Monthly Archives: July 2009

Tracking MediaWiki in a Subversion vendor branch

Vendor branches are the proper™ way of merging upstream changes in your web application installations. In Subversion, managing vendor branches isn't so easy as it is in Git. Still, vendor branches make it much easier to track upstream. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 3 years ago, on July 20, 2009, at 14:07 | 2 comments

TheSixtyOne, a better social music site

If you liked Last.fm, you'll love TheSixtyOne. Discovering music is turned into a reputation game. Much like Last.fm, you can explore similar artists, genres, tags, moods and users. But, by doing so and hearting songs, you can earn reputation points and extra hearts. As your points increase, you level up, which gives you more authority. There's an endless amount of quests to earn points faster and to make you discover all the facets of the application. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 3 years ago, on July 20, 2009, at 11:07 | No comments

Setting up Rsync daemon

What can you do when you want to backup your entire machine to a remote location but only have non-root shell access? You use rsyncd. Read More »
By halfgaar, 3 years ago, on July 15, 2009, at 16:07 | No comments

Blogging: quantity over quality

They say that blogging is a long way down from essaying. Articles were already better than essays, and books even more so. So they say. A lot is said these days. I say: the more, the merrier. I say: let us say! Let us say whatever we want. And let people read whatever they want, now that they can. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 3 years ago, on July 10, 2009, at 11:07 | No comments

Editing Wikipedia/MediaWiki articles with VIM

Wikipedia has a number of tips for people who like to edit Wikipedia articles with VIM. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 3 years ago, on July 10, 2009, at 10:07 | No comments