Category Archives: webdev

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) upgrade problems

I’m seeing garbled display upon reboot at the login screen … also extremely high load averages when idle and logged in through ssh , display seems fine but sluggish using VNC … seems to be related to xorg and nvidia woes as usual …. why oh why can’t linux get this right finally?
Also the new [...]

Google Chrome Frame and you

Ok so Google has this plug-in that just came out for IE called “Google Chrome Frame” … kinda silly name, i know. So WTF does it do and why is Google doing this? Obviously MS is not happy about it either.

Basically its a plug-in for IE that lets sites opt into using chrome for the [...]

git + svn

git and svn make a pretty cool combo.
its probably best to start with svn and then create a git to track it , but sometimes its more natural the other way around.
suppose you start a small local project and want to track revs, git is perfect for this as there almost no setup overhead. but [...]

installing drizzle db on os x

UPDATE: these instruction might not be good to follow for now since even though it compiled and installed things are not happy at the moment.
$ /opt/local/bin/client/drizzletest
drizzletest: Could not open connection ‘default’ after 500 attempts: 21 drizzle_state_connect:could not connect
not ok
also there is better info here maybe … should have done more research fist before diving in [...]

MacPorts gotchas: staging ncurses, running mysql5 – The Pug Automatic

More mac port upgrade gotchas … sudo port -fun upgrade outdated
MacPorts gotchas: staging ncurses, running mysql5 – The Pug Automatic

new wordpress 2.6

already backed up and installed … check out the highlight reel

more info .. .
http://wordpress.org/development/2008/07/wordpress-26-tyner/

macports subversion 1.5 ssh sasl problems

so svn 1.5 is finally out with all sorts of new features, most notably merge tracking and changesets or changelists as they call them.
i had a bit of trouble getting this fully working so I’ll document a few of my findings below.
using mac ports there was already a port available last Friday only hours after [...]

happy 3rd birthday microformats!

Celebrating Microformats.org 3rd Birthday – Raw Footage from Bruce Floyd on Vimeo.

LAMP (leopard, apache, mysql, php)

## Introduction
instructions for setting up dynamic web server and services on mac os x (10.5, should be similar for 10.4)
## semi-quick semi-easy totally sweet setup (a wee bit of compile time, but its worth it … smoke em if you got em boys)
1. download and install macports from macports.org
1. make sure you have xcode dev [...]

local log files

i’m sure the ops / sysadmins can tell you more about this than i can but here’s what i’ve found out through trial and error.
i recently noticed my local logfiles growing out of control, if you have been here for a while on the same box like me you might see something similar.
here’s what i’ve [...]