SVN checkout the contents of a folder, not the folder itself

I'm fairly new to linux and svn. I'm trying to checkout the trunk folder of a project into my public_html directory using this command (while in public_html):

Apache and IIS side by side (both listening to port 80) on windows2003

What are some good ways to do this? Is it even possible to do cleanly?

In 2011 is it truly necessary to still degrade js?

Serious question.

I tried most of the famous websites (including facebook) and I can say that tons of functionality doesn't degrade at all with js disabled. I've been always told that js should degrade gracefully, but does this still applies in these day and age?

Best book to learn web development for a professional developer?

I'm a professional software developer. I've been programming in a lot of different languages over the course of more than two decades now. Picking up a new programming language is very easy for me.

When is a CDATA section necessary within a script tag?

Are CDATA tags ever necessary in script tags and if so when?

Is the Windows dev environment worth the cost?

I recently made the move from Linux development to Windows development. And as much of a Linux enthusiast that I am, I have to say - C# is a beautiful language, Visual Studio is terrific, and now that I've bought myself a trackball my wrist has stopped hurting from using the mouse so much.

Pre-installed Linux for Web Developers?

Does anybody know an ISO image of a up-to-date Linux distribution aimed at web developers with one, some or all of the following features:

XAMPP and WAMP in the LAMP, whats the best?

We have got loads of options for php + MySQL + Apache combo... Which is the best pack among these ?

What is the best PHP programming book?

I'm interested to find out what Stack Overflow believes the best PHP book is - both for those who are beginners to web programming as well as those who have previous programming experience (they don't have to be same book). "Best" includes being both reasonably up-to-date and encouraging best practices for secure, modern, PHP programming.

Do you have to restart apache to make re-write rules in the .htaccess take effect?

I have pushed my .htaccess files to the production severs, but they don't work. Would a restart be the next step, or should I check something else.

jQuery get textarea text

Recently I have started playing with jQuery, and have been following a couple of tutorials. Now I feel slightly competent with using it (it's pretty easy), and I thought it would be cool if I were able to make a 'console' on my webpage (as in, you press the ` key like you do in FPS games, etc.), and then have it Ajax itself back to the server in-order to do stuff.

UTF-8 all the way through

I'm setting up a new server, and want to support UTF-8 fully in my web application. I have tried in the past on existing servers and always seem to end up having to fall back to ISO-8859-1.

Database Structure Advice Needed

Im currently working on a site which will contain a products catalog. I am a little new to database design so I'm looking for advice on how best to do this. I am familiar with relational database design so I understand "many to many" or "one to many" etc (took a good db class in college). Here is an example of what an item might be categorized as:

Why is PHP apt for high-traffic websites?

I was surprised to learn today that PHP is used widely in high-traffic websites.

Best way to detect when user leaves a web page

What is the best way to detect if a user leaves a web page?

.htaccess rewrite to redirect root URL to subdirectory

Trying to get

www.example.com

to go directly to

www.example.com/store

I have tried multiple bits of code and none work. Please help!

How Python web frameworks, WSGI and CGI fit together

I have a Bluehost account where I can run Python scripts as CGI. I guess it's the simplest CGI, because to run I have to define the following in .htaccess :

Which Android tablets are usable for testing Javascript heavy web applications

I need to develop a client heavy web application that works on Android tablets. It must work with the default browser and maybe as PhoneGap application. So I need a tablet for testing.

Non-blocking javascript and css in modern browsers. Is it still needed?

I am playing a little with some non-blocking JavaScript loading. This means I have a small snippet of JavaScript in my head , and load all my external files at runtime. I even took it a little further to load CSS non-blocking.

What is a better, simpler and more modern way to build Java Web Applications compared to Maven?

I'm thinking of getting rid of Maven. It's alright for simple applications, but I'm running into problems that I can't solve, nobody else seems to be able to solve them, and even the Maven mailing list doesn't have a solution.