Monthly Archives May 2008

Setting up my own SVN server

SVN comes pre-installed on one 1and1 hosting, but 1and1 does not run the server or apache module, so you are forced to access it using svn+ssh mode.
Edit: 1and1 complained at me for doing this, which prompting my move to slicehost, where I am much happier.
Edit2: You might also want to know how to set up [...]

Project Planning

Now that I’m finished with finals, I’m focusing on my summer of code project.
The first challenge is coming up with a name. The best so far is phpDBviz. If nothing better comes up, I’ll register a google code project for it tomorrow. This brings up the secondary question: what version control system to use? Google [...]

in the mail

Nice things keep showing up in my mail, especially recently.
First there was the unexpected gift from Google as a prelude the the Summer of Code, the book Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think, from O’Reilly. I’ve not had a chance to get into it yet, but it’s organized as a series of 38 [...]

Idan Raichel, some other music stuff

Been a while since I posted any music…
Here’s a track I got a bit ago from Rowyn, which was interesting enough to encourage me to go get the rest of the album. The album would be a bit better if it were a bit less heavy on the synths, but it’s worth at least one [...]

301 Redirects

Make my life easier…
I don’t like to have a “login” link in the template for my site here, but I do periodically need to access the wordpress admin interface from somewhere other than my own computers where it’s bookmarked.
This line in my .htaccess fixed my problem:
Redirect 301 /login http://thefire.us/wordpress/wp-login.php
Now I can access the login page by adding /login [...]