I have been moving dataplex.org to a new hosting provider (Dreamhost) so I had about a day long outage while I was moving the wordpress files, database, and dns records. Everything should be back to normal now, but if you can’t login or your RSS feed is messed up please shoot me an email or [...]
Sometimes I want to take a tool from one project that is under subversion and use it in another. The problem is with the existing .svn directories. Because the files are already in one repository, copying directly from there to another project will cause conflicts in the other repository.
There are quick and easy ways to [...]
I recently helped a friend out with the technical side of going “agile”. This meant setting up some project source control and automation for build and test. I have a pretty advanced automation setup on most of my projects right now. It’s far from perfect (I don’t have nightly releases being tagged, etc), but [...]
I started playing with dbdeploy on one of my php projects today because I’ve seen it used with success on another project I’m working on. The biggest differences in the projects are that one uses Postgres and the other uses MySQL. Converting all my sql scripts for table creation went just fine and they ran [...]
I follow the Whitehouse.gov RSS feed and saw a message this morning about helping out local communities. I really liked this part of Barrack’s campaign and was glad to see the continuing push for community involvement. The article mentioned the site http://www.usaservice.org as a way to get involved. I went and signed up and found [...]
