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Mirror an svn repository with svnsync

tom — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 17:49:28 +0000

If you like to keep all your work under svn source control, you're probably going to also want to keep a backup of your svn repositories in case of a hardware failure or some other catastrophic event. svn comes with a utility to help you do this - svnsync, which we can use to keep a real-time, read only backup of our svn repositories.

Drupal meetup, Ireland - a big success

tom — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 23:36:18 +0000

Today's Drupal meetup in Ireland was, in my opinion, a huge success with a turnout of 70+ Drupalers with varying levels of Drupal experience. Surprisingly, almost half of the people who attended were complete newcomers, many of whom had never even installed Drupal!

Aptana Jaxer 1.0 - The road to Ajax heaven just got official.

tom — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:36:48 +0000

If you've ever tried creating an Ajax application, you've probably run into one of the most common problems that face Ajax developers. How do you get the JavaScript that's running in your clients browser to interact with your server-side scripts?

Drupal 6 media streaming with Dash Media Player

tom — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:30:15 +0000

Several weeks ago I took a fairly in-depth look at the current video streaming options available for Drupal 6. Shortly after I published the article, a new product entered the market - Dash Media Player. Dash Player is the creation of Travis Tidwell from TMT Digital, also the developer of the FlashVideo module for Drupal.

8 reasons to choose Linux for your next OS

tom — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:10:37 +0000

I've been using Linux for several years now on various web servers, proxy servers, home servers and more, but I've only recently started using it on my personal laptop (unless you count Mac OS X as Linux - which it basically is).

1 month of service - CodeGobbler's first month site statistics

tom — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:15:19 +0000

It's been exactly one month since I first started CodeGobbler.com and I thought I'd share some statistics from my first month of semi-professional blogging.

The first month of CodeGobbler's online presence has been an interesting one, and I have heard nothing but positive feedback from around the blogosphere. It's been a month about trying things out and exploring new ground.

Vertically and horizontally center a div using CSS

tom — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:02:13 +0000

As a web designer, I'm often asked to center content on a web page, vertically as well as horizontally. This is often referred to as 'the letterbox effect'. Back in the day, when we all used tables to mark up our pages, this was a pretty simple task.

5 Drupal SEO modules - essential modules for all sites

tom — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:10:07 +0000

Out of the box, Drupal SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) is pretty good. But there's definitely extra work that you can do to make it even better. In this short article I want to focus on a selection of Drupal SEO modules which provide fundamental enhancements that I think should be included in the Drupal core itself some day.

One form, many uses - server side jQuery with Jaxer

tom — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 03:09:33 +0000

I'm sure many of you have had to do 'corporate reviews' at work. You know, you get given a form and are asked to grade yourself on various aspects of your job. You fill in your parts of the form and then give it to your employer who fills in the rest. After doing so, he probably photocopies it, gives back to you for reflection, and then proceeds to make some private notes on his copy.

Nginx proxy to Apache - access remote host IP address using mod_praf

tom — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 06:48:31 +0000

These days it i getting more and more common for people to use a lightweight webserver such as lighttpd or nginx as a frontend, and proxy to an Apache backend if they really need to.