Archive: February 2007

Phew! Arrows in vi vim on cygwin broken Blog entry 3 years 3 weeks ago
The same as for fixing backspace key on cygwin, you can put this in your .vimrc: :fixdel This should fix backspace problem, arrows navigation and insert on last character bugs too.
Backspace in vi / vim on Cygwin broken? Blog entry 3 years 3 weeks ago
If your delete key terminal code is wrong, but the code for backspace is alright, you can put this in your .vimrc: :fixdel This works no matter what the actual code for backspace is.
NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE in samba setup Blog entry 3 years 3 weeks ago
It's been a while since i've set up a samba server, but I'm taking my LAMP off my workstation and set up on a dedicated server. Most of the configuration of smb.conf was straightforward. The Vista box took a while to discover the server (slow to do anything!) but finally showed 'server' on the...
cPanel and Drupal Multi Site with Subdomains Blog entry 3 years 4 weeks ago
Scenario: I have a Drupal Installation which I run many sites from and this would be fine if each site has it's own Domain Name (FQDN).  Normally I would just park the domain in my cPanel and create a folder /sites/example.com The problem with subdomains in cPanel is that when creating a...
Twitter in my blog Blog entry 3 years 4 weeks ago
I was supposed to be doing promo work but instead messing around with new drupal modules. I installed the Twitter module that James Walker released recently ( to post blog entries to twitter.com that are displayed on the public timeline) You can see my 'twitters' at http://twitter.com/chrisherberte
Flash style design effects with jQuery. Blog entry 3 years 5 weeks ago
Today I'll explain the jQuery + Interface Elements' effects that (at the time of writing) are a part of our design. These two effects, which have been designed to be unobtrusive are for adding some animation effects which was out of the scope of css. 1). Bouncy Content/Main <div> This is an...