Recently I purchased a new home server of which I am using to backup both my iMac and MacBook Pro, I thought I’d quickly document how I achieved this for future reference and also to help others too! – Both my Apple Mac computers are running Apple MacOSX 10.7 (Lion).. Firstly we need to install […]
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We’ll I’ve treated myself again, mainly to be used for my ‘company’ work when I leave my current job in September… I’ll be leaving to work for myself and have a couple of projects on the back burner and a few customers already which is great! – I did this for my iMac so I […]
This tutorial is mainly for Ubuntu Server 12.04, meaning I’ve implemented and tested it fully on a Ubuntu 12.04 server this will more than likely work on other versions of Ubuntu/Debian based distro’s too though! So, whats this tutorial all about then… well this allows you to run your own (private) Git Server using WebDAV […]
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Two nice themes for NetBeans
Previously I used to use Notepad++ for development but over the past couple of years I’ve grown to love NetBeans and all the awesomeness of it (such as the source completion, code formatting etc. etc.) I do however miss the nice IDE themes that came bundled with NotePad++ so I did a search around the internet […]
If you have to enable remote SSH access to your Linux/UNIX server then you should secure it down by doing a few simple steps, I’d recommend doing the following:- Change the default SSH port. Disable password authentication by using Public key authentication instead. There are loads of other things you can implement to further lock […]
I thought I’d post up my solution to auto-starting XAMPP when I turn on my iMac; Although I normally develop on Linux and Windows… I have a nice shiney iMac downstairs of which I’m starting to use more and more for development. I hope this very quick tutorial is of help to some other people […]
What is Memcache ? Memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load. What is APC ? APC Cache (Eaccelerator and other similar caches) is fast but it is not distributed so you’re wasting cache and reducing possible hit rate by caching things locally […]
After recently changing my personal VPS over from a Ubuntu 11.04 system to a CentOS 6.2 I needed to setup a new git repository server of which I will be using for all of my private git repositories instead of hosting them over at Github, Github is perfect for all my open-source (non-private) project but […]
I’ve been using FreeBSD a lot more recently and have built a VPN server so that myself and some friends can play some LAN games over the web, I know you can use other tools such as Hamanchi but I thought I’d setup my own VPN as I can use it for other things too […]
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How to install Nano on FreeBSD
I just thought I’d quickly post up a post on how to install Nano (a really simple to use CLI text editor) on FreeBSD, Although I’ve tested on FreeBSD 9.0 it should work with other versions of FreeBSD too… You will find that by default FreeBSD does not come with this installed, having mainly used […]