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  • 11.1.07 Man Alive posted in Geekery

    I just discovered Bwana while looking for something completely different. It can open and format man pages right in your web browser. I’ve found other utilities that beat paging in Terminal, but this is really nice. I’ve tried it in Firefox (man [manpage]) and in Safari (man://[manpage]) and it works great. If you’re feeling geeky or just wondering what the geek next to you is talking about, check it out. There’s nothing like a good, old-fashioned man page to put some hair on your chest.

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  • 4.10.07 Beginning the SVN Journey posted in Geekery

    Alright, we’re beginning our Subversion tutorials today. Subversion is a revision control system, and for our purposes we’re going to be setting it up for web development, and using this blog as an example. For those of you preparing to join me on my SVN exploration, you’re looking at what appears like it’s going to be an 8 or 9 part series. I’ve got it all laid out and am confident enough now to share my experiences. We’re going to start with a prerequisite in part I today: Password-less SSH. Note: I work in OS X, and while most of this material is cross-platform, there will be frequent OS X references.

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