the online home and (not very) alter(ed)-ego of Ann McMeekin, photographer, printmaker, knitter, shoe obsessive, petrolhead
and User Experience Architect.

Setting up local Subversion for use with Coda and MAMP

Posted on: August 29th, 2009 | Filed under: shares | Tagged: , , , | 4 Comments »

I spent most of last year using Subversion via command line at the request of the client I was working with at the time.

Because I’m geeky in a different way to those who are comfortable in commandlineville, it was all set up for me, and all I had to cope with were the commands to check out, check in, and occasionally, resolve a conflict.

In time, I got reasonably comfortable with those commands but I had no real idea how to go about setting up Subversion (or any other version control system) for myself, and haven’t had or felt the need to do so until now.

I had hoped that I’d be able to find an easy to follow tutorial online, but either my googlefu has failed me, or it doesn’t exist. What I did find were several tutorials that assume that you’re comfortable with the command line or that you know how subversion works and what to do, and that isn’t me, so I figured I’d set out what I did, in the hope that it might be helpful to a) someone else and b) me, when I come to do this again and realise I’ve completely forgotten what I did.

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Testing Wordpress for iPhone

Posted on: August 14th, 2009 | Filed under: is | Comments Off

I’d heard good things about the Wordpress iPhone app so I thought I’d check it out.

So far, so good. It may even help get me writing here more often.