OK, this post is more about recovering the Katapult functionality that I love. In KDE 4, which I recently installed there is a program called KRunner. It works like Katapult, but the shortcut key is Alt+F2. It’s too much of a stretch to hit both keys at the same time. Katapult’s Alt+Space is way friendlier. To change this shortcut: K -> System Settings -> Keyboard & Mouse -> Keyboard Shortcuts -> KDE Component (Run Command Interface) -> Run Command.

Actually it’s 4.1, apparently more stable that the point release, and that’s why I waited as long as I did. For more instructions, see http://kde4.debian.net/. You probably need to upgrade to Lenny first. Well, late to upgrade (or update) as usual, but the wait (to upgrade) to KDE 4 was well worth it, as there was only one small dependency issue which didn’t affect the boot into KDE 4. Way to go!

I’ve taken a job at a new company, and my lead has decided we go with CodeIgniter. It looks pretty nice, wish us luck!

It’s done! For web developers out there, IMO it’s much easier to call svn update than to navigate the new admin interface (smooth as it may be). See here for more instructions.

Blair Layton did give a nice preso on Oracle 11g, I plan to check out that developer DVD they provided. There was also a demo of Oracle Application Express, which is a step-by-step (simple) web app builder. If you’d like to attend more of such events, do check out: blog.php.com.sg. The presentation was videoed, so the slides/video should be up on that website fairly quickly.

I’ve had to write a number of .htaccess files over the past week or so. My uses of mod_rewrite are simple enough, but I thought to post here since there in case anybody just wants to accomplish something quickly. Ask your system administrator to set the AllowOverride property to FileInfo or All, otherwise these overrides won’t work. RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://blog.waynekhan.net/ [R=301,L] Permanent (301) redirect some_page.html: RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/some_page.