Quite often you’ll need to password protect a web page. This can easily become difficult if you need to authenticate users that belong to groups or roles. But for just a quick password protected page, you can use .htaccess and Apache’s authentication.

You’ll need ssh or ftp access, and your server must be configured to allow [...]

Tom sent this sweet Leopard Terminal theme over to me. It’s really nice!! I’ve been using a black terminal theme for years, and just before I got this working, I was using size 14 Monaco font, anti-aliased, just for readability.

Often times during development, a PHP page will suddenly display a blank white page. For those of you who don’t know this, it can be very helpful to toggle error display to allow you to view why PHP is showing nothing.

I recently became aware of two awesome things:

Posting to my blog with TextMate Using Markdown for generating HTML

These two things have very quickly changed my coding life. I can now create more code, more quickly, and more efficiently. Also I can use my favorite text editor to post directly to my blog via XML-RPC.

Wow, I’m really digging markdown. I’ve been using TextMate for quite some time now, and I just discovered even more beauty in the bundles.

After many grueling hours trying to get Subversion working on my Leopard Server, I think I’ve finally figured out the best way to do it-at least it works well for me.