July 18th, 2008 in Linux

Temporarily changing default gid

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I was not satisfied with just chgrp -R files that were created with SVN so decided to do some research on how Linux determines which gid to assign to a file when created.

I was hoping that it was as simple as just changing an environment variable but that was not the case. However, I came across this tlpd.org page:

http://tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/sect_03_04.html

It brought to my attention the newgrp and id commands. I wrote up a quick  wiki article about this.

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February 10th, 2008 in Web

Unique Comment Notify up on Wordpress.org

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So finally got my plugin up on Wordpress.org’s repository:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/unique-comment-notify/

My submission was pending for a little bit less than a month but I can’t complain–it’s free hosting.

This is actually only the 2nd time I have played around with repositories. I experimented with svn when attempting to follow Wordpress.org’s how-to on updating it’s software. However, because of my non-traditional setup, it didn’t really work for me. I ended up using a more involved method of upgrading.

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January 29th, 2008 in Administration, Linux

Setting up time synchronization

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Wrote a wiki article on how I setup the NTP server on my Linux server and what I had to do to get my laptop to sync it’s time with the server.

Now that school’s begun, I won’t be doing many BFWorks stuff–if at all. However, I expect to have a busy summer after the semester. I plan to put more time in polishing my experiments in Facebook applications and Wordpress plugins.

I also plan to finish some of the projects I begun using Zend Framework.

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