markomedia Blog Feed - November 2009

Recursively remove .svn directories from your project

Marko Tomic — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:06:21 +0100

Occasionally I find .svn directories in my old projects that are not in Subversion. The quickest way to recursively remove them is to run the following command:

{xtypo_code}find . -name .svn -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf{/xtypo_code}You need to cd into your project directory before running it.

You can also run the command to quickly disconnect your project from Subversion.

Installing Tigase Jabber Server using console installer

Marko Tomic — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:50:54 +0100

Couple of months ago I installed Tigase server on my laptop and it was working beautifully until this morning. I've installed quite a few major OS updates on my laptop since then and I must've done something to upset Tigase. I visited Tigase Website to download a fresh copy of the server and see what the command is to install it using console. The Website seems to be in the middle of some sort of upgrade and many links appear to be broken. Thanks to Google cached search results I managed Read More...

Generate Self-Signed SSL Certificate - HOWTO

Marko Tomic — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:12:45 +0100

This is another one for my reference. I've had to generate a self-signed SSL certificate quite a few times and I'm sure I'll do it again in future. First of all, self-signed SSL certificates provide the same level of security as any other commercial ones, such as Verisign certs. The 2 main differences are:

1. Self-signed certificates are free
2. Self-signed certificates are not recognised by web browsers by default. They need to be installed in browsers manually in order to Read More...

SSH Tunneling - Add secondary address to your loopback interface HOWTO

Marko Tomic — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:14:44 +0100

I'm writing this one for my own reference because almost everything I do for work, is done through SSH port forwarding. If you're not familiar with SSH port forwarding, you'll have to read up on it elsewhere. And the reason why we use SSH port forwarding is because it is secure and powerful.

I generally set up my port forwards to run on my local computer on an arbitrary port and configure SSH to create a proxy connection to the normal port on a remote computer. Then I configure myRead More...

MAMP vs Entropy PHP on OS X

Marko Tomic — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:15:36 +0100

Following my post on Snow Leopard Gotchas, I discovered another problem you might run into. SL comes with currently the latest version of PHP 5.3.0. However, not all PHP projects will play nice on v5.3.0. What you could do is:

1. build and configure an older version of PHP from source - e.g. 5.2.11
2. Install Entropy PHP (note: this will modify your SL Apache config files).
3. Or just be lazy and install MAMP (Macintosh, Apache, MySQL, PHP) in a few seconds.

I choRead More...