CVS, SVN, Git, etc. - There are so many version control systems out there. Which one do you pick? For a while I used Subversion (SVN) and it worked. It was integrated into the program I use coding PHP and set me on the right track. Then problems arrived as I was hosting my own SVN repositories. I wa

Today we uploaded a project called Bugger to our labs site. Did you know we had a labs site? It's new too. Bugger is an issue tracking package that we will be using for our products. It's not complete but when it gets close we will be releasing it as a HitMyServer product. It's really basic and w

HostsEdit, what the hell? Currently I am running XAMPP to develop a web app on my local machine. The best way to test it on a simulated "live environment" is to modify your /etc/hosts file to point a domain name to your local machine. There are multiple ways to do this such as opening Terminal

With the last few projects built, I have solely used an email address for the username when logging in. With smaller internal projects it doesn't matter how you handle usernames, but it got me thinking about bigger projects. Are you a member of a social network / community that uses actual usernames

Over sometime now, using external resources on your web page has been quite common. Whether it be using an analytic package, loading jquery from the Google servers, or even loading an image from a partner company, there is an issue. The Issue Since you are calling an external resource, you are r