Graceful Exits

“This blogpost has made me feel something I haven’t felt in years!”
“What’s that?”
“My pulse!”

A hundred years from now, all code will look both similar and different.

“Never attribute to malware that which can be adequately explained by stupidware.”

Proof of concept, more than anything else: how to hook up to a recalcitrant Flash-based interface.

Simon Willison mentioned a while back a link to help on how to undo a svn commit in subversion (more a kind of internal branching than an actual undo, of course: but that’s subversion). That’s all very well, but how about undoing the log message for a particular commit?
Say you have a codebase that only [...]

After several administrative steps over a few months, we suddenly found the following error coming from an instance of SQL Server on a virtual machine:

Your SQL Server installation is either corrupt or has been tampered with (unable to load SQLBOOT.DLL). Please uninstall them re-run setup to correct this problem.

Nobody had been keeping an eye [...]

As the natural extension of Gareth Rushgrove’s bookmarklets for inserting the Dojo or YUI Javascript toolkits mentioned by Simon, here’s a tidying-up of a bookmarklet I’ve been using to bring in any Javascript using user input via a popup prompt:
Insert-JS bookmarklet

javascript:void(function(){
  var%20s=document.createElement("script");
  s.src=prompt("Full%20URL:");
  document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(s);
}())

I was originally appending it to the body as an invisible div, making use of [...]

Say you want to see both the log and diff of a given svn version, just the differences between it and the previous version, plus log message (i.e. what was committed, and why, for version NUM) The following will work at a bash command prompt:
$ r=NUM; rr=-r`expr $r - 1`:$r; svn log -r$r; svn diff [...]

My parents-in-law own a cottage in a place in France called Pont Camarel. They asked me to build them a site. I did. That’s it.
(It’s maintained by the creaky old php-update system, which is awful; development of the site wasn’t helped by the system’s maintainer taking all the old forums down while he rebuilt it [...]

KentBye, Flickr user, has been playing with GraphViz. He’s used it to turn an XDebug output into a pretty visualization of Drupal’s call stack, or what functions call what functions during a typical Drupal request.