Subversion over ssh
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 …
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Vim auto indenting
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 …
Installing Trac on Debian etch
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 …
MySQL replication
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 …
Search and replace multiple files with sed
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 …
Moving multiple subversion repositories
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 …
Removing DOS linebreaks from your files using Vim
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.... …
The Bristol Digital Media Scene
I was in Bristol for a few days earlier this week for Skillswap (which my company sponsored) and the UWE Web Developer Conference; both were excellent events so kudos to Laura and Dan & team …
Superb Javascript lectures
As someone doing more and more frontend development using javascript I'm trying to shore up my knowledge a bit. For example some of the shortcut syntax I wasn't sure about and I knew I could do with …
Debugging Javascript in IE7
Broken Javascript in IE really sucks as one gets really obscure error messages and alert(); becomes your only friend, or so I thought. I've recently done quite a lot of javascript DOM work for a site …