This step-by-step tutorial walks you through the installation of Django 1.1 with Apache and MySQL. on CentOS 5. The example VPS used during the walk-through is the popular SliceHost from RackSpace ™ The steps involved should be quite similar for any properly installed CentOS 5.x (or RedHat EL 5.x). We use the latest stable version...

Ack is a recursive grep-replacement Perl script that you can download from: http://betterthangrep.com It is somewhat similar to “egrep”, but is much smarter and has ten times nicer output format. It also automatically ignores annoying .svn files and you can teach it different file types. If you are a Drupal developer you need to put...

Even though you may find xdebug in a yum repository, due to version incompatibilities you may need to compile/install it using Pecl. Following are several easy steps to achieve exactly that: > pecl install xdebug check the output of the command above, if everything went well, you should see something like :\ Installing '/usr/lib64/php/modules/xdebug.so' install...

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=== Originally published at: The Agile Approach === In the ’90s romantic comedy that we borrowed the title from, a chain of dramatic events take place, while the main character (played by Peter Gallagher) is in a post-accident coma. Comatose sleep is a little too dramatic for this, but just in case you spent the...

The well-known approach for checking whether path exists, in Unix, is: “if [ -e $path ]” condition. However, contrary to popular belief, “-e” does not always work. The “-e” check works for folders, files etc with one exception: if there’s a broken symlink on the path, it won’t recognize that. Which makes sense: broken symlink...

There has been increasing amount of complain about how Drupal is ugly or not designer friendly yadda, yadda, yadda. Well, sure - it’s not WordPress, because it is much more complex and used for building much more complex websites. Neither do I, personally, think should it try to copy WordPress. Whilst there’s always room for...

Since “svn update” is a subset of “svn merge” you can use something like:\ svn merge --dry-run -r BASE:HEAD . (Source: http://translocator.ws/2005/10/12/svn-update-dry-run) The only downside is that ‘svn merge’ does not quite work like ‘svn update’ in the sense that you can not run ‘svn merge’ from outside the workspace. E.g. if I have several...

We all have come to love and admire jQuery for the amazing Javascript library it is. But we also have fallen in love with numerous extensions to jQuery; plugins, modules - whatever you call ‘em. Most of us, however, just use these goodies and bless the hearts of all wonderful people who make the gems...

Turn on: Preferences -> Messages -> Collect chats into a single window and restart iChat. The problem should go away.

It is only available in the top-level theme as a variable, but in case you need to derive the same value from the View object, per se, here it is: $view->display[$view->current_display]->handler->get_path();

> perl -i -pe 's/oldname_/newname_/g' `find | grep "\.module$"` Or if you want to first check the results: > perl -pi.bak -e 's/oldname_/newname_/g' `find | grep "\.module$"` which will create backup of original files. Those you can delete later with: > find . -name "*.bak" -exec rm -rf {} \; You can replace “.module” with...

Imagine a situation: you accidentally “svn removed” an entire directory tree from SVN. If the tree contained uncommitted code you can restore it from the backup, but you also need to restore things that were in the SVN. You can approach it multiple ways, but arguably the cleanest way is to simply revert to the...

People who know me know that I am the last person on earth to be a Microsoft fan. I have my reasons to be a tough critic of the Redmond company, but something that I did not expect to happen, has happened recently and giving well-deserved credit to them is due. The name is Bing...

PHP error messages are quite helpful, most of the time. Sometimes they do fall short of telling us what went wrong, however. It’s especially common when and if you use a development framework (e.g. Drupal). Frameworks often do output buffering and/or code eval()-ing, making debugger output incomprehensible. In such cases PHP’s debug_backtrace() function is a...