The release of the FitPC2 brings us a step closer to a ideal workstation:
- Small (101 x 115 x 27 mm)
- Environmentally friendly (8W at full CPU load)
- Powerful (Intel Atom CPU)
- Silent (fanless)
- Cheap (from US$245)
and of course
Fit PC2 – Do not swallow!
SVN update made easy
PHP Subversion Updater
In our company we use Subversion for version control.
Using a GUI for Mac gives our more graphical team members easy access to common tasks, such as committing changed files to the repository.
However updating the working copy on a (test-) web server still requires knowlegde of a unix shell and having to log in and running it manually can be a full time position.
After doing some research I found the official PECL SVN bindings. These are still very experimental and a hussle to install.
So I decided to use the simplest solution that just executes a “svn up” on the server and does not require any server-side modification:
exec("svn up ".dirname(__FILE__), $out, $ret);
Which serves perfectly for this purpose.
Wrapping this line in a (30secs) self refreshing file makes sure the working copy stays updated.
And the best thing is:
it does not require anything, except installed svn binaries that are executable for the apache user and write access to the webroot.
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A common approach to browser compatibilty
The Situation
Its been a while since everybody stopped complaining about the standards compliancy of Internet Exporer 6. In fact there was no way of having a website that was not working in the most popular browser.
However.
Times have changed.
Microsoft revolutionises Rich Internet Applications
One of the most criticized factors of modern web-applications is their resource intensiveness.
Especially modern Object Oriented Applications, like Magento, produce huge overhead and require therefore powerful hardware.
A step closer towards a solution comes, unexpected wise, from Redmond:
Microsoft adds dynamic language support to Silverlight 2.
This enables Python and Ruby scripts to be executed on client side and offers developers to build much faster and interactive Rich Internet Applications (RIA). Reducing cost on server-side.