I came across this PDF slideshow from a talk on optimising PHP, it’s well balanced and fairly thorough overview.

While creating websites I often find the need to manipulate files in all sorts of ad-hoc ways.

Things that are hard to do by hand, but you don’t want to write a whole program for - you’ll just use it once and throw it away.

I just discovered a nifty little utility

Often working copies are only partially updated, this command gives a very quick command-line summary of the state of the working copy.

It’s not as rich an output as kdesvn which will colour code all the updateable files, but its a standard part of svn so should always be available.

Well the new version of Eclipse (3.4 or Ganymede) is out and I’ve been trying it out. So far I’ve just installed it, adding in the components I want; and generally trying to see what’s new.

To configure the Squid proxy server to work for subversion access you will need to tell it to recognise some non-standard methods.

Add the following to squid.conf

If you try to access a subversion repository over http while using a 3G connection from three.co.uk you may receive an error message like.

svn: PROPFIND request failed on ‘/repos’ svn: Processing PROPFIND request response failed: Premature end of file. (/repos)

This is because three.co.uk uses a proxy to interecept web traffic on their network.