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How to be an Awesome Open Source Developer

I’m a big fan of open source. Capitalism is awesome, but it inspires and encourages greed, so it’s nice to see somebody defying that system by working hard at something, and then giving it away for free.
Of course, you’re at the mercy of whatever kind of limping scrod they shove out their codehole, but hey, [...]

February 22, 2010   Posted in: php, windows  No Comments

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

Running a Subversion server on Windows

This needs to be in more places on the internet. I’m sick of googling it every time I can’t remember the stupid command.

Download the zipped up version of Subversion, and put it somewhere, say, c:\lib\svn
Create your subversion repository: c:\lib\svn\bin\svnadmin create c:\path\to\repo
Type this, and the equals sign spacing is extremely intentional:sc create subversion binpath= “c:\lib\svn\bin\svnserve.exe –service [...]

June 16, 2009   Posted in: subversion, windows  No Comments