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• 7.16.07 My weekend with XSLT posted in Web Design, Geekery

  I just spent a very long weekend teaching myself XSL. I don’t mean long as in more than two days, but long in that I didn’t sleep and played with this stuff for hours straight. Days straight, actually. Too long. What I’m really trying to figure out is how to get this to apply to my current design. I can now fully see the power (and limitations) of xml and XSLT, but I don’t have a lot of applications that require such a technology. So here’s what I put together…

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• 6.8.07 Moving Wordpress Redux posted in Web Design, Geekery

  Well, nothing like a comment on your blog from the creator of Wordpress to make you feel silly… It turns out my work in making it simpler to move Wordpress from server to server was somewhat in vain, considering the ability to override the database settings through wp-config.php is built in to Wordpress 2.2…

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• 6.2.07 Moving Wordpress Faster posted in Web Design, Geekery

  I’ve got a new script, but it has a very limited usage. I built it because I develop a lot of sites on my laptop using a local testing environment. In order to test my sites in VirtualBox with Internet Explorer, I have to use my local IP as the url for my Wordpress sites. Which means I end up changing the url and home address of the sites pretty often, sometimes directly through mySQL after I’ve already switched location. So here’s my solution…

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• 5.29.07 Speeeeed posted in Web Design, Website Updates

  Did you notice? The blog is WAY faster than it was yesterday. I got my CSS compressed with Marco’s plugin, my javascript optimized, compressed and re-ordered, and my pages being served with gzip compression. Man, what a difference. My page load times cut in half. Read on for a few tricks I learned today…

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• 5.7.07 Nagios: Sysadmin’s Best Friend posted in Geekery

  Nagios is one of those “I can’t believe it’s not butter” discoveries of mine. Except replace butter with commercial and add “and that I didn’t find it sooner”. It’s opensource server\service monitoring software with notification features and plugins and it’s flippin’ awesome. I slept better last night than I have in a long time…

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• 4.18.07 The TextMate Subversion Bundle posted in Geekery

  Now that you’ve got Subversion working and have a basic understanding of the command line, I’ll show you how I make life a little easier for myself. I experimented with a few graphical clients but actually found working with the TextMate Subversion Bundle to be the easiest way to go. If you need to update your bundle, see the instructions below, otherwise, jump to the second section!

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• 4.15.07 A Basic Subversion Work Cycle posted in Geekery

  Okay, so we’ve got a remote repository set up, and a local checkout. On your own you probably pointed your local testing environment to the local checkout and set up a database if necessary (importing a dump of the live database). So now let’s see how we’re going to edit our website using our new Subversion-based workflow.

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• 4.13.07 Working with Subversion posted in Geekery

  Okay, so we’ve installed subversion and covered the basics. Let’s go ahead and make our first actual repository on a remote server and check out a local working copy, as well as look at a few possible workflows to see what will work best for each of us.

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• 4.6.07 Finally Subverted posted in Geekery, Website Updates

  I finally took a few minutes and finished learning what I needed to know about Subversion in order to get my entire blog under revision control. I now have a local working copy that I can modify and test with a local database, and then when it’s working I can commit the changes to the main repository. Then I just update the live install from the server and everything is synced up. Now I can revert my changes, keep a log, and feel a little safer when upgrading. And I can work from multiple machines without getting out of sync! I’m not convinced I’ve got the ideal workflow yet, but it’s working, and I’m happy. As I perfect the workflow, I intend for it to become a part of every web project I work on…

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• 2.19.07 iDropper (New and Improved!) posted in Geekery

  After some initial bugs, the latest release of iDropper came out today. I got a patch emailed to me that took care of my SFTP problems and am now a very happy user of iDropper. I had initially purchased iDropper but had been unable to use it with my primary server due to a lack of SFTP support. Now that it’s been added (and patched up), I’m happy to promote it as a great client uploading solution.

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