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Stumbled across this little tidbit of helpful information the other week while setting up a version control server at work.  Using Subversion on a Mac OS X Leopard Server you need to enable all of the dav_mods in the httpd.conf just enabling the dav_mod_svn will produce an error when starting apached
LoadModule dav_module libexec/apache2/mod_dav.so
LoadModule dav_fs_module libexec/apache2/mod_dav_fs.so
LoadModule dav_svn_module libexec/apache2/mod_dav_svn.so

I initially tried getting this to work about 6 months ago and gave up.  There are a few good tutorials online but they all neglected to mention the above piece of information.

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Released this today, I fixed a few bugs and actualy came up with instructions that make it work ;)  And more imprtantly I tested it before sending it into the wild this time.

Do these to make it work the way I intended it to work.

1. install plugin,
2. enter your church code, and a data exchange user
3. Disable  Auto Create Users

Step 3 is needed so Joomla only authenticates against your F1 database and doesn’t create a local joomla user.

plg_f1authentication

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A few months ago I wrote an authentication plugin for Joomla 1.5, that uses Fellowshipone weblink accounts to login to a Joomla 1.5.x website. I was planning on integrating this into the next version of our church website but it looks like we may be abandoning Joomla altogether. I wanted to put this out there for anyone else to use.

Download it Here
plg_f1authentication

Mark

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Apple Ad Time Traveler

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I spent the last few days rewriting a login flash app in php.  It was quite fun and still needs a little tweaking but the end product is pretty decent and is much more reliable actually authenticating.  Check out the comparison videos:

PHP/Ajax Login

Flash Login

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The one thing my wife loves to hear me say, “it’s outdated” when it comes to technology.  I had the opportunity to use that phrase over the weekend when I was at the Apple store picking a new case for my 1st gen iPhone.  They had a whopping 3 cases for me to select from.  Where as the 3G model had at least a dozen or more.

It really amazes me how well Apple can position people to feel that they have yesterdays technology or model when it is perfectly fine.  My 1st gen iPhone works great.  It still makes calls, I still play games and download apps to it.  But when you walk into the Apple store and see the next generation of your widget you instantly have the feeling of how old and outdated your current model is.

Good job Apple keep up the good work.  Too bad I still won’t be getting a new iPhone anytime soon though. 

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This is a pretty cool video of the intro of the Macintosh by Steve Jobs. It’s his first keynote

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I had fun over winter break freaking out the college kids who work for us by booting an Xserve from an iPod.  Is this easily possible by any other OS?  It took me approximately 15 minutes to clone an OS X Server install DVD image to my 80gig iPod.  Then hook the iPod up to the Xserve via a Firewire cable.  Finally select the iPod as the boot disk and restart the server.

You may be saying cool, but why would you do this?  Main reason, was because I was updating the server to Leopard server.  Leo server only comes on a DVD.  The Xserve G5 only has a CD optical drive in it.  Second, I don’t use the iPod and it was a free 80gig storage device with Firewire connection.

To take it one step further…  I wanted to do an upgrade install.  This would not work because the Xserve had a striped RAID and would not upgrade to Apple RAID 2.0.  So I had to make a disk image of the boot drive.  Copy it to the iPod.  Boot from the iPod/OSXS Leopard Install disk, destroy the RAID.  Create a new striped RAID with Leopard, then restore the boot disk image back to the drive.  Then the Leopard upgrade went off without a hitch.

Gotta love the ease of Apple products.

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I worked on this little project for work, but thought it would be nice to release this to the public.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/opendirectorygr/

Mark

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