Chris Tate-Davies

If you made a typo or a similar mistake when naming your new branch, and you want to rename it,…

So you get that annoying “The volume can’t be ejected because it’s currently in use.” message trying to unmount your…

So, I use svnX on MacOSX and I find DiffMerge a much nicer application than the default FileMerge, but I…

So, trying to use a Linux Mint laptop and Plex for a lower power consumption server seemed a good idea,…

So, quick and simple MySQL backup in a CRON. #!/bin/bash _hour=`date '+%H'`; _user="root"; _pass="thepassword"; _dest="/srv/backups/daily/"; mysqldump -u $_user -p$_pass --all-databases…

If you have large JSON files with application settings in, you need to be sure that the settings only appear…

Simple function for using in_array() with case insensitive querying. function i_in_array($needle, $haystack) { return in_array(strtolower($needle), array_map("strtolower", $haystack)); }

If you need to backup your SVN repositories, then you can use this bash script to do so: #!/bin/bash DATE=`date…

In most MySQL GUI’s that offer the ability to alter the table definitions of a schema, if you add a…

I recently had to create a site for an education facility, and they turn on Compatibility mode for all their networked…