Creating With Code

A blog by Robert (Marty) McGuire

Entries from May 2008

Extracting projects from a shared Subversion repository

May 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I recently had the need to migrate a project from a Subversion (SVN) repository that was shared among many other projects and groups to a fresh repository where it would be the first of many projects.
My first instinct was to simply use svnadmin dump to dump out the contents of the whole shared repository, transfer [...]

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Podcasting about the cloud

May 25th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Despite a lack of comments from the peanut gallery, Loren and I have created another podcast. You can download it here (~11.4MB) or listen below:

We did this podcast with a little less preparation, so the topics wander a little bit more. Some things you can expect to hear:

Justin.tv is great, but it may [...]

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A minor example of podcasting

May 20th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I’ve recently become interested in forms of “live” online media such as podcasting. Specifically, I am interested in trying to extract the maximum possible value out of podcasts, such as transcripts, time-based tags and links, excerpts, etc. This interest, along with a recent outpouring of Internet media from my friends over at Snowcap [...]

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Simple online storage with Amazon’s S3

May 20th, 2008 · 4 Comments

If you’ve been following all of the latest buzz about data and applications “in the cloud”, then you’re probably already familiar with Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3). If you’re not, or if you’ve never had the chance to play with it, then this post should help you get up, running, and able to easily [...]

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