I’m putting together a ratings and review website to compare electronic cigarettes (eCigs) and eCig suppliers. The site is built on wordpress using the GD Star Ratting plugin. For those of you who may not know about ecigs they are mechanical cigarette like devices which use an atomizer to vaporize nicotine. The main appeal, aside form being “smokeless” (that is in theory you could smoke one in an airport), is they’re a bit cheaper.

Running Microsofts Internet Information Services (IIS) and a SQL Server on the same development box as WAMP can sometimes cause port conflicts resulting in Apache not starting. Suppose – hypothetically speaking – you’ve recently decided to spend some time setting up IIS server and an MS SQL server on a Vista box (Windows Vista Home Premium in my case).  Then later you switch gears and after setting up IIS and MS SQL server you decide to do some Apache and PHP development only to find that Apache is blocked on port 80.