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Out of Space? Scattered Files? Use WinDirStat

Curtis M. Humphrey — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:32:39 +0000

At Vanderbilt I work almost exclusively from my own Dell Inspiron E1705 labtop. I started using my own laptop so that I could sit in a room with windows and because being a Grad Student I often had to take work home. However, my laptop is getting dated and it is running out of hard drive space because of all the production programs I have installed (e.g., Visual Studio, QT, Adobe CS4, Mircosoft Office, RUNAWAY – The dream of the turtle).

Out of Space? Yes, yes I am…

One day I wanted to see where all my space was being used and I found this great open source program: WinDirStat. Below is a shapshot of my hard drive usage with WinDirStat. I’ve also used it on our home PC to find everywhere we had backup our pictures using this color coding for files types (way cool). The User directory is large because I have over 4GB of Vanderbilt papers, projects, with 2GB for my Ph.D. Thesis directory. Well it looks like the problem is that I just need a bigger hard drive or a new laptop . However, it will have to wait until after I start my post-Ph.D. job.

Snapshot of my hard drive usage with WinDirStat

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Setting up Komodo Edit 5

Curtis M. Humphrey — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 22:02:55 +0000

Komodo Edit Logo

I starting using Komodo IDE as my PHP editor over Dreamweaver in 2006? I was tired of Dreamweaver not having features like “looking function definition” which jumps to where the php function is defined in some other file. I tried a few other editors and they just didn’t feel as intutive. Since Komodo has created an open source (read free) version call Komodo Edit and have been using that and having missed the edit features. There are a number of things I do to make the Edit program feel more like home. First I install a few extensions…

Best Extensions:

Source Tree must have for quickly jumping around and viewing code
HTML Toolkit great for auto-completing HTML/XML tags and previewing css images
Remote Drive Tree great for editing files you usally do not have local copies of (e.g., php.ini)
TODO Helper finds all your TODO statements so you don’t forget them

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Upgrading Wordpress to 2.7.1

Curtis M. Humphrey — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:09:58 +0000

It appears that the real problem is php memory. This post seems to echo my problem: php-memory-and-wordpress.

Previous thought but probably wrong…

It appears that in WP-SpamFree 1.9.8.3 breaks Wordpress 2.7.1. It also appears that Broken Link Checker 0.4.10 breaks Wordpress 2.7.1 in the same manner.

I upgraded from 2.7 to 2.7.1 and these plugins seems to cause some admin pages to stall i.e. end displaying html before the ending tag. Case in point, the Tools->Import page does not completely load when the plugin was activated but does when deactivated.

Just thought I pass this info along.