Darren Beale

Enabling spell checking within FCKeditor

Sunday, April 23, 2006

CMS Made Simple uses the great GPL WYSIWYG editor FCKeditor and I noticed this morning that it has a spell checking facility. To get it to work, I: Installed aspell on my dev server: [code]apt-get install aspell Reading Package Lists… Done Building Dependency Tree… Done The following extra packages will be installed: aspell-bin aspell-en dictionaries-common libaspell15 Suggested packages: aspell-doc spellutils [...]

debian start-up script tip

Sunday, April 16, 2006

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If you’ve just installed something and want to make sure it starts on boot then the init.d script needs adding to the various run level folders as a symlink. It’s a bit of a drag and it can be sometimes forgotten. Never mind, Debian comes with a handy script: Lets assume that we have a script [...]

Creating a second virtual hard disk for a linux server with VM Ware

Tuesday, April 4, 2006

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On my virtual Debian Sarge development server running within VMWare I wanted to create a separate virtual disk so that if I ever want to use the data on it with another virtual machine I can. Here’s the mini How-To: http://bealers.com/how-to/creating-a-separate-vmware-hard-disk-for-a-linux-virtual-server/

Wordpress PHP syntax highlighting

Thursday, March 30, 2006

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I’ve been writing code in my spare time again and have been wanting to blog little snippets but Wordpress munges any code that I add into the post body. I googled for wordpress plugins and most didn’t support WP 2 or were a bit tame but then look what I found. The iG:Syntax Hiliter by [...]

Using rsyc to mirror a subversion repository

Wednesday, September 14, 2005

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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) apu: svn mirror [...]

Gmail Freecycle filtering HOWTO

Tuesday, September 6, 2005

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Recently I got into FreeCycle. If you don’t use it then I would strongly recommend that you at least try it out although it should be noted that the list has VERY high traffic. I think it’s a great concept and I’ve managed to get shot of lots of old hardware that was cluttering up [...]

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Enabling spell checking within FCKeditor

debian start-up script tip

Creating a second virtual hard disk for a linux server with VM Ware

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Using rsyc to mirror a subversion repository

Gmail Freecycle filtering HOWTO

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