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Subversion (svn) error: “containing working copy admin area is missing”
Accidentally tried to add a folder to an svn repository with files that were already added to another svn repo. This caused some confusion for subversion and I got the error message: containing working copy admin area is missing This SO question saved me: The solution is to do: svn --force delete _dir_ On the [...]
John Carmack on Software Engineering
A very good read here from game programming legend John Carmack. In reality in computer science, just about the only thing that’s really science is when you’re talking about algorithms. And optimization is an engineering. But those don’t actually occupy that much of the total time spent programming. You know, we have a few programmers [...]
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Drupal 7 Youtube videos as fields in content type
I have been doing quite a lot of work with Drupal 7 the last couple of months. It has its ups and downs but one thing that it always tries to do is to prevent you from having to write your own code to solve problems. It gets quite annoying then when simple things don’t [...]
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Lean Startup Books
Speaking of books, I just set up a new blog focused on books about lean startup. In case you don’t know, a lean startup is an organization in search of a scalable business model. It is heavily influenced by the agile software movement. (I even wrote a manifesto for it! So far, I’ve only added [...]
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Programming books
There was a thread on Hacker News about influential books for programmers. I wrote a comment which I might as well rewrite for this blog because it’s an interesting subject. So… the answer to this question depends a lot on in what stage of programming maturity you are. The thing is, I remember the exact [...]
Startups in Sweden
Following up on my post about working as a developer in Sweden… there was a question on Quora about hot startups in Sweden and just recently a new reply was posted with a list of a few companies. The entire thread might be worth checking out if you want to work at a cool startup.
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Working as a programmer in Sweden
This blog ranks quite high on searches related to software in Sweden (gee, I wonder why ) so I sometimes get email from people who’s interested in moving to Sweden to work as a programmer. I just replied to such an email and thought that the answer might be interesting for others to read as [...]
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nginx and WordPress permalinks in subfolder
I’m playing around with nginx, a light weight http server. One of the first things I tried was to get PHP and WordPress up and running on an Ubuntu 10.4 machine. To do that I followed the following instructions. First I had to get PHP working so I followed these instructions for PHP-fpm. The next [...]
Gotcha with jsTree
If you get the javascript error: “$.vakata.context.cnt.delegate is not a function” when using jsTree and jQuery you need to upgrade your jQuery to the latest version. I had 1.3.2 and got the error, upgraded to 1.4.2 and it works fine.
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