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The Oxford Comma
Here's a little function I wrote today because I needed to be able to turn a list of between one and three items into a string like 'apples, oranges, and pears', 'apples and pears', or just 'stairs'.
I figured I might as well handle everything in one place, and throw in the option to have an 'or' instead of an 'and'. There may be occasions you don't want the Oxford comma, but I can't think of any.
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Using Constants For Permission Names: WHY?
I keep seeing this sort of thing in so many modules:
define("MY_MODULE_PERM_ACCESS_WIDGETS", 'access widgets');
// Names changed to protect the guilty ;)
Am I missing something, or is this utterly pointless?
Setting Up Git And Gitosis On CentOS 5.2
This article is a tweaked version of several tutorials around. Many of the original links courtesy of Adrian Simmons. Thanks to all the others who gave me loads of help in IRC and thanks to Jerad at Lullabot for inspiring me to dive in to Git with this article.
Sharing An NTFS External Drive On A Linux Network With NFS
For my own sanity I'm blogging this, since every time I have to do it I end up jumping through the same hoops and cursing myself for not blogging it!
I have a USB external drive on one of my machines. I want it shared across the network. It's an old Windows drive formatted as NTFS. Here are the steps:
1. On the "server" install required services and applications. As root:
$ yum install nfs-utils ntfs-3g ntfs-config fuse
FUSE should be there already, but just in case. The GUI for ntfs-3g is optional.
2. Make sure the NFS services is enabled and loads on boot:
Panels 3 And The 960 Grid System
This post was going to be longer, but I just lost the entire completed document because the worst (and probably most expensive at $15/day, yes DAY) mobile Internet provider in the world, EVER, just dropped my connection mid-submission and for the zillionth time today. So you'll have to make do with an angry and hurried synopsis of what I would've written.
Installing 3G USB Modems On Linux
So, last night I lost not inconsiderable amounts of time and sleep to a Vodafone Italy 3G USB key. Trying to get these things set up is supposed to be fairly straightforward, however the end-to-end process is not really documented anywhere, as far as I can tell. Maybe for individual devices, but not in any generic way.
Since this is the second time I've done this now, and in both cases it was a pain in the ass, I am documenting some generic steps so I don't forget what I need to do all over again!
