This guide will show how powerful the MooTools Chain class is. In MooTools chaining facilitates the execution of a stack of functions sequentially and is extremely powerful. I have only tested this in MooTools v1.2 beta 2.

I will be posting more of these short guides on using MooTools in the upcoming weeks. Each will focus on a small problem and solve it with MooTools with the aim of being a useful way to learn the framework.

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Recently I set up a virtual server to use as a development machine. It runs on CentOS 5 and hosts several Subversion repositories with associated Trac projects.

There are many guides and plenty of help on the net to help you setup such a system. However, when I tried to do it I came across a few problems and I hope this post may help at least a few people trying to do the same as me. I am not going to rewrite the great tutorials out there, I will just point you to them and note what things I did differently.

This ‘guide’ should get you from a fresh install of CentOS 5 linux to one or more working Subversion (SVN) repositories and associated Trac wiki’s. Apache/WebDAV is used as the network layer. I have only tested this on a fresh install of CentOS 5.

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