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Monthly Archives July 2008

“Joel On Software” By Joel Spolsky

If you’re in the business of developing software, you should read the “Joel On Software” book. Period.
(Shortest review I’ve ever written.)
While I don’t agree with everything Joel has written, I find most of what he writes to be a clear exposition of common-sense approaches to managing software development. No BS, just simple stuff that works. [...]

Posted 16 July 2008 † schof § Books § Programming ‡ Comments (0)

Backing up with Duplicity over SSH

I’m attempting to set up Duplicity as a backup tool, running from cron over ssh, to backup my home directory to another server.
I of course already have passwordless SSH set up to connect to that server, and use ssh-agent to store the passphrase for my SSH key, as described in another entry. However, I could [...]

Posted 03 July 2008 † schof § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (2)