From 16 – 24 September 2007 the Noborders network set up a camp as a base from which to demonstrate against immigration detention centers in Sussex, England. Throughout the camp, Indymedia UK ran a media centre including a dispatch system for news reporting and a public access point in the middle of a farmer’s field. In case it’s useful to anybody doing something similar, here’s how we set it up.
A subversion case study
Posted by yossarian
Subversion is a popular version control system used by programmers to keep track of who did what to their project code. It works great, but it drives non-coders mental – especially graphic designers, people trying to work on CSS files, HTML templates, etc. Here’s a quick rundown on what you need to do to get subversion-hosted code onto your machine so that you can work on it and commit it back to the main repository.
A non-Jedi approach for new Rails coders:
Posted by yossarian
Second in our “friendly web programming” series, this installment starts with a pop-quiz for new programmers. If you’re trying to learn programming for the first time, you’ve got a whole lot of unfamiliar stuff to think about, and most of the time you don’t understand at least half of what’s going on. In such a situation, which of the following two options would you like to be presented with when you are trying to learn web programming?
