Thanks to some new interest, I’ve decided to resurrect an old project of mine, PHP EMS Tools. It’s a web-based tool for small emergency services organizations, mainly aimed at volunteer EMS/ambulance providers. The tool handles roster tracking, scheduling, equipment maintenance and checks, and a bunch of other …

Update February 2014: Give up the analytics, and just host your code on GitHub.

All of my public subversion repositories and CVS repositories are available online through a great Python application called ViewVC, which provides a web-based interface to CVS and SVN repositories, as well as history browsing, graphical diffs …

I’ve been in the process of manually merging two directories in a subversion repo. The second started out as a “development” copy of the first (without branching, unfortunately). Since there’s quite a few files, I decided that a graphical diff program is a must. I usually use kdiff3 …

While I know this isn’t best practice, since we use LDAP-based auth for our Linux boxes (including a sudoers file based on LDAP group membership), we usually do work on some boxes as root (sudo su -). This includes our puppetmaster, where configs are kept in subversion and edited …

Note for non-technical readers (not that I expect there to be many). The title of this post includes the word “hacker”. If you think that has anything to do with illegal acts or unethical behavior, you’ve fallen victim to what happens when the mainstream media latches on to a …

Recently I was doing some work on a few PHP scripts, and came by a rather annoying error while trying to commit to subversion:

svn: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: Working copy '/srv/www/htdocs/newcall/stats/generated' is missing or not locked

The problem was a directory, “generated”. This …