Nov

4

Debian Lenny: updating to SVN 1.6.4

November 4, 2009 | 2 Comments

Working with Windwos users on my SVN repository, I needed to upgrade SVN to match with their Tortoise version. Here are the steps to do so:

add the line below to /etc/apt/sources.list
1deb http://www.backports.org/debian lenny-backports main contrib non-free

get the public key from lenny-backports running the following command
1wget -O – http://backports.org/debian/archive.key | apt-key add -

run aptitude update
install subversion [...]

Nov

4

Open Flash Chart, IE6 ad SSL: dangerous mix

November 4, 2009 | 1 Comment

I recently used Open Flash Chart to display statistics in a PHP based application. The library proved pozerful and easy to use. When the development was completed and moved to the production server (over https) the charts failed to display for IE6 (and Safari) users. Instead, the browser would try and download the page as [...]