'Tips' Category
Updating Zenphoto with SVN
Further to Updating Wordpress, it can be done with Zenphoto too.
SVN, Subversion, is a program for managing revisions (or versions) of software. In the way we will be using it, every time the zenphoto developers release a new version on their website, they tag that code in their svn repository. We can then check out [...]Helium Balloons, Mirrorballs and Christmas
Note to self, don’t release helium balloons around your mirrorball/s.
Also, don’t make Christmas trees with your Jewish Joey.
So Roverball was fair awesome. The week leading up to it was pretty busy, but everyone had a great time on the night. Not sure about the budget as yet though. Some photos are at the GRovers [...]Don’t use your ISP email - Part 2 (What to use instead)
The solution? Use an email address you have control over. Ideally, this would involve registering your own domain name and getting yourself some hosting. From what I can tell, Godaddy offers one email address just with a parked domain, so you wouldn’t even have to organise hosting. When you buy a domain and some hosting, [...]
Don’t use your ISP email - Part 1 (Why not?)
When you sign up to an ISP they generally provide you with a free email address. DON’T USE IT!
Why not? It’s a perfectly good email address right? Wrong! It’s actually a ploy to make you stay with that ISP.
Consider that in a couple of years time, your ISP increases its prices or adjusts their [...]Associating files with no file extension on Windows XP
It seems file extensions aren’t so much of a requirement on Linux, and through my various Mozilla experiments I tend to end up with a lot of files with no extension. Windows doesn’t let me associate them with Notepad (actually my notepad.exe file is Notepad2, but that’s another story) and makes me right click and [...]
Updating Wordpress via SVN
Updating Wordpress via SVN is about a million times easier than updating it the old way.
The one problem I have with that guide is that it directs users to use the trunk version of Wordpress from SVN - this is in fact very dangerous and can cause all sorts of pain.
I would instead recommend [...]