Temporary Email Addresses

For almost every online service offered by a website, you need to open an account with that website. They want your email address, your location, your salary, your favorite's pet name - you name it. That's when temporary email addresses come in very handy.

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They allow you to provide an online service provider with a valid email address without having to reveal your true email address.

Code As Design

An interesting collection of articles on Code as Design by Jack W. Reeves.

Subversion Repository

Subversion is one of the most beautiful pieces of software that I have ever worked with. This open-source version control system is well designed, it's robust and scalable, it's powerful while still user-friendly, and it's also very well documented.

Setting up a minimally configured subversion repository can be very easy:

1. Download subversion from the tigris website
   
   http://subversion.tigris.org/


2. Create a subversion repository at your desired location by applying the command svnadmin create <location>, e.g.
   
   svnadmin create c:\server\subversion\repos


3. Optionally configure authentication and access-control in the svnserve.conf file which is located in the conf folder directly under the repository root, e.g.
   
   c:\server\subversion\repos\conf\svnserve.conf


4. Star the svnserve server process by applying the command svnserve -d -r <location>, e.g.
   
   svnserve -d -r c:\server\subversion\repos


5. You can then access the repository from a subversion client using the svn protocol, e.g.
   
   svn import c:\projects\foo svn://localhost/foo/trunk

You can learn all the details about subversion from the book Version Control with Subversion which is also accessible online.