Whenever I want to do some paid work I have to do this on my laptop. I have a nice (well, sometimes we argue) 17″ laptop with a screen resolution of 1440*900 which is fast enough to run all the software I need (although Vim does play up at times…). The reason I have to use [...]

One feature of Windows 7 I like is the new taskbar. At work I’ve configured it to only show the icons and this works surprisingly well. I can easily have multiple command line shells open. However, that is work. At home I’m using Windows Vista and the grouping feature in Windows XP and Vista at [...]

After I installed Zend Server CE today I had to configure Apache to serve files from a shared network drive. Although these have been given a drive name serving files from it with Apache fails to work. By default Apache under Windows (or generally any service) is being executed as a local user. This user [...]

Something I don’t do often and always forget is how to setup msysgit to use KDiff3 as its merge tool. To get it done edit your .gitconfig and add the following: [merge]     tool = kdiff3 [mergetool "kdiff3"]     path = C:/Program Files/KDiff3/kdiff3.exe     keepBackup = false     trustExitCode = false [...]