Techmale

One of my bug-bears for years has been the lack of auto-completing in the windows CMD promt.
I have always used *nix tools like cygwin to provide this.
Now I find out that this has been built in for years….
It was simply disabled.
The fix is very easy. A Registry edit:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Command Processor/CompletionChar= 9
Thats it.
This is a microsoft fix. [...]

I thought I might add another simple tip.
When I am messing around with a wesite… I spend a lot of my time creating, editing and manipulating the databases.
Any commercial Hosting Service, worth their salt, will block port 3306 to mysql.
It is a simple and basic security measure, that must be left in place.
So I [...]

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 I tried WinCacheGrind, but as it is two years out of date, I wished to try KCacheGrind as well.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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

WPvideo 1.10

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And Randal Schwartz with more details about using GIT

WPvideo 1.10

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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 [...]

If you are trying to understand the eBay communication APIs, then you have commited yourself to a BIG leaning curve.
As I have walked the walk already(I worked for eBay), I hope my experiences can help those who follow me up this monumental path..
All eBay programming APIs are designed to talk to the exposed eBay services. [...]