Since almost everyone is now programming in some complex web development framework (mine being Symfony), the days of programming old-school php (read with pages like contact_us.php and about_us.php) are basically dead.

Still, there is a time and a place for such simple applications. Just today I wrote one, but I still wanted the cleanliness of having urls WITHOUT the .php extension. The solution, as pieced together via forums is to place the following into your... [read on]

While writing a script today to automatically add files to a local repository, I ran across a curious behavior of Subversion. Specifically, while using svn:ignore on certain files, those files were then still added via the command svn add *. In other words, the 'ignored' files were being added as if there weren't 'ignored' at all. However, svn status displayed their ignored status perfectly. Here is the setup:

If you've recently upgraded to the new Firefox 3.0b2pre, you're no doubt frustrated by the lack of plugins that are enabled at this point. If you're like me, these are essential to the Firefox experience. So without further ado, let's get our plugins back (specifically all-in-one-gesture).

Step1: Enable your plugins
In Firefox, browse to the url: about:config Look for a Preference Name called "extensions.checkCompatibility" (you may or may not have it).... [read on]

Reference: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=288534

In the world of linux and Samba File Shares, there are essentially two ways to mount your SMB shares. Of course, you can always access your shares via the Places->Network dialog, where you can go to town looking through your shared drives. Of course, this has some major downfalls. Primarily, most applications don't recognize the network folders as... [read on]