Posted in Development, php on January 20, 2008
As a long-term PhpED user, I've always been well aware that I was not making the most of some of the more powerful features of my IDE, particularly the debugging capabilities. Well this week I finally
Posted in Development on January 3, 2008
I've already installed Trac and I now want to be able to set-up multiple projects with the minimum of fuss. My requirements are: Not having to mess with the Apache configuration every time I add a
Posted in dev-sys on January 2, 2008
My background task over the Christmas holidays was to ensure that I could give read/write access to a subversion repository situated on a machine within our corporate network so that staff or external
Posted in dev-sys on January 2, 2008
I used to get annoyed when pasting text into a Vim window as each line would indent one more tab than the last line. To fix it I used to add set noautoindent in /etc/vimrc, however this unsurprisingly
Posted in dev-sys on January 1, 2008
The following is a no-frills install guide for getting Trac up and running on a Debian 'etch' Linux system. The assumption is that you've already got mysql and subversion working and have created a
Posted in dev-sys on December 30, 2007
More brain dumping, this time after setting up MySQL on my test server to replicate offsite as the data on there is becoming important. Both machines are running fully updated and upgraded Debian Etch
Posted in dev-sys on December 30, 2007
Ok, if you 'do' Linux, then you'll probably already know this one. I did, kind of, but had to Google to remind myself of the exact chain of commands. So here I am writing it down so it's easier to
Posted in dev-sys on December 21, 2007
I needed 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
Posted in Development, Featured on December 16, 2007
I've just uploaded a blank Wordpress theme called Naked that I built to assist those (like myself in the past) who have a need to quickly roll-out a Wordpress theme with a custom look and feel but may
Posted in dev-sys on December 3, 2007
This morning I'm debugging an issue on a script that gets cronned every minute. I've a shell open on the server and the file in question open using Vim and I notice each line has a trailing ^M....