Rebasing with svn

So I’ve been accepted as a GSoC student for WordPress. My project involves working on the core WordPress code, but on a separate svn repository. I needed an easy way to keep my branch synchronized with trunk.

Unfortunately, svn doesn’t have the concept of rebasing, so I wrote a little bash script to simulate it.

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Fun with MBR and partition tables

I use Ubuntu as my primary operating system. Because I needed Visual Studio for college, I also installed Windows 7 on the same hard-drive.
To be able to access files on the Linux partition, I installed a little program called Ext2Fsd. Unfortunately, it wasn’t updated to work with Ext4 partitions…

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Auto-shrink YouTube Videos

One of the things I hate about flash-based players is that you can’t control them properly through CSS. For example, if you write this CSS code: object {width: 100%; height: auto} … the videos won’t scale properly (the height will stay fixed). So I came up with this little jQuery script that makes a video [...]

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AWN 0.4 is awesome!

Avant Window Navigator is a dock-like window and launcher manager for Linux. The newest version (0.4) is available for testing.

Why is it awesome? Because it allows me to combine the two boring Gnome panels into one slick OS X / Windows 7 like dock.

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7 reasons why I use bbPress

bbPress 1.0 has finally been released last week. But why do I use it? Why would anyone use it? Here are my 7 reasons. It’s familiar If you have any experience with WordPress 2.7 or older, you will feel right at home using the new bbPress admin. You imediatly get a sense that you already [...]

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