Tag: SVN


How I learned to stop being a Cowboy and Love the SVN

Posted by jghazally in development, wordpress, wp-e-commerce. 2 comments

24th March

Cowboy, you been barking up the wrong tree. If you’re editing your site, and/or your clients site live. Well then buddy your doing it wrong. Don’t get defensive, and don’t be ashamed. Till recently I too was a gun slinging, rope totting Cowboy. I always knew there was a better way to do things, I just didn’t quite understand how. Then at WordCamp NZ 2011 John Ford from automattic mentioned in passing ‘.. that if the hacked site is running on SVN you can just do an svn st and svn diff to see the hacked files..’ Which made me raise an eyebrow. I mean, I’ve used SVN for Plugin development, I’m no self-proclaimed expert but I know enough to run a Plugin on the WordPress Plugin repository but an entire site? HOW? wouldn’t that get messy if you had … Read More »



My Delicious Links (July 17th – August 8th)

Posted by jghazally in Delicious. No Comments

8th August

These are My Delicious links for July 17th through August 8th:

500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
Amazon.com: Test Driven Development: By Example (9780321146533): Kent Beck: Books –
Installing/Updating WordPress with Subversion « WordPress Codex –


My Delicious Links (July 6th – July 12th)

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12th July

These are My Delicious links for July 6th through July 12th:

Source Checkout – bp-e-commerce – Project Hosting on Google Code –
BuddyPress.org → Docs → Make your plugin BuddyPress aware (v1.2) –
Benchmarking WordPress SQL using FirePHP –



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