Archive for July, 2008
Tuesday 22 July 2008
The motto of the Wombles of Wimbledon common, from the books of Elisabeth Beresford and children's TV show of the 1970s, was to "Make Good Use of Bad Rubbish". Why have I mentioned this on a technology blog?
Well recently I have been refactoring one of our php applications, in the ...
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Friday 11 July 2008
Having recently installed a new copy of media wiki I thought I would pass on a few tips towards customising a media wiki install.... There is nothing ground breaking here just a few handy hints.
The mediawiki namespace.
One of the features of mediawiki is that it allows you to edit internal ...
Posted in Tools & Toys | Tagged with hints, mediawiki, mediawiki hints | No comments »
Wednesday 2 July 2008
Yesterday we decided to deploy bugzilla to track our development bugs in an orderly fashion. It's written in perl, something I have a limited knowledge of, so I duly followed the supplied instructions.
*HINT* If like me you run a debian/ubuntu environment.... ignore the perl based installer instructions (MCAP), use apt-get ...
Posted in Tools & Toys | Tagged with Bugzilla, LDAP, MOD_CGI, MOD_PERL, Perl, Permissions | No comments »
