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Using CVSSpam with Subversion
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in PHPWhen switching from one application to another, like migrating from CVS to SVN, users tend to take the switch more lightly if they find the new application looking familiar.
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Allowing External Access to Internal Services
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in DevelopmentPort forwarding sounds easier than it can be when things need to work robustly
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Strange stuff in OpenSuse
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in DevelopmentToday, I found a strange thing happening in a Suse 10 installation: There is a strange file /usr/sbin/screen in the filesystem that is not what one would expect it to be
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Code Inclusions on a Silver Plate
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in PHPLooking for code inclusions? The versatile google cluster has a solution for this, like for many other tasks. This search lang:php \secho\([^)]*_REQUEST[^)]*\); lets You find various places where some variable from the superglobal $_REQUEST is printed with echo. By the same means, you can easily find places where such a variable is directly included in…
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An alternative Approach to Tagging
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in PHPThe Term Tagging The popular feature of ‚tagging‘ content is nothing new. The average netizen should have encountered it by now. Tagging was made popular by sites like del.icio.us and flickr, where users can attach free-form strings, so-called ‚tags‘ to their bookmarks and images. The viewer can then use these tags to navigate through one…
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Weather Man
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in PersönlichesSomebody across the street just tried to better the weather [*] The guy came out about 5 minutes after it started raining and cleaned the outside of the window without any kind of security cord (the window is on the 3rd floor) [Update]: Now there’s two of them and it works! It already stopped raining!…
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Argentinian flavoured tip
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in PHPLast weekend we had a company workshop. I asked my boss for a tip for improving my latest piece of code. Since he’s a funny guy and spent a lot of time in Argentinia, here’s what i got:
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SCAMP
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in PHPApparently SCO is trying to push it’s OS with a new Product – SCAMP, a LAMP-like combination of OpenServer, Apache, MySQL and PHP/Perl. Unfortunately for them the abbreviation is already an english word. Leo says in german it’s „Schuft, Spitzbube“ as a noun and „pfuschen“ as a verb. Should this tell us anything about the…
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Troubletickets
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in DevelopmentAutomatic replies to tickets can be a nuisance: Dear [Customer, we], This message concerns your [Company that sold us an IDE] Enhanced Support ticket #159304, titled „Inspector“. You have still not approved the solution offered to you by [Company …] Support for this ticket. Please close this ticket, or escalate it if the solution does…