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Reverse Proxying to WordPress.com

By Rufus Pollock On October 2, 2009 · Leave a Comment

I wanted to do a reverse proxy to wordpress.com in order to integrate an existing wordpress.com blog into an existing site. This turned out to be a little trickier than I’d thought due to wordpress.com’s usage of gzip deflation of their output.

Figured this out thanks to sound advice here and here:

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Subversion Hacks

By Rufus Pollock On June 20, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Automatically Adding or Removing Files

Especially useful when, for example, versioning /etc/:

Files to remove:

svn stat -q | grep ‘^!’ svn stat -q | grep ‘^!’ | sed -e ‘s/^!\s*//’ | xargs | svn rm

Files to add:

svn stat | grep ‘^?’ svn stat -q | grep ‘^?’ | sed -e ‘s/^?\s*//’ [...]

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