Posted on September 28, 2007
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
Posted 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....
Posted 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 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 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 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 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 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 on January 22, 2012
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
Posted on January 28, 2012
Simple one-liner that I use when I've lots of files to add to a subversion repository: for FILETOADD in `svn stat | awk '{ print $2 }'`; do svn add $FILETOADD; done