I’m always searching for how to do this because I keep forgetting. So here it is, no more searching.

I’ve been looking for a good command for making a textual graph of my repo, showing the various branches, where they come from, etc. The reason I like this one is that it’s not only a graph, but it shows the branch names like ‘gitk –all’ does, but only the ones that are tied to tags or branches.

I’ve had complex backup solutions in the past, which I wrote myself with rsync and bash. I’ve recently got sick and tired of the issues that come up now and then with them, so I decided to keep it extremely simple. So, I decided to opt for a couple of rsync only shell scripts. I get emails every time they run, as part of cron.

I was recently asked a question about the conditions under which I would choose SOAP vs REST for writing a Web Service. I was thoroughly intrigued by the question, because I was curious in which way the discussion would go, as that would tell me a lot about the other developer.

I needed a way to verify that the OpenLDAP server had the correct hash recorded. That is, a SSHA Hash Generator that I could run off the command line was in order. After fiddling through it, I thought it would be worth documenting in a blog post.