Monthly Archives: June 2008
- June 28, 2008
- Pastebin – perfect for code collaboration
Have you ever pasted code you are working on to a colleague over IM or even email for some help or an opinion? Then you would benefit from using pastebin (free service) particularly if you experienced problems with code over IM in the past
“Pastebin is a tool for collaborative debugging or editing”
What that [...]
- June 23, 2008
- New FarCry “core” site
The guys at Daemon have been busy of late. With the conference just barely over I just noticed they’ve found the time to launch a new site at http://www.farcrycore.org/ for all your information needs on the FarCry framework.
Includes documentation, downloads (for the new version 5!) and more, go and take a look and try it [...]
- June 20, 2008
- Careful when sharing code sent from an IM client
Ok this is a warning to all those who get sent commands to use via IM.
Scenario:
I was helping someone setup their Apache config today, so I copied part of my VirtualHost block to them in an IM client. Then I went to their machine, grabbed the code and pasted it into their .conf file. Then [...]
- June 19, 2008
- FarCry – Finding a page by ‘typename’ somewhere above the current page
Note: This is for FarCry v3 which is a bit old now but should work for v5
Sometimes when using FarCry I have a need to find an occurance of a page “type” which sits somewhere above where I currently am in the the navigation hierachy.
Say I want to find the “VehicleType” page (which [...]
- June 14, 2008
- Does your bank do online statements?
I’m a lucky member of the teachers credit union, lucky for many reasons but just one of them is that they offer online statements. Meaning you get no correspondence via traditional mail.
They are also donating $1 into the Teachers Environment Fund for each member who signs up for e-statements.
Ask yourself, do you really need all [...]