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January 2009

Microsoft links relating to Recovery from Damaged Registry

Wed, 21/01/2009 - 12:23am — devblog

How to recover from a corrupted registry that prevents Windows XP from starting

Useful for restoring back to before System Restore got trashed, it can also be used to get windows to its initial install state, if stuff gets trashed without having to reinstall.

Location of Windows c:\windows\system32\repair contains repair settings created when windows was installed.

ElderGeek http://www.theeldergeek.com/activation_workaround.htm Activation Work around

How do you avoid the Scaffold Shuffle?

Tue, 20/01/2009 - 11:42am — devblog

I have been dabbling in some of the new frameworks, a bit of symfony and a bit of rails, and one thing that hampers productivity is always having to navigate directories when switching between models, views, controllers and the like. You get a bit of that with Drupal, although in its case you are usually switching between your themes and custom modules. So many directories to be switching among all the time.

Development Log

Sun, 18/01/2009 - 12:32pm — devblog

This is an article documenting the development of this website. It is just a log of the things I plan to do and when I completed them. Trac can do it, and there some Drupal modules that can do this as well, but I will stick to this article for some time.

Task list to date
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Things to be done
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Switch to FastCGI < 10min

Do PHP and Drupal have a bright future? - A Tale of Two Blogs

Sun, 18/01/2009 - 3:11am — devblog

I was going to add Dreamhost, but I will save it for another article (after I set up my promo code).

Node Privacy By Role and CCK

Sat, 17/01/2009 - 6:35pm — devblog

One very useful module in Drupal is the Node Privacy By Role module. It allows the automatic setting of viewing and editing permissions on nodes according to the users role. It is not as fine grained as one that operates on the node and the usesr, but it is very useful for making newly created content automatically available to selected roles.

Back to Drupal, humbly, tailly, leggy

Sat, 17/01/2009 - 4:15pm — devblog

I have wanted to revive my blogging, mostly tech related stuff. My previous one got cluttered with all kinds of irrelevant stuff and made it unsuitable as a blog.