Archive for February, 2008

Getting KCacheGrind for xDebug on Windows with KDE

Friday, February 29th, 2008

As I am playing around with xDebug, I need a profile file GUI. I tried WinCacheGrind, but as it is two years out of date, I wished to try KCacheGrind as well.
So, how do you install a Linux KDE application on windowsXP?
As it turns out, quite easily.
Here’s how…
1. download the installer to C:\KDE4 from here:
http://download.cegit.de/kde-windows/installer/
2. [...]

Simple tricks for Windows Programming automation using batch files

Friday, February 29th, 2008

I thought I might mention a few of the simple tricks I use when I am developing…
Keyboard assigned Shortcuts
I often need to restart apache very regularly, ie: every other minute.
This is a real bore when I have to find either a GUI or and command prompt. So I set up shortcuts in windows..
I create batch [...]

How Microsoft caused apache & php_mysql.dll to fail…using VISTA (dwmApi.dll)

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

The Background
Last week I discovered I had quite a few viruses etc.. on my laptop. So I needed to reformat the hard-drive and re-install WindowsXP before I started my new job.
Now before I did all this, I made sure I had a complete back-up of everything off the machine. NB: this is my main development [...]

Eclipse Update URLs

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

I have been using eclipse for long enough to have often run into the problem of locating the update URL for any specific project and more importantly for the required bits needed to run that extension. So here are all the update URLs I know of:
* Graphical Editing Framework (GEF)
UPDATE URL: http://download.eclipse.org/tools/gef/update-site/releases/
* Eclipse Modeling Framework [...]

GIT on Windows XP (winXP)

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

I am still experimenting with this… but…
You can get GIT running by simply downloading and running the cgywin installer.
Run the installer in standard configuration, and obviously include GIT… but also make sure to include VIM, as this is required to edit the comments. (PERL is required, but should be in the default installed packages. Make [...]

Why Git

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

I suppose the first thing you should do is watch the videos.
Here is Linus Torvalds explains GIT philosophy to googleTech:

WPvideo 1.10

Download!

And Randal Schwartz with more details about using GIT

WPvideo 1.10

Download!

You should now know enough to realise why GIT….
If you are still in egypt… de nile… then here are some thinking points.
these are coming as soon [...]

Byting the hand that feeds you…