Jon Simpson’s Weblog

I’ve taken up managing my deployed web applications with subversion, similar to how I manage my wordpress installs.
However, a new issue arises. The source code to my apps is not neccessarily a public domain, open source deal (like Wordpress), and there is nothing to stop someone going to http://example.com/.svn/ or http://example.com/some_directory/.svn/ and poking around at [...]

In continuation of the theme ‘using my blog as a personal notepad’, here’s a small snippet for use in an Apache .htaccess file to ensure that visitors/incoming links not using the www. form of your site’s domain are redirected correctly.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.co\.uk
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]

Make sure to escape periods in the RewriteCond line with [...]

Did I mention I really like maintaining Wordpress installations with subversion already?
svn switch http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.0.1
One command to perform a no-pain, no-hassle update to Wordpress 2.0.1. Great!

Having had multiple copies of Wordpress installed on my server since the 1.2 version, I’d grown increasingly sick of the upgrade process (mostly involving removing every single non-customized file, replacing it with its new equivalent, then trying to merge the changes gracefully).
For a weblog or two, that procedure might be acceptable, but when the [...]

This is fast becoming a trend, but this post is directly in response to a number of posts by Matt regarding the UKC CS department’s website. To give some context to my own take on this, its worth noting that my business is heavily based around various web applications and web sites, and I have [...]

So Matt’s been blogging recently about the options faced by people maintaining several reasonably sized web sites. I figure I’ll add my 2 cents on the issue, if only to follow up on my earlier post about the joys of dedicated server-dom.

Ok, so Google Talk is the latest and greatest thing coming from the search behemoth. No doubt it’ll spark a share price rise, along with tense speculation of a Google entry into VOIP or anything else related to instant messaging or the service itself (as such hysteria has become commonplace surrounding the Mountain View based [...]