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In setting up this site, I was recently struggling with the issue of how to redirect say http://domain.com to http://sub.domain.com without it causing an infinite recursion loop when visiting http://sub.domain.com/foo In the end my VirtualHosts config looked like this NameVirtualHost *:80 <VirtualHost *:80> ServerAlias sub.domain.com </VirtualHost> <VirtualHost *:80> ServerAlias domain.com ServerName domain.com Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine [...]

Nat Pryce posted a fun to read summary of software development laws including: Bram’s Law The easier a piece of software is to write, the worse it’s implemented in practice. (Bram Cohen) Gall’s Law A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also [...]

Several years ago I had the pleasure of watching Fuertzabruta at the Roundhouse in London, although it was only when i was recently undertaking my ScrumMaster training course that I had pause to reflect on their performance. Other attendees recounted stories from their ongoing development, stark reminders of the reality that exists for far too [...]