Keith Bentrup’s Portfolio

I’m on a simplification kick, and I’ve been dramatically reducing the clutter in my life and enjoying the results.
I recently noticed a good deal on a drive at Microcenter and thought “Why keep 5 external drives (1.3 TB total, 5 usb cables, 5 power cords) when a single drive (1.5 TB, 1 usb cable, 1 [...]

The fastest download is no download, so I was trying to prevent even the 304s (last modified requests & responses) on a recent project. It had been a while since I had to configure Apache for this, but here was the start of a .htaccess file:

<FilesMatch “\.(ico|pdf|flv|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|js|css|swf)$”>
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresDefault “access plus 10 years”
</FilesMatch>
# compress [...]

wget can be a very handy tool during development. Combine wget with other *nix utilities (like time and cron), and you can write some very useful scripts/snippets. For example,

wget -p -H -nv http://www.my-domain.com/cart/ 2>&1

uses -p/–page-requisites to download all the files necessary to render the page while -H causes it to span domains if necessary. [...]

So I was having problems backporting some changes to a fork of our platform today. WinMerge kept reporting files as different in the summary view, but displayed no differences in the file comparison view. I looked closer and noticed the character sets were “different”.
A developer on the team had started saving files in the repository [...]

I sometimes keep and share development related scripts in the repository, but by default, svn will not remember file modes. To set the script to execute, simply type:

svn propset svn:executable ON myfile.sh

In TortoiseSVN, just set a new property on the file: