Ned Batchelder on branching in Subversion: He explains how to create a branch and how to merge it with the trunk later on. You’ll also learn the difference between a Fixes Branch and a Feature Branch as well as some handy command line snippets. [#].

These websites were the most helpful I came across when I wanted to set up my virtual private network (VPN) with the IPCop, a Linux-based open source firewall.

The explanations on all sites are good to understand — you don’t necessarily need to have a degree in network administration to walk through them (even if you’re using IPCop, you somehow are).

IPCop-Open VPN HowTo at thinkhole.org

For establishing a VPN with the Zerina OpenVPN Extension. VPN via the RED interface.

IPCop VPN with Mac OS X at taupehat.com

Setup a VPN on OS X with IPSecuritas via the BLUE OR RED interface.

All about IPCop-VPNs at Ecki’s Place (German)

With X.509/PSK certificate on the BLUE or RED interface and Dead-Peer-Detection.

Especially the second one was really useful to safely connect my local machines and the Internet from my PowerBook via a wireless connection (routing through the blue IPCop interface with an IPSec tunnel)

Thought they could be useful to anybody who’s struggling with a VPN/IPSec setup.

Readers now have the option to track a comment conversation with cocomment. Just click on the bar below a comment-form to “watch” a conversation of specific articles.

This is a function built in the latest version of K2 – 0.9.1.

There are also some bugs fixed now with the Ajax commenting system.

This plugin integrates the SIMILE Timeline with WordPress. It displays posts from a specific category in the timeline widget. The quickest way is to add the shortcode [similetimeline] to a WordPress page or post.

Read the full entry "WordPress Plugin: SIMILE Timeline"

Started the blog timeline today and began to code a WordPress plugin based on the SIMILE Timeline.
Will now release the plugin and start to enter all noteworthy recent blog changes here.

Usability is very important – especially when the user has to take the challenge of filling in a web-form. Form labels give textual information as well as an interactive association. Unfortunately, Safari and Internet Explorer don’t spend much attention to that linkage. This article presents a script that adds click functionality to all form labels on a website for Safari and Internet Explorer.

Read the full entry "Clickable Form Labels for Safari and IE"