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If you’re running an Apache web server and you want to speed up your visitor’s browsing you can enable mod_deflate, which has replaced mod_gzip in Apache 2.
You’ll probably find your mod_default module is already installed and available with just a couple of lines of configuration. MORE »
I recently decided to install Git on my (dv) 3.5 and found an article written by the guys at MediaTemple, my hosts, with instructions on how to do it (isn’t it nice when someone else does the hard graft for you?!) Unfortunately, the article was old and inaccurate. Luckily, with a bit of digging around I managed to get yum installed, updated and ready for Git. MORE »
If you use TextMate when you’re coding for the web you’ll probably have at least tried out Jim Jeffer’s CSS Bundle, which was inspired by an article by Jina Bolton. If not check it out!
When I first downloaded it I was impressed but not exactly blown away as the snippets don’t really leverage the true power of TextMate’s bundle system. I had to get to work to make things a lot smoother. MORE »
When I’m making a script for someone I always think it’s nice to add a bit of colour to anything output by Ruby. Not to be garish… We don’t want command line filth reminiscent of Geocities after all! But if there’s an obvious exception that ends our fun it’s good to highlight that. MORE »
OpenSSH is included in OS X and allows admins full access to all levels of a machine’s OS. However, you have to type in a password for every connection, which can be tiresome when you need to connect to 20 client machines!
Thankfully, we can avoid all this typing through a private/public key system. There is an article on creating the necessary keys on the OpenSSH website, which is easy to follow. I’m going to run through and OS X centric implementation here. MORE »
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