Pondering: Using Git to add history to backups

tl;dr: Use Git to selectively add revision history to existing rsync backups. As anyone knows who has used computers for any length of time knows, hardware failure and data loss is inevitable. Having gone through several hard disk crashes, UPS and power failures and random acts of sleepless root console typing I have become especially […]

Marcus Povey

tl;dr: Use Git to selectively add revision history to existing rsync backups. As anyone knows who has used computers for any length of time knows, hardware failure and data loss is inevitable. Having gone through several hard disk crashes, UPS and power failures and random acts of sleepless root console typing I have become especially […]

Getting Netbeans to talk to Trac over SSL using Cubeon

Just a quick note here primarily for my own reference, but also hopefully to save anyone else the faff of getting this set up. In the arms race between Eclipse and Netbeans, it is Netbeans which seems to have jumped ahead in terms of usability and stability. Unfortunately it does not have Trac integration, forcing […]

Marcus Povey

Just a quick note here primarily for my own reference, but also hopefully to save anyone else the faff of getting this set up. In the arms race between Eclipse and Netbeans, it is Netbeans which seems to have jumped ahead in terms of usability and stability. Unfortunately it does not have Trac integration, forcing […]

Elgg Multisite moves to GitHub

Many moons ago I wrote an extension to Elgg which allows you to run multiple Elgg sites off of a single install of the codebase. Following some feedback from the wider world, as well as Elgg’s decision some time ago to move over to github I’ve tidied up the archive and moved it over to […]

Marcus Povey

Many moons ago I wrote an extension to Elgg which allows you to run multiple Elgg sites off of a single install of the codebase. Following some feedback from the wider world, as well as Elgg’s decision some time ago to move over to github I’ve tidied up the archive and moved it over to […]