Create a Linux Mint 12 Bootable USB Drive

All it takes is 12 steps to get you running with a bootable USB drive.  If you’d like to go straight to the instructions for the Bootable USB drive, click here. This past weekend I spent some time playing around with Linux Mint 12. Last week, Linux Mint’s approach to the Gnome2-Gnome3-Unity fiasco was highlighted […]

Ignoring Files in Subversion – The Easy Way

I always have an extremely challenging time trying to ignore files in a Subversion repository. It must be that I just don’t get it. To me, there should only be one parameter for ignoring a file, the file itself.  That’s not how SVN properties work, though. svn propset A typical command for ignoring a file […]

Drupal 6 vs. Drupal 7: Which Version Should you Install?

With the release of Drupal 7 on January 5th of this year, there’s a new consideration in the mix for building Drupal sites. Is this old news? Yes. The new…news, however, is that you should begin asking this question: Should I go with Drupal 6 or Drupal 7? Drupal Version 7? When Drupal 7 was […]

User Agent Man

How to demo and test mobile web applications using Chrome and User Agents to simulate a mobile device.

Installing APC on CentOS 5

There can be several issues when installing APC on a CentOS based operating system with PHP 5.3.2. These include a duplicate ‘static’ error in the zif_apc_compile_file function and some apc_regex errors. This post outlines how to resolve these issues.