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Andrey — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:17:00 +0200

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Photoblog on Drupal Rev.2

Andrey — Sun, 04 May 2008 13:13:59 +0200

This concept was slightly changed versus previous Photoblog on Drupal idea. The biggest thing missing with the new concept comparing to the previous one is lack of any user level permissions. Any kind of private content was not so popular among my friends and colleagues so it was dropped (everybody prefer email for this type of images).

New site version is out!

Andrey — Sat, 03 May 2008 18:41:40 +0200

After a few months of lazy thinking and couple of days playing with setup and theme the new version of andreys.info is finally out!

Please let me know if you spot any bugs.

Hope it will kick me to post things on more regular basis.

For those curious in Drupal setup details, there will be more information on how the new version is made in a day or so.

Delete .svn folders on your Mac

Andrey — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 13:50:52 +0100

Sometimes you need to get rid of .svn hidden folders on your Mac. In my case it was about resyncing my local working copy with client subversion repository. Everything was broken at both ends.

A couple of terminal commands to get rid of unneeded svn tracks:

cd /some/of/your/folders/
rm -rf `find . -type d -name .svn`

It will delete any .svn folders under your current.

For lazy typists: don't forget that you can drag and drop folder from finder to terminal to populate path.

Drupal vs Joomla

Andrey — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:41:27 +0100

It just came to my mind suddenly: Drupal vs Joomla = LEGO set vs Barbie set.

I will not give you a long and logical explanation here. It's just an allegory. But many developers will probably agree. Drupal is rough and blocky at first sight (but extremely configurable) versus cute out of the box and so predefined (and somewhat messy) Joomla. Or is it just about your way of thinking?

Configuring terminal to work with MAMP mysql on Leopard

Andrey — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 19:55:44 +0100

I've decided to try MAMP on new Mac OS X 10.5. Mostly because PHP bundled with Leopard doesn't have GD library (otherwise it has quite cool set of modules). The other reason that is better Marc Liyanage's PHP installer is not yet ready for Leopard.

But after backing up all my MySQL databases (around 200Mb dump) it turned out that you can't acces MAMP's mysql via terminal to restore it (or I was something terribly missing from FAQs).