Tutorials

Instructions on how to install git on OSX, set up an account with github and contribute to an existing project on there. Its aimed at someone who has been asked to contribute to a codebase in github, but has no idea how.

A simple tutorial on install Fink and related tools.

Hints and tips on preparing a talk for a BarCamp. I go through the process of preparing my talk for BarCampLondon5 and share.

Backup suggestions for small companies who work off laptops, and in an office.

How to install wordpress on a remote server that has ssh access, or on your own local machine, using svn.

This will enable you to install Wordpress with a single line of code and update Wordpress with a single line of code, from then on.

This article explains how you set up a copy of a Wordpress site on your computer. This can be very useful if you need to find out what will happen if you do an upgrade, for testing out and playing with plug ins, and for developing Wordpress themes.
This article is aimed at PC owners. [...]

If you ever fancied building your own firefox toolbar or extension you’ll find its really easy. However, getting to the stage where you can actually start coding is less so, and its quite hard to find resources. This guide should help you.
The process is as follows:

build a test firefox profile
create your extension skeleton
install your extension [...]

A couple of months ago I explained how to set up PHP 5 on OS X Leopard - it was very easy! We also configured PHP so that the default folder was your Users/home folder, instead of Library/Webserver.
If you have lots of sites to test, you might want to be able to type a url [...]

When using Subversion with Ruby on Rails there are a couple of things to take note of.
Firstly, there are files you want to exclude from the Subversion repository, the log files, temporary files and database file. The log files and tmp files can get very large, and the database file might be different on different [...]

I was playing around with Firefox search engine plugins this evening and I decided to remove all of them from my browser. Once this is done, you can’t add any more, your stuck without any and can’t add any.
Luckily there is a solution. Find your firefox user profile (on a mac its located in your [...]