I’ve been slowly migrating from my desktop to my laptop so I’ve been setting it up piecemeal.
I do a lot of work within Terminal and not having directory and file coloring drives me nuts after a while. To add colors Continue reading
The problem with setting up an environment piecemeal is when you sit down to do something, you have to figure out what rabbit hole you’d gone down when you left off. In this case, I remembered installing mysql, but usually the last thing I do when I install mysql is install phpmyadmin because it’s such a handy productivity tool. Well, there was no phpmyadmin on my system, but that could be because Snow Leopard came with PHP 5.3 out of the box which is incompatible with most of the popular PHP web applications out there. Continue reading
Delete files from the target directory that have been deleted in the source directory
rsync -avz -e ssh --delete remoteuser@remotehost:/remote/dir/ /this/dir/ Continue reading
I inherited a number of web servers that had been installed and configured by different contractors and am now in the process of evaluating what needs to happen to bring them all up to snuff as well as figuring out ways to streamline regular updates. Some of those web servers are still on Red 7.3 (!), the last free open source version of Red Hat. They’re quite old in server years. Additionally I have a few other servers I set up a year ago that are more up-to-date running Ubuntu 8 LTS, but the Apache version is 2.2.11 and 2.2.8. Our security scanning service notifies me regularly that SSL v 2 must be upgraded to SSL v3, which requires an upgrade to Apache 2.2.13 Continue reading
In January, 2008 we finally redesigned our website. It was long overdue. As a matter of fact, neglecting our own sites is so common a problem amongst web developers, that some folks started up Design Deadline which offers a public review of the redesign, which we participated in. Continue reading