Monthly Archives: May 2009

Install subversion on OS X Leopard as a revision control server for a Website

When we start to get a reasonable size team together working on a large web project we can run into problems like; one team member has the latest copy of the production code on their computer and they’ve gone on leave for a week or they, with the best of intentions, clean up the test [...]

Installing FirePHP on OS X – Leopard from PEAR

Quick tip for installing FirePHP from PEAR if you installed PEAR in ‘/usr/local’ as per the instructions in my previous post. Make sure you install as superuser: $ sudo pear channel-discover pear.firephp.org $ sudo pear install firephp/FirePHPCore

Installing PEAR on OS X – Leopard

A quick set of instructions for installing PEAR on OS X 10.5 (Leopard): PHP’s PEAR repository does not come with Leopard but it only takes about five minutes, if that, to install.

Presenting is all about presence of mind – aparently

Recently I attended a half day workshop on “Presentation skills for the 21st century”.  The two presenters, Les Posen and Dr Louise Mahler, were wonderfully knowledgeable about their areas of expertise and, as you might expect excellent presenters.

Delicious automatic bookmark posting

For a short time now I’ve had delicious automatically posting my bookmarks to my blog. Having discussed this feature with one or two regular readers I’ve decided to discontinue it. If you do have an interest in the kinds of sites I’m visiting you can still view my bookmarks at http://delicious.com/pstagg