I recently migrated from Trac (at http://recurser.com/trac/ ) to Redmine (at http://recurser.com/code/ ), and wanted the Trac links to redirect to the right place if possible. The nginx rules that follow achieve most of that. As always, there are a few catches: ...

The preference to remove these links in iTunes 7 seems to have disappeared in version 8. You can turn them off, however, in the terminal : $ defaults write com.apple.iTunes show-store-arrow-links -bool FALSE Restart iTunes, and the links should be gone.

Recently I had an SVN repository with a couple of corrupt revisions that I couldn’t figure out how to fix, which caused Trac to stop displaying revisions after the corruption. Trying trac-admin resync was no help, throwing this exception : ...

Before you do anything, go ahead and install subversion . Install the python easy install tool: ...

Unfortunately there is no .delay() function in jQuery. You can fake this, however, by using the .fadeTo() function: $("#my_element").fadeIn(1000).fadeTo(5000, 1).fadeOut(1000); ...

If you’re getting a ‘svn: Can’t find a temporary directory: Internal error’ error while using subversion, check the disk space on the server : $ df You’re more than likely out of space. [dave@dev2:~/]$ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/vg0-rootvol 73608360 73605908 0 100% /

You can use PHP’s get_browser() function to find out information about user’s browsers, but it takes a little setting up. ...

Often MySQL will need to be forced to return results in UTF8 encoding. There are two ways to do this: ...

PHP5 is already installed on Leopard by default - all you have to do is turn it on. First, turn on web sharing - go to System Preferences->Sharing and make sure the ‘Web Sharing’ option is turned on. ...

I recently had to set up a few CentOS servers with PHP , MySQL , memcached and ketama, and ended up writing this script to do it. You can grab the whole thing from subversion (you’ll need the php folder as well). ...