Month: October 2007
WordPress Installations & Upgrades with Subversion
If you’ve hosted a WordPress blog for any amount of time, you are probably familiar with the traditional upgrade procedure. It is fairly painless, but it involves downloading and copying files. If you have some custom files somewhere, you run the risk of forgetting one or two (like .htaccess) which might lead to undesirable results. Even when everything goes well, it still takes time to copy things around on your server.
There is a much easier way. By using Subversion, you avoid all of the downloading and copying. There are some excellent instructions for installing/updating WordPress with Subversion on the WordPress site. Once your blog installation is set up with Subversion, upgrading to a new version only requires one command–two if you make a backup, which is highly recommended.
Free Rails Book
The PDF version of Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Applications by Patrick Lenz is available for free for the next 60 days. Click over to Sitepoint to download the complete book (20MB). The book introduces Ruby on Rails to aspiring Rails developers by showing them how to build a Digg clone step by step. In the process it touches on many important concepts such as test driven development.
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