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Here are some of the window management shortcuts that I have discovered and found very useful having moved to working on a Windows 10 machine. Read more ⇒
Agavi: Agavi on the Azure Platform
Agavi: Agavi on the Azure Platform The next release of Agavi will have initial support for running applications on the Microsoft Windows Azure platform, as well as a database adapter for the new ext/sqlsrv driver to communicate with Microsoft SQL Server and support for the IIS7 web server, which now finally has a very nice … Read more ⇒
Samba File Share Over SSH Tunnel
This is not a post about setting up Samba shares. If that is what you are looking for then I can recommend the following book; Using Samba: A File & Print Server for Linux, Unix & Mac OS X. Sometimes you need to be able to access a remote Samba server in a secure manner from a Windows machine. This is a relatively simple procedure on an XP SP3 machine like mine linking into an Ubuntu server pre setup with Samba file sharing. Read more ⇒
A Good Windows Development Environment and Ubuntu Virtualbox
Often Linux just does it better! Often I find myself developing a Windows machine without access to a Linux development server, but I still need to access to some of the Linux binaries and features such as cron jobs, the at command and binaries such as imagemagick, pdftotext, etc. Some things can be emulated with ported binaries or through Cygwin, but I feel a lot more comfortable developing on a platform that is representative of the live server the web site will run on. Read more ⇒
Linux to Windows Server - Migrating and securing your crontab
In the PHP development arena the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) stack is very common, but once in a while a client will come through the door with a Microsoft background. So what do you do if your CMS or framework was built with a Linux base layer in mind? Sounds easy, but what if you have jobs loaded into your Linux crontab for processing mail outs or after hours records processing? Read more ⇒
Windows Cron Jobs using Scheduled Tasks
UPDATED: I have written a new, more indepth, article on this subject here: </post/2009/01/linux-to-windows-server-migrating-and-securing-your-cron.html> Every now and then you end up having to develop on a Windows box. Here are some handy hints for getting your cron jobs up and running. The user interface for the Scheduled Tasks in Windows can be found at Start > Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Scheduled Tasks. For performing cron jobs on webpages I recommend that you get the following binary: WGET for Windows Read more ⇒
SQL Server 2005 Dump to SQL statements
Say you have a development environment setup using SQL Server 2005 Express Edition and your customer has a SQL Server 2000 database accessible only via ODBC and you can only run a DB import via a script. How would you do it? Easy you might think just run msdbdump.exe on the command line, well this isn’t MySQL so you are not so fortunate. Backing up your DB is easy with SQL Server using the following commands: Read more ⇒