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Creating a subversion repository

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/

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Vim: Enough tabs already

Scenario: You are connected to a Linux webserver via a Windows terminal client such as PuTTy. You copy some text to paste into a Vim document open on the remote machine and you get tab hell: Here’s an example of something I pasted in tonight: [code] ServerAdmin webmaster@host.some_domain.com DocumentRoot /home/bealers/www ServerName bealers.dev ErrorLog /var/log/apache/bealers.dev-error.log CustomLog [...]

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Building a PHP Development server from scratch

***This post is very out of date. See here for a newer version written in 2013.*** Following these instructions will get you a Debian based PHP/MySQL development server set-up with the ability to have multiple developer sandboxes that are accessible from a remote machine on the local network, using Samba. Time needed < 1hr INSTALL OPERATING SYSTEM [...]

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Creating a Subversion repository

This item assumes that you already have svn installed and this is the first time you’ve created a repository for this server (else leave out certain bits) All items here worked for me on my local development server where I’d already installed subversion but up to now had only been using it as a client to check [...]

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Using rsyc to mirror a subversion repository

At work we use subversion to manage our code, we also use Trac to manage bugs which has handy hooks into subversion. Unfortunately they are on different (internal) servers. This is quick What I DidTM to get the live svn server (taipan) to sync with the Trac server (apu) taipan: svn server (Debian 3.0 woody) [...]

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