The other day my dev server completely died, this was rather inconvenient to say the least. 24 hrs later and my new (excellent, very quiet, powerful but only consuming 150w) HP 54L Proliant Microserver was sitting on my desk ready for building. I’ve done a server build so often that I can do it with [...]
I’m trying to develop an MS Onenote add-on. This hard because I’m a web developer with LAMP skills so the world of C#, Visual Studio 2012, COM, Registries, DLLs and installers is all new to me. To make things worse it seems that Onenote doesn’t qualify for a VSTO and its file format is still closed [...]
Instead of being outdoors I geeked out indoors this weekend and amongst other things installed a Bitcoin daemon on a public facing server so I could have a play with the API/RPC features. Below I document the steps I followed as it turned out to be slightly more taxing than the usual apt-get install bitcoind
Ok, if you ‘do’ linux then you’ll probably already know this one. I did, kinda, but canadian pharmacy no prescription had to Google to remind myself of the exact chain of commands. So here I am writing it down so it’s easier to find next time. In my case I had a load of apache [...]
I had a need to migrate all of our subversion repositories from an overworked machine onto a new dedicated machine. As I had about 30 repositories to copy over I didn’t fancy doing each dump -> copy -> create -> import manually so I came up with the following. Which, amazingly, worked first time. I’d [...]
Need to move multiple subversion repositories? Well I just finished putting a simple how-to cialis order together which details the steps I took when moving our 30+ svn projects from one server to another. It went really smoothly and took about a quarter of the time I was expecting it to. Anyway, here it is. [...]
A mini How-To detailing how I created a separate virtual partition for my local dev server: I halted the virtual machine and then under VMWare settings I select Hard Disks then add. Once the disk is created and saved out I re-start the machine. Initally we have to partition the disk and make it a recognised file system. Once [...]
Edit: Sorry I never got around to finishing this, there’s only 2 parts of 3. For the past few years I’ve not really learnt anything new PHP dev-wise, mainly because I’ve been getting on with the task of running a business. Anyway, recently I’ve been bringing myself back up-to-speed with what’s happening at the leading edge [...]
I’ve added a second part to my of my Using the Zend Framework over in my How-To section. http://bealers.com/how-to/using-the-zend-framework-part-2/ Related: Part 1
I wanted to add my Zend Framework example code to subversion but to do that I needed a local Subversion repository As I had to figure out some of the bits how to this, I decided to put all of my steps into a mini How-To. Here it is: http://bealers.com/how-to/creating-a-subversion-repository/