I recently had to install the subversion client in a shared hosting environment (specifically Bluehost, but these instructions probably work with other web hosts as well). It goes like this:
1) Add these lines into ~/.bash_profile
export PYTHONPATH="$HOME/lib/python2.3/site-packages"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$HOME/lib"
2) Download the subversion source code
mkdir ~/src
cd ~/src
wget http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.4.6.tar.gz
wget http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.4.6.tar.gz
tar -xzvf subversion-1.4.6.tar.gz
tar -xzvf subversion-deps-1.4.6.tar.gz
cd subversion-1.4.6
3) Compile dependencies
cd apr
./configure --enable-shared [...]
I was getting this when trying to upgrade a plugin automatically within Wordpress:
Normally this would be a filesystem permission error. You have to make sure the wp-content/plugins folder is owned by the user apache is running as. However, that didn’t change a thing.
Further googling revealed that I needed to add this constant in my wp-config.php [...]
While working on an up-and-coming web service, I found that apparently Internet Explorer does not cope well with fading <table> elements using jQuery. Here’s what I was doing:
tbl = $('#primaryColumn table');
loading = $('#primaryColumn .loading');
tbl.fadeTo(300, 0.0, function() {
loading.show();
tbl.load('/contacts/{pagination:page}/' + page_num + '?ajax&search={pagination:search}', function() {
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