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If you ever need to get a integrated data report for multiple profiles you can get one here: http://gaevolution.appspot.com
Simple webinterface that aggregates multiple profiles from your GA account and produces a tabular report.
.. or you can always script arround the Data API

$ cat /etc/lsb-release

If you hope that a simple copy will make it.. it doesn’t. Apparently the unique disk indentifier (UUID) is embbeded in the image file.

$ VBoxManage clonevdi sourceimage.vdi destimage.vdi

For some time now i started to notice the amount of time i wasted in solving version conflicts. The GNU diff works great with small change sets, but having a visual diff tool helps a lot when you’re dealing with long files with lots of diffs.
I used several visuall-diff-editors whit the several version-control software [...]

Some modules like XML::Simple export some functions by default into your namespace. Normally you don’t want this functions since the module has a OO interface; so, how to avoid the auto-export from taint your namespace ?
You can, at include time, be careful and explicitly tell the module not to export anything by doing this:

use XML::Simple [...]

… you really should ckeck out HttpFox : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6647
It provides all the information that Live HTTP Headers do (and more, like request time tracking ) but with better organization.

I still use svn for some projects, some of them are python.
Python pre-compiles the python files, so, the first time i run one of this projects i end up with a bunch of .pyc files that i don’t want to add to the repository.
Since svn doesn’t know this files the svn status generates a [...]

I’ve a lot of code that depends on different versions of the same library, its quite hard to maintain the different versions installed in their specific dirs along with all their dependencies without tainting anything else.
To be able to run all of this code in one machine i’ve to make a lot of manipulation to [...]