August 29, 2008

Honduras Photostream #1 – Playing Uno

I was thinking I might like to share some of the photos with you rather than just say ‘go to this other website etc’. So I will aim to upload a new, recent photo every day or so with a little caption. Here goes…

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Where do you do your accounting?

This might be fun.  Send us a photo of where you use Xero.  We’ll come up with a prize for the best photo. – Rod Drury.

My photo is below…
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Project Management and the Developer

I found this excellent article on project management from the developer’s point of view:
(Originally written by Brandon Ching)

Today’s post is on something a bit different but still very much relevant in the web development world: project management. Now, I’m not all that old and I haven’t been a web developer for all that long (about 6 years in total, 3 actually getting paid ;-) but I have had the opportunity of working for a medium-sized media company with a development team of about 25 developers, a small 5-6 person development company (3 developers), and as an independent contractor.

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Move data from one web server to another using wget

Recently I needed to move a large amount of data from one web server to another. I was moving about 50 websites to a new server. I didnt want to download all the data via FTP and then upload it to the new server (especially not from here in Honduras where the Internet isnt as fast as I would have liked). I didnt have SSH access to the old server due to shared hosting security issues. How did I move it all in only a few minutes?
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