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1. What Git does best.

   I’ve succumbed to the lure of the cool kids version control. GIT has advantages and disadvantage over my current favourite, Subversion.

   • 18^th November 2008
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   Tagged with:

   • git
   • version control

2. Drupal revisited

   Four months on and it’s time to review progress on the Northamptonshire Bird Club website. Is Drupal working out the way I hoped?

   • 24^th April 2008
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   Tagged with:

   • club
   • content management system
   • drupal
   • web development
   • writemaps

3. First impressions of MarsEdit

   I’m writing on the 30 day trial of MarsEdit, the blog editing tool for the Mac. Given that this is my second post of the day — very rare, I know — you might have gathered that I like it.
   I’ve always edited my online content remotely, I have a local copy and can work [...]

   • 10^th April 2008
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   Tagged with:

   • blogging
   • Mac User
   • marsedit
   • Software

4. Virtualizing my world

   Virtualization is definitely a big trend in computing and I’m growing to love it.
   On the Web.
   My production server environment is virtualized by the Xen hypervisor; providing a more flexible and cost effective solution.
   I like the freedom of complete root access but, given my relatively low traffic volumes, the cost of a dedicated server would be [...]

   • 10^th April 2008
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   • Software
   • virtualization
   • vmware fusion
   • xen