Finding and hiring a good developer who can actually build and deliver a working product can be intimidating. That’s especially true if you don’t know much about what a developer does or if this is your first development project. Is the developer any good? Are they reliable? It’s tempting to just post your want ad [...]

Lots of stuff going on here lately. I converted a store from osCommerce to Magento. I’m building the hosted bug tracking app I’ve always wanted. And I switched from svn to git. Converting svn repos to git repos and keeping all of the history is pretty easy. I’ll do a post about it soon. Basically, I [...]

Running an Apache server on Debian? Suddenly find you can’t access any files in /javascript? As part of a maintenance upgrade, somehow the javascript-common package was selected for me. It quietly installs a symlink javascript-common.conf in /etc/apache2/conf.d that globally aliases all /javascript URLs to /usr/share/javascript. Why? Who knows. I’m sure whoever did it meant well. [...]