Rolling Resource

I decided that it really was time I upgraded my installation of Wordpress from version 2.2.1. This is normally a really simple porcess, but not this time. Rather than overwriting the existing installation, I always start afresh. I backed up the databases as usual, disabled all plugins, downloaded the latest version (2.9.2) and then [...]

I have been asked to layout a newsletter for the local civic society as the usual person was too busy. Although I have an uninstalled copy of Microsoft Publisher somewhere, I had never used it before and wanted to find an open source alternative. Enter Scribus and GhostScript. In order to get [...]

I was recently playing with Google’s webmaster tools and ran into a problem with my custom error page. Although I have had it set up for some time, it was apparently incorrectly configured. Google complained ‘We’ve detected that your 404 file (file not found) error page returns a status of 200 (Success) in [...]

gnulib is a collection of approximately 590 routines which allow programs to be built on a cross platform basis. These are files intended to be shared at the source level rather than being a library meant to be installed and linked against so, unlike most projects, Gnulib does not normally generate a source tarball [...]

Glib is available from GTK by FTP. At the time of writing, the current version is 2.12.12 Download the source code

Connect to your server using PuTTY or some other SSH client Connect to GTK’s FTP server by typing the command ftp ftp.gtk.org Login using the username anonymous and password anon@ Change to the directory where the source code [...]