http://www.caxy.com/blog Web design, PHP technology, Linux, and other random bits Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:24:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well, as everyone around the office knows, I don't get on the upgrade wagon that often.  I see software upgrades as being a neverending cycle meant to pull customers in and take their money, when oftentimes, an upgrade isn't necessary, because the software already works. From a hardware standpoint, this ... http://www.caxy.com/blog/2008/11/building-a-quiet-silent-pc/ A couple of weeks ago, while working on an elastic CSS layout using floated divs, I noticed an annoying problem: when using a fixed width left floated div as well as a 100% width “elastic” div, if the browser is resized and the content is scrolled horizontally, the elastic div’s ... http://www.caxy.com/blog/2008/10/a-common-oversight-in-css-fluid-layouts/ I think every coder and every company that's been around long enough arrives at a situation where for whatever reason, old code needs to be re-used. But not in a 'Hey, I'll grab this function from the site' way but in a 'Hey, we need to redo the frontend for ... http://www.caxy.com/blog/2008/05/managing-legacy-code-while-remaining-somewhat-sane/ Installing pear lets you take advantages of some really interesting way to extend PHP. This should be a fairly simple install, so we hope this helps. First shell into your machine. This is a personal preference, but if you don't have an "installs" directory, your home directory can get messy. Let's ... http://www.caxy.com/blog/2008/04/setting-up-pear-on-a-linux-web-server-centos/ So many of the posts out there about this seem to leave us hanging. This post outlines how to log in to Linux without a password and addresses some of the gotchas that seem to creep up along the way. We manage enough servers that it's nice to be able ... http://www.caxy.com/blog/2008/04/getting-authorized_hosts-to-work-logging-in-without-a-password-in-linux/ Hopefully by now you know what Subversion, aka SVN is. It's a version control system that keeps track of changes made to files like source code and documentation. It's similar to CVS, but with some major advantages. We've been using it at work for awhile, and I really like it. ... http://www.caxy.com/blog/2008/04/using-subversion-for-web-development/