I’ve just released the latest iteration of my “professional” site, stevenwilkin.com.
There’s the possibility the designers I’m working with will think my design-fu is weak, but the site badly needed something as it has been barely put to use in the years I’ve owned it.
I don’t know how the Steven Wilkin web experience will evolve but [...]
The last time a new version was released I decided to update my WordPress installation with Subversion with the idea being that this would make future updates easier.
Well, the good news is that this technique works
All it took was 3 simple steps:
$ cd /var/www/sickbiscuit.com/blog
$ svn switch http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.5/ .
launch wp-admin/upgrade.php via web-browser
To be [...]
Last month I decided to invest in a VPS from VPSLink.
I had been considering this for a while, especially after my experience using an Ubuntu VPS with Infurious and after 2 power failures within as many weeks due to building work nearby to my home, my hand was forced. No more hosting on a Linux [...]
For nearly a week now I have been exclusively using an Eee PC. I promised an action shot and here it is:
Using this device I have went about all my regular activities, even a bit of web development.
The biggest hindrance I've found has been using a screen resolution lower than what I'm accustomed to and [...]
After a lot of frustration, reading of documentation and even giving up completely on certain paths of action I finally got Jabber up and running. The “Jabber burnout” as Adian called it was terrible and only now do I feel de-stressed enough to write about it.
I initially setup an installation of jabberd2 as I have [...]
As I previously mentioned, my current task as Infurious system admin is providing the team with a bug/task tracking system, namely Trac.
My initial thought was: “our server runs Ubuntu, this should be easy…â€
I could get Trac running via tracd and I could see that mod_python was working via mod_python.testhandler but the two didn’t [...]
It’s been a busy week. The lads and myself have been quite industrious, making plans and Getting Things Done.
I’ve taken on responsibility of taking care of the Linux side of things and last night finished setting up an SSL enhanced, WebDAV accessible Subversion repository, for which Aidan has written an introductory guide.
My current task is [...]