Archive for March, 2008
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
I was setting up a new server for someone, and encountered this error while I was trying to build svn
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lexpat
Now, while I can do some things on that a sys admin can, I am by no means a sys admin. I have only installed svn a ...
Posted in linux, svn | 5 Comments »
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
I get a kick out of stuff like this. Add this to your .bash_profile to be greeted with the remaining space on your disk.
df -h | awk 'NR==2 {print "Space available " $4}'
This will actually change depending on which version of df you're using (i think). I get ...
Posted in awk, tips, unix | No Comments »
Saturday, March 15th, 2008
BBEdit is made by Bare Bones Software. For text editing, I've never used anything better. I swear by it. It's got absolutely amazing search / replace, regex support, shell worksheets, and the fact that I can write a plugin in pretty much any language ever made is ...
Posted in bbedit | No Comments »
Saturday, March 15th, 2008
I'm going to go through the steps necessary to install and start using Solr. I've always been interested in trying out Lucene, but I never felt like dealing with writing my own wrapper around the classes. Solr simplifies this by creating a fully working search engine as a ...
Posted in java, lucene, search, solr | 4 Comments »