Archive for the ‘General’ Category

Does subversion support symbolic links?

Posted by michael on October 3rd, 2008 under General
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From the Subversion FAQ:
Subversion 1.1 (and later) has the ability to put a symlink under version control, via the usual svn add command.
Details: the Subversion repository has no internal concept of a symlink. It stores a “versioned symlink” as an ordinary file with an ’svn:special’ property attached. The svn client (on unix) sees the property [...]

Subversion 1.5 merge-tracking… looks awesome

Posted by michael on May 13th, 2008 under General
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While Subversion 1.5 doesn’t make it merging as easy as a system like Git or Mercurial, it certainly solves common points of pain. As a famous quote goes, “it makes easy things easy, and hard things possible.” Subversion is now beginning to match features in larger, commercial tools such as Clearcase and Perforce.

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CakePHP Routes

Posted by michael on May 9th, 2007 under General
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The documentation covering routes in CakePHP is a bit confusing, and doesn’t quite cover how you can you use paths in the URL as method parameters. I’ll cover how I used them in a recent app in this short article.
Routing in CakePHP is similar to using Apache’s mod_rewrite to give you pretty URLS, for example, [...]

10 Ways to get on to Digg’s frontpage

Posted by michael on April 3rd, 2007 under General, Hacks
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Digg is the new Slashdot, and whilst getting digged might not bring your site down like a true slashdotting, it is far cooler and carries more interweb credibility. So here are the top ten ways to get your site onto the frontpage of Digg:

Buy your diggs
The easiest way: create a fake website/blog and fill it [...]

Some tidbits

Posted by michael on March 29th, 2007 under General
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I realise posts have been thin on the ground lately, so here are a few good links to keep you busy. On a related note, I’m always looking for people who want to write articles on any (web) topic - there are no requirements, as long as you make sense and can spell, then feel [...]