Subversion: How do you install and set up Subversion for revision control?

Code revision control is very crucial part of development.  It ensures you know who has changed which files and you are able to rollback to older versions in case new changes are breaking your website page or entire project.  There are few options for you if you are looking into setting up code revision control.  My preferred [...]

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Using url rewrite engine to serve default avatar to avoid checking for file in PHP

One of the great features of Apache is URL Rewrite. It has helped me to do so many different tasks that I had to blog about this and share the love. One of the things I used it for recently was to provide a solution for a simple problem which was being checked [...]

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MySQL wait_timeout setting

We were having issues with mysql threads where they would be in sleep mode and wouldn’t die off for long time. At the same time we started having issues with our servers where the load will spike and eventually server will come to halt unless we killed all the apache processes and restarted apache [...]

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