or any other email account to configure the sendmail.
3. Change te Gmail setting to allow third party email sending feature.
4. Update the PHP.ini configuration for your website or WAMP server.

Here is the detail elaboration of the steps involved.