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Upgrading WordPress via Subversion

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

David over at Geeks are Sexy has a nice tutorial on keeping WordPress installations current by using Subversion to check out the latest code directly from the Automattic repository. David’s instructions are much more detailed than the brief steps provided on the WordPress site, and also describe how to check out stable WordPress versions as [...]

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Spaces in HTML Help Project Paths

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Like so many other applications, Microsoft’s HTML Help Workshop often chokes on project files whose paths contain spaces. If you double-click a HTML Help Project File (HHP) in a location whose path contains spaces, the HTML Help Workshop throws an error when you click the Compile button and refuses to compile the CHM file. Cannot [...]

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Using Mac VPN Clients with Virtual Machines

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

If you use Parallels or VMware Fusion and a Mac VPN client such as VPN Tracker, you can share your VPN connection between the host Mac and the guest PC by setting the network adaptor to share the host’s Internet connection via NAT. This connection method also has other advantages, as the VMware Fusion Release [...]

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