Archive for October, 2009
Coders at Work: Jamie Zawinski
I’m reading through Coders at Work, which is basically a bunch of interviews with famous programmers. I just read the first chapter, which is an interview with Jamie Zawinski, who was part of the first team of developers at Netscape (he worked on the Unix part) and also is/was a developer/evangelist of the chlamydia of [...]
October 31, 2009
Posted in: coders at work, reviews 
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Extracting a Directory into its Own Subversion Repository
Like my previous subversion post, this is something that is a bit difficult to find on the internet.
Every so often, you realize that a project is growing too big, and it deserves its own repository. What you want is to extract a single directory from one repository, and create an entirely new repository that only [...]
October 26, 2009
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Compiling PHP on Windows 64 bit with VC9
Update 2009-10-28: added additional information for compiling on Windows 7.
This seems to one of the most difficult things for someone to explain. Hopefully this will shed some light on the subject of PHP Windows compilation and help you out.
There don’t seem to be any “Compile PHP on Windows x64″ guides, and even less than zero [...]
October 17, 2009
Posted in: php, windows 6 Comments