Yearly Archives for 2004
Subversion tricks
2004 Dec 29 at 00:51 » Tagged as: rcs , subversion
Subversion continues to dig up new tricks from dark recesses up it's sleeve to befuddle the unwary. ...
opendarwin on pearpc
2004 Dec 19 at 20:30 » Tagged as: rcs , virtualization
Having installed PearPc a couple of days ago, I decided to have a go at installing opendarwin as a g...
subversion dump and restore
2004 Dec 12 at 05:05 » Tagged as: rcs , collaboration
Subversion is full of surprises, whenever you start to think 'I am finally getting the hang of this'...
Mother Board Stew
2004 Dec 1 at 04:22 » Tagged as: rcs , motherboard
It's been two weeks since my last post, I have been down with indigestion caused by Mother Board Ste...
Subversion
Many moons ago, I downloaded subversion because I had messed up the CVS installation on my computer ...
Rad Upload and HTTPS
2004 Oct 13 at 19:57 » Tagged as: rcs , rad upload
There was a new release of Rad Upload yesterday, this is th first new release after a period of more...
Wiki
2004 Oct 10 at 11:04 » Tagged as: wiki
The site with the lamp has finally been 'wikified'
If you are a frequent visitor here yo...
Time for a kernel upgrade
The time has come to upgrade my kernel from what it is now (2.6.5) to the latest version (2.6.8). Si...
Making a Wiki
It's been an year since I first tried out the mediawiki project. Since then I have modified/customiz...
Foreign Keys and mysql
2004 Aug 8 at 00:51 » Tagged as: mysql , constraint
Many developers and DBAs who spent their lives on M$ SQL or Oracle turn up their noses at mysql, the...
last_insert_id or currval
2004 Aug 5 at 06:55 » Tagged as: mysql , postgresql
When you are inserting data into a table that has a generated id you often need to know what the gen...
Mysql , postgres and passwords
Many developers particularly those who work in a LAMP environment use the password() function of mys...
Java 5 and PHP 5 the verdict
It seems my efforts to configure PHP 5 with java 5 support was a complete and utter waste of time. J...
Java 5 or 1.5? the plot thickens
2004 July 3 at 22:42 » Tagged as: java
I have managed to sucessfully download the J2SDK 1.5 (or is it jdk 5.0 ?) at last. (Previous attempt...
Religion: JSP vs PHP
Which is better, JSP or PHP? that's a religious questions, depends on whether you believe in god or ...
vpopmail shocker
Today I was surprised to discover that my default installation of vpopmail stores passwords in plain...
Hosting Company to avoid
2004 June 4 at 21:30 » Tagged as: hosting
Looking for the ideal hosting company? then AIT.com is one to avoid. Recently we needed some low cos...
WebCam on Linux
I have a web camera that had been gathering dust for nearly six months, primarily because I was unde...
Hello Sphinx
Finally managed to get the Sphinx 4 demos to run with out throwing a heap of exceptions. This succes...
Getting Started With Subversion
2004 May 21 at 23:29 » Tagged as: rcs , subversion
In the process of working with the Info Dancer maildir implementation, I contacted it's author Mathe...