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Archive for September, 2008:

Fine-grain SVN repository permissions over HTTP (DAV)

I use svn+apache2 to give access to all my repos. This is acomplished with dav_svn_module that allows you to give DAV SVN acess to one directory on your file system. I drop all my projects in /servers/svn/rep/ so, for a while, giving DAV access to /servers/svn/rep/ did the trick. The problem arises when you need [...]

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Perl modules distributions

All over the year’s i’ve made several perl module distributions. I’ve used a diversity of tools to package the modules and create a cpan ready distribution. I’ve bumped into several issues with the makefiles and the packaging itself but, for sometime now, i’ve a recipe to create a fully cpan compliant distribuition without any manual [...]

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Site remake

Well, did a complete remake on the brunotavares.net site. I’m now using a completely new set of tools. The design also took a revamp, it’s a simpler, css based, layout which makes it simpler to distribute to all the different pieces of the site.

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“time-machine” ™ with rsync

The apple’s time-machine concept is precisely what i want for my laptop “backups” For the information sitting in my laptop i don’t want traditional disaster and recovery backups, i want to be able to, quickly, search and restore any version of ( virtually ) any file. Tthe problem? i don’t own a mac. The principle [...]

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