Software Trenches

CVSspam

CVSspam is a nice addition to your CVS repository.

CVSspam sends nicely html-formatted email on every commit. You can get a quick overview of changes at a glance or scroll down and see changes line by line. Example of the email is here:
http://www.badgers-in-foil.co.uk/projects/cvsspam/example.html

As a bonus, it is written in ruby.

P.S.: SVN-Notify is a similar tool for Subversion repositories.

Moving to MoveableType

Blogger.com is painfully slow. Republishing often takes 10 seconds or more. MoveableType (MT) is faster and has more features.

To migrate Blogger entries to MT:
http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t19140.html

The export file from blogger must be in Unix format. You can remove ^M characters using vi:

http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=26

To migrate blosxom entries to MT:
http://www.pipetree.com/qmacro/blog/archives/2005/02/

I had to change command to:
find ./ -name '*.txt' | xargs ./MakeMtImportEntries.py > import.dat