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Simple SVN Merging
10 March 2009
Read moreToday I had a big SVN merge to do - i'm at the end of a development cycle and I needed to merge my branch of changes back into trunk. I dug out my crib sheet for merging and tweeted that I had - and a few people asked me to blog …
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Speaking at GeekUp Leeds
11 February 2009
Read moreOn 18th February, I'll be making an appearance at Geekup Leeds, to give a talk entitled "Linux-Fu for PHP Developers". Basically this is a tour of some of my most-favourite command line tools available in Linux, and its a pre-cursor to the talk I'll give later this year at php …
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Locked Joomla! Content
05 February 2009
Read moreI run the website for my local netball club and when I implemented this site I chose Joomla! to run it on. It seemed like a good idea at the time, in fact I even thought some of the other club members might log in and type into the user-friendly …
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Locking Session in KDE
03 February 2009
Read moreI've been using KDE full-time long enough that I ought to know this, but I had to look it up! I was working in a shared location and I wanted to lock my session when I walked away from my machine. There's an option in the start menu but the …
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Ubuntu Launching Apps
15 January 2009
Read moreSince I started using Linux on the desktop, I've always used katapult to launch applications. However I have another machine that doesn't have katapult and (since I don't use a mouse) I've always used Alt+F2 to launch appilcations on there. Well, since installing Kubuntu Hardy Heron I notice it …
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Colourful Tabs in Screen
24 December 2008
Read moreA while ago I posted about screen, and included my .screenrc file. I got some teasing for this, since the tabs show up pink. In fact this .screenrc file is one I stole from somewhere a few years ago and didn't really think much about the colours. Since then I've …
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Stale NFS File Handle
18 December 2008
Read moreWe had some fun and games with our house server recently, when one of its disks died horribly*. I've only just got around to sorting out the backups again now, which use an external USB hard drive and rsnapshot. I started by reading my earlier rsnapshot post and also the …
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Relocating a Wordpress Installation
12 December 2008
Read moreWordpress is a fine basic website tool, and I've used it for a few different odds and ends. One thing it does have that suprises me every time is that it uses a setting for its web address. So as part of the install, it sets this setting and then …
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Girl Geek Dinner Next Week
26 November 2008
Read moreI'm getting quite excited now about the next Leeds Girl Geek Dinner which is next Wednesday (3rd December 2008). Got some cool speakers by the look of it - I know Monica (and she is fab) and from Katie's bio we are in for a treat. Also I have been promised …
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Speaking at "Beauty and the Geek"
17 November 2008
Read moreI'm giving a talk next week in a Beauty Salon. Yes, really :) There is an event entitled "Beauty and the Geek" at Heaven Spa in Didsbury - details on their blog - and the event is on 26th November. It sounds like a fun mix of beauty techniques (mouse-finger massage, anyone?) plus …
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Leeds Girl Geek Dinner - December 3rd
07 November 2008
Read moreAnnouncing the second girlgeek dinner in Leeds! The event will be Wednesday 3rd December, at The Loft Leeds and tickets are available now, priced at £15. Monica Tailor from Kilo75 will be speaking at the event, and it will have quite a Christmassy feel.
The rules of the girl geek …
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Opera's Address Bar AutoCompletion
30 October 2008
Read moreI recently upgraded the copy of Opera on one of my machines, only to find a few things about it which had changed from previous versions were driving me mad!! Immediately noticeable was that the address bar autocompletion seemed to have gone completely nuts. It was autocompleting all sorts of …