tar | Jason E. Shao

colorsvn

Nov

26

2007

While working on merging 2.5 into our local trunk, I was doing a bunch of `svn merge –dry-run, svn merge` statements, and thought “wouldn’t it be nice if subversion could color-code the status output for me.” `svn help` didn’t produce a –color or –colorize option, so some [googling](http://www.google.com/search?q=colorize+svn+output&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a) lead first to a handy `sed` recipe: ...

JA-SIG Unconf: Recap

Nov

18

2007

So, the JA-SIG un-conference (even the working sessions) is over, giving me a chance to do some thinking and reflection about the event and its aftermath. Overall, the attendance, interest, and excitement demonstrated by all of the participants was pretty overwhelming. We had both more individuals, institutions, and organizations represented than we ever would have ...

Where Congress spends $$$

Nov

7

2007

Now on Google Earth: Map where Congress spends your tax dollars | Tech news blog – CNET News.com “The Sunlight Foundation on Tuesday released a downloadable Google Earth layer that plots what it says are some 1,500 earmarks attached to a proposed U.S. House of Representatives defense spending bill. The Washington-based group describes its mission ...

Certificates: Oracle Wallet -> Tomcat

Oct

11

2007

Bottom line: scrub your certificates through Mozilla/Firefox. Keep reading if you want more background. So I recently experienced an unreasonable amount of pain trying to import a Verisign certificate that was locked into an Oracle Wallet for use in the Tomcat SSL connector. So of course the decent thing to do seems to be to ...

NYC Sakai User Group

Sep

17

2007

A few of us have been working to get a NYC Sakai User Group off the ground, and Tue 9/25 is the day! Come join us for an afternoon of networking, sharing, and maybe some dinner, graciously hosted by NYU. Details are: New York University 110 Fifth Ave (between 16th and 17th St) 5th Floor ...