Creating a copied branch in SVN
To create a new branch in SVN, its very simple. svn copy <source> <destination> -m <message> This will copy the…
Discovery Enchilada Recipe
I need these all the time as I seem to have a problem remembering the amount of water to use……
How to use Nano on Unix-like systems
Nano is a basic text only text editor in Unix. It has no real GUI as such, and there is…
Accessing /var/www/ as normal user
Some useful linux commands to help with editing web pages on a server: To give access to others to my…
Stupid Microsoft error messages
Why is it that the Microsoft developers have an inability to get their systems and processes to output a meaningful…
How to use mysqldump
Using mysqldump to back up a database If you want to make a super quick backup of a MySQL database,…
Zend_Db – Performing a LIKE search
When performing a simple SQL search using Zend_Db_Select, $select->where('name = ?', 'chris'); But what if you want to do a…
Linux – CHMOD 777
Just a note, when you update the permissions of a file: chmod +777 somefile.txt This change will only last as…
Linux – Viewing Processes and Process Threads
If you need to know about viewing processes on Linux, then there is an excellent page here: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/show-all-running-processes-in-linux/ I shan’t…
Using custom sounds for iPhone SMS notification
I quickly go bored of the default iPhone SMS sounds. But its relatively easy to switch them to your own.…