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Setting and updating svn:ignore 21 Apr 2010 | 02:56 pm
I’ve found the command line to be the most reliable and simplest way of managing subversion repositories, but also found the svn:ignore property a little more esoteric to set up than I’d like. svn:ig...
Drupal: what to do when tables won’t install during module development 10 Nov 2009 | 11:12 am
Drupal’s module installation system makes it very easy to extend and customise Drupal sites and to disable and re-enable modules quickly and non-destructively. However, the default way Drupal’s treats...
18 months on – stats for this site 16 Sep 2009 | 04:01 pm
In the interests of the entire internets (ie: me) I now post some stats from this site, which has been “active” (in the very loosest sense of the word) for about 18 months. First up, top 17 posts: J...
5 MySQL tricks you may not know 16 Sep 2009 | 02:55 pm
1. Produce terminal-friendly output Occasionally you may be using the command line and find yourself limited by the size of either the table you’re getting results from or by the size of the terminal...
Drupal: Creating custom node templates 28 May 2009 | 02:34 pm
It has somewhat of a steep learning curve, but Drupal is amazing for allowing you to build flexible, complex websites with lots of functionality in very little time. For a site I’m working on, we had...
Safari / Google Chrome / webkit CSS filter 27 May 2009 | 03:30 pm
Firefox, Opera, and webkit based browsers (Safari, Chrome) are all purported to be the shizzle when it comes to standards support, but that doesn’t mean they all render the same. This following CSS c...
Subversion & Samba – “Error bumping revisions post-commit” 22 May 2009 | 02:56 pm
I ran across some odd Subversion / Samba errors lately. It seemed whenever we added an image or non-text file to the repository, we were getting the error: Commit succeeded, but other errors follow: ...
Thoughts on an open messaging platform 8 May 2009 | 02:57 pm
Twitter in the microblogging world now has the pull of Google in the search world – if you’re not ‘on Twitter’ you’re nowhere inn terms of being able to connect, share and promote via microblogging (s...
Why cloud-computing is the future (or: ‘How the cloud ate my laptop’) 6 May 2009 | 03:05 pm
The Present Netbooks have been a game changer in the connected world. The arrival and staggering popularity of Netbooks has turned the PC manufacturing world on it’s collective head. This is not an ...
Solving the Drupal ‘White Screen of Death’ error 29 Apr 2009 | 03:41 pm
There’s a great run-down on Drupal.org on how to troubleshoot the dreaded Drupal ‘White Screen of Death’ (WSOD). This seems to happen every time I add a site to our test server – I find increasing th...
