Introducing the Simple Registration Key generator

Over on Github I’ve open sourced a little library for generating and verifying product registration keys. I needed this for a couple of my projects, and I’ve made it available with hopes of saving anyone else from having to write one! The tool takes a someone’s name and a salt (which is your product id […]

Marcus Povey

Over on Github I’ve open sourced a little library for generating and verifying product registration keys. I needed this for a couple of my projects, and I’ve made it available with hopes of saving anyone else from having to write one! The tool takes a someone’s name and a salt (which is your product id […]

Introducing the Simple Download Manager

The Simple Download Manager is another itch scratch to open source software project tale, basically I needed a simple way to serve files for download and keep some statistics. So, like a good open source citizen I’ve made it available under the GPL, hopefully it’ll save someone some time! Usage is very simple; clone the […]

Marcus Povey

The Simple Download Manager is another itch scratch to open source software project tale, basically I needed a simple way to serve files for download and keep some statistics. So, like a good open source citizen I’ve made it available under the GPL, hopefully it’ll save someone some time! Usage is very simple; clone the […]

Reducing the stress of configuration management with Git

I have previously written about using Git to add revision history to existing rsync backups. Having performed a number of configuration changes and system upgrades recently, I have found another use of Git which has proven invaluable. It’s a fairly obvious hack, but it turns out that turning selected configuration directories (for example /etc/apache2/ and […]

Marcus Povey

I have previously written about using Git to add revision history to existing rsync backups. Having performed a number of configuration changes and system upgrades recently, I have found another use of Git which has proven invaluable. It’s a fairly obvious hack, but it turns out that turning selected configuration directories (for example /etc/apache2/ and […]