If you have followed my previous article on "Installing subversion and trac on linux", you might want to periodically backup your SVN repos and trac instances.

Recently I had to move my Media Temple's (dv) server to new (dv) server. Their migration manager only migrated domain and database related datas, but not my previous installation of SVN+Trac. So, unfortunately I had no choice but to install them again. So, let's get to the point - How to install SVN & Trac on new (mt) dv-3.5 running linux CentOS 5.3

In CVS, $Id$ tag is probably most used tag/keyword. You can have similar effect in svn using keyword property.

Here is how you can do it:

Setting up through command-line/shell:

svn propset svn:keywords "Id" [file-name]

Recently I upgraded my gallery from 2.2.6 to major release 2.3, which was released on 2008-OCT-19. I was excited about this release mainly because of the Media RSS support in gallery's slideshow module, which is used by cooliris (formly named "PicLens") - a perfect way to watch pictures on web.

Microsoft has provided a method to build a quick Jet-Engine database on your computer without the need for any specific database software (it comes standard with Windows). Using this method, we can even create a blank Microsoft Access database without having MS Access installed!

Ever wanted to bulk update your photo gallery movie size? Now you can.

I'm basically a GNOME person when it comes to pick the desktop environment in linux os. I've been using GNOME for years with Fedora. Recently I wanted to try the KDE in my Fedora 9. So, I installed KDE from my YumEx which installed all the default and required programs for it.

Sometime you might get crazy for the authentication timeout while working with phpMyAdmin. By default the timeout value is set to 1800 seconds which is 30 minutes.

You can easily increase this limit by editing your config file for phpMyAdmin. Simply open the config file (config.inc.php) and add following config variable with increased/decreased value.