January 17, 2009: Pulling a Double on a Saturday

So much for a nice, relaxing weekend.  I was woken up at eight this morning by my boss calling to let me know that we had a massive disaster at work over the last few hours and that it was all hands on deck.  By a quarter after eight I was down in the basement …

January 16, 2009: Short Friday, Sort Of

Today I got the wonderful surprise of starting work and then finding out that not only is today a short day with the market closing at two in the afternoon but that Monday is a holiday!  So it is a long weekend for me.  Yay!  We are thinking about shopping for some window dressing for …

January 15, 2009: Getting Into the Post Holiday Groove

“The impact of the impossible is often rather small.” Boy is it a cold day today.  I am so thankful that it is so much warmer here than so many other places that I have lived in the past.  We got down to around fifteen degrees in the middle of the day but the sun …

Managing Apache and Subversion Through Active Directory (Part 1 – Authentication)

In my previous article, Installing Subversion on RHEL5, we went over how to install the Subversion server and how to make it accessible through the Apache web server.  This solution is great but leaves us without any user authorization and authentication.  For most Subversion instances these are features that we will want to have.  We …

January 14, 2009: Dominica’s Shopping Day

It is pretty chilly here in the Hudson Valley this week but apparently what we are experiencing is nothing compared to what I have been hearing about from family back home or Twitter friends across the country.  Cold but not unreasonable.  It is times like this that I really appreciate living in downstate New York …