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deploying code from SVN to a webhost that can’t access your repository

March 20, 2008 – 6:48 pm

I just ran into the problem of trying to deploy code from an SVN repository to a machine that couldn’t access the repo (corporate firewall in the way). Since manually keeping tabs of which files were changed and pushing by hand sucks, and doing clean builds for minor changes is a time sink, a better […]

By jamesv | Also posted in bash, svn, snippet, code | Comments (0)

Be proud of your patches

August 25, 2007 – 9:09 pm

For the first couple years I was doing development work, whenever I found a problem with my code that noone else had caught, I always tried to sneak out a fix under the radar. I now say with much more experience and 20/20 hindsight, I was a friggin’ idiot.

I wasn’t fooling anybody, all systems designed […]

By jamesv | Also posted in pants, methods, shortcomings, code | Comments (0)