I’ve been working with Phing lately to automate some processes and have had great success… here’s the first draft of the build.xml file… still a little crude, but functional. I will likely do some rearranging for portability. <?xml version="1.0"...

If in your web travels you install or maintain web applications, than you proabbly know the pain updates, patches and upgrading can bring. It’s not always a ‘cinch’, espically if you have custom code or integration between other applications. Wordpress is a great...

Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) is out and I’m in the process of upgrading my home server.  Thanks to the update manager, this process is a snap. First, let’s ensure the update manager is current $ sudo install update-manager-core Next, we’ll set our prompts to normal....