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Subversion Changed Files

svn diff -r REVNO:HEAD –summarize Just replace REVNO with the start revision and HEAD with the end revision if you don’t want it to be the latest revision. (Snippet from: http://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2008/09/15/svn-tip-get-list-of-files-changed-between-revisions/)

Posted in Version Control

Asterisk Setup

So, I have always wanted to play with Asterisk (the Open Source VOIP Solution) but never had chance to put any of my learning into practice. That is until today. A company I often pick up work from are looking

Posted in Computing Industry, Linux Scripting

HTML5 Placeholder Support for IE6-8

It winds me up when creating awesome sites that use the Placeholder HTML attribute, as then I have to use a Label to show the name of the field instead to make this accessible for IE6-8. As an alternative to

Posted in jQuery

Linux – Create ISO from CD/DVD

I needed to setup a VM, and VirtualBox was complaining that it was sticking when running direct from the disk. I therefore found the following: cd /disk1 dd if=/dev/cdrom of=WindowsXP.iso Where /disk1 is where you want the ISO to be

Posted in Linux Scripting

Tracking Down DDOS Attack

Over the years I have spent a fair amount of time tracking down scripts that are performing DDOS attacks on other machines. The latest this weekend were a number of Perl scripts that had been uploaded, and were being used

Posted in Linux Scripting

Plesk – Retrieve FTP & Mail Details

I am often tasked with checking something out over FTP, or retrieving a customers mail details. The shared hosting servers I use all use Plesk, which makes it fairly easy! Change to the Plesk Database USE psa;   Check FTP

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Posted in Linux Scripting, MySQL, Programming, Random

GD Library Circle Corners

Ok, I have been working on a number of projects over the last 3 months or so which use the GD Library. While I do not confess to being an expert by any means, I’m starting to get into the

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Posted in PHP

Subversion Merge

I always forget how to do this and am forever having to search my history for various versions of this. On a number of projects I now use Beanstalk as a Subversion Repository, and work on a branch when developing new

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Posted in Linux Scripting, Programming

IE: This tab has been recovered – jQuery

I have recently put a new dynamic edit screen live at work for our clients; and have been having a lot of phone calls with people reporting “issues” and “being kicked out”; this baffled me – and I put it

Posted in Programming

.htaccess to avoid Canonical Issues

I have had canonical problems previously where Google detects a site as multiple sites, and therefore you don’t get the full impact of the site (as Google see’s this as duplicate content on 2 sites). I have seen some pretty shoddy

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Posted in Linux Scripting