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Category Archives: windows
How desktop.ini saved me from myself
When working at “the triangle” we used junction points on windows to link to repositories that we needed to run the code base – but weren’t necessary for the project. (see creating junction points on windows with linkd.exe.) The problem … Continue reading
Automatic Backup with SVN on Windows
A while ago, I decided that I needed to have a better backup solution for my file server. After doing some research on various systems, I let my inner programmer take over – in addition to my desire to NEVER … Continue reading
Convert from VMWare Player to VMWare Server
At superdev, we have a distribution of a gentoo image made with vmware workstation. This works fine in vmware player – but not the free vmware server – and I wanted to have vmware server running so I could have … Continue reading
Dig for Windows
For those of us who develop on windows, we can sometimes feel linux tool envy. One particular tool is the ‘dig’ command. Well, luckily, you can get this to run on windows easily: Download Bind from ISC Visit the www.isc.org/sw/bind/index.php … Continue reading
XDebug and Eclipse PDT on Windows – From Start to Finish
XDebug and Eclipse PDT on Windows – From Start to Finish With our recent upgrade to php at “the triangle,” I felt it was time to start working on using a debugging and code profiling tool. When I say felt … Continue reading
Use MySQL Gui tools to securely connect to remote database
This particular example is going to be based on a connection from Windows XP using Putty, MySQL GUI tools and Dreamhost. Quick summary of issue: I want to use MySQL Query Browser to access my database on my dreamhost account. … Continue reading
Add Event Viewer to My Computer Right-Click
Just wanted to note this awesome registry change that you could apply to get a right-click menu on my computer that allows direct access to the event viewer in windows xp. eventviewer.reg Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 ;Adds Add/Remove to … Continue reading
Force Log Messages using Tortoise SVN
Everyone knows that standard SVN has its list of 6 or 8 standard hooks – but what if you’re 1) lazy, 2) busy, 3) don’t have access to the SVN server? Using one of the popular win32 shell integrated svn … Continue reading
Symbolic Linking in Windows?
Be careful! Those of you who are trying to emulate a symbolic link in windows have probably come across the Windows Resource Kit tool linkd.exe. This creates junction points on the file system. However, before you have to find out … Continue reading
Execute Windows Commands from PHP without blocking
When researching for my live error reporting posting, I tried running some exec and passthru command tests by starting up calc.exe. While they executed the command correctly, I got some weird results in my script … which I suppose now … Continue reading