Question: How does source control work in a non-distributed environment?

At our company we currently all work on one shared network drive. The source code is not under any kind of source control, which for me is a big no-no. I’d love to be able to set up SVN and us all work of separate repositories and just commit back to a trunk or branch, but our tech manager doesn’t agree.

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Question: How does source control work in a non-distributed environment?

Getting to know you:

1. What time did you get up this morning?………………….7.30 2. How do you like your steak?………………….

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Wordpress 2.8 automatic upgrade fails

I’ve been trying to update my wordpress blogs from various versions like 2.5 and 2.7 to the newest 2.8 for a while now, but was never able to do it automatically. Every time I pressed the “upgrade automatically” button, it told me it was downloading the latest file from Wordpress, but it never got any further than that. I logged in to my site using my FTP client and found a 0KB sized file called wordpress2.8.zip in the wp_content folder, so I thought I’d found the issue – maybe the script can’t actually download the file and save it to disk because of permissions

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Ubuntu One – Taking Linux To The Clouds

I opened Google Mail on my HTC Magic this morning to find a lovely invitation to the Ubuntu One beta, woot. So I grabbed my shiny Sony Vaio laptop and fired it up, and got straight on with it

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Bing – A blip, or something more?

Now that the fuss over Bing ’s launch is already over (that didn’t last long, did it?), what is the future for it?

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Bing - A blip, or something more?

Installing Zend Framework 1.8.x on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) using SVN

With the release of the 1.8 series of Zend Framework, I felt the need to update this article , especially due to the entirely new project setup process provided by Zend_Tool. Again, we start with installing the LAMP stack if you haven’t done so already: sudo tasksel install lamp-server So now you’ve got your LAMP stack up and running, lets download the latest SVN tag of Zend Framework. At the time of writing, the latest stable is 1.8.1, which I’ll use here

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MySQL 5.1.34 Upgrades on CentOS 4 – ho hum

MySQL 5.1.34 Upgrades on CentOS 4 – ho hum

So, I needed to upgrade MySQL on our development boxes today and I was met by a little surprise from the RPM program… Basically it won’t do an upgrade as the vendor has changed from being MySQL AB to Sun Microsystems, and as a result I have to do a complete uninstall and re-install manually… Ho hum, I know it’s a small issue and for the best, but it’s still a pain in the ass when something silly such as  vendor name change wastes time in what would otherwise be a quick and simple upgrade. So anyway as I’m going through it the following might be useful to you if you have to do the same any time soon

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CIFS Not Unmounting On Shutdown?

On Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) I always get an error something like this when I shut down: CIFS VFS: server not responding CIFS VFS: no response for cmd 50 mid 0 This started happening when I added a CIFS mount to our NAS box at home in /etc/fstab. Basically what is happening is that the wireless network interfaces (set up by NetworkManager in Gnome) are being shut down prior to the CIFS mount being unmounted, which causes a timeout trying to unmount… because there’s no network connection.

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Getting Around allow_url_fopen = Off

Has your host got allow_url_fopen = Off and they’re too stubborn to turn it on? Like 1and1 ?

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