Author Archives: Daniel Skinner

Setup Subversion and Trac on CentOS 5

By Daniel Skinner | Published: January 6, 2008

Recently I set up a virtual server to use as a development machine. It runs on CentOS 5 and hosts several Subversion repositories with associated Trac projects. There are many guides and plenty of help on the net to help you setup such a system. However, when I tried to do it I came across [...]

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Trying out MooTools 1.2 Beta 1

By Daniel Skinner | Published: December 2, 2007

Whilst I commonly use Prototype and Script.aculo.us as my preferred JavaScript libraries, I recently decided to try out MooTools as an alternative.

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Zend Framework 1.0.3 Released

By Daniel Skinner | Published: November 30, 2007

Zend Framework (ZF) 1.0.3 has been released. This is the third maintenance release since the launch of Zend Framework 1.0 at the beginning of July 2007, which goes to show how quickly the ZF community is growing. Zend Framework is quickly becoming the most popular PHP5 framework, mostly due to the fact that it does not tie [...]

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Starbox – Rating stars for prototype

By Daniel Skinner | Published: November 18, 2007

Starbox: A new Prototype based rating system

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Prototip 1.1.0 Final Released

By Daniel Skinner | Published: November 11, 2007

Prototip 1.1.0 Final has now been released.

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Scripteka, Prototype 1.6 and Scriptaculous 1.8 Released!

By Daniel Skinner | Published: November 8, 2007

Prototype 1.6.0 Final has now been released on the same day as Scriptaculous 1.8.0. Scripteka prototype resource goes live!

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Prototip 1.1.0 preview

By Daniel Skinner | Published: October 29, 2007

Nick Stakenburg has just released a preview version of the latest Prototip…

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Using Prototype

By Daniel Skinner | Published: October 21, 2007

Prototype 1.6.0 overview. Introduction to Prototip and LiveValidation

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Improving Site Performance

By Daniel Skinner | Published: September 11, 2007

This article focuses on a very handy, cool, simple PHP script that can drastically improve the performance of your site without much effort at all!

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Development Tools

By Daniel Skinner | Published: August 17, 2007

This is the first in a series of posts…

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