This will be random.

Due to recent projects I’ve fallen in love with source control managers. Their handy, easy to use and have saved me A LOT of time. I set about installing my own SVN repo’s on bluehost and ran into some issues. Luckily I came cross the following which solved my problems and I thought I’d share it for anyone else who would like an SVN repo on a webhost with limited shell access.

cd ~
mkdir src
cd ~/src
wget http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/apache/apr/apr-util-1.2.12.tar.gz
wget http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/apache/apr/apr-1.2.12.tar.gz
wget http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.4.6.tar.gz
wget http://www.webdav.org/neon/neon-0.28.0.tar.gz
tar -xzf apr-util-1.2.12.tar.gz
tar -xzf apr-1.2.12.tar.gz
tar -xzf subversion-1.4.6.tar.gz
tar -xzf neon-0.28.0.tar.gz
cd ~/src/apr-1.2.12
./configure --prefix=$HOME LDFLAGS="-L/lib64"
make
make install
cd ~/src/apr-util-1.2.12
./configure --prefix=$HOME --with-apr=$HOME LDFLAGS="-L/lib64"
make
make install
cd ~/src/neon-0.28.0
./configure --enable-shared --prefix=$HOME LDFLAGS="-L/lib64"
make
make install
cd ~/src/subversion-1.4.6
./configure --prefix=$HOME --without-berkeley-db --with-zlib --with-ssl LDFLAGS="-L/lib64"
make
make install

I gave an elevator pitch presentation at the CLARITY research event in the Guinness storehouse yesterday. I’ve attached the slides I used (all 3 of them!).

achurchpresentation

I thought I’d make a quick post to recommend Docky. I’ve been using it a while now and I’m really impressed. I’ve used various docks over the years including awt, Cairo and many more. They all seem to have flaws, be it hard to use, bad GUI, terrible interaction with full screen windows or just stupidly rendered. Docky seems to do all these things well. Most docks tend to be just an excuse to make your computer look more like a mac but docky actually adds functionality and clears up space on the desktop. You can minimize all windows to the doc getting rid of the need for an extra GNOME panel. It has a nice intellihide feature which works quite well.

Anyone who likes to free up Desktop space and get the most of their limited screens should most definitely give it a go!