SVN 1 Click Setup is probably the easiest way to get Subversion up and running on your Windows systems. The installer installs the Subversion command-line utilities, the TortoiseSVN GUI, and walks you through the process of creating a repository and initial project.
As a happy Dreamhost customer, I am a regular visitor of their corporate blog. They recently posted a great article titled Web Hosting’s Dirty Laundry that explores the nasties of web hosting review sites. They describe their experiences after being contacted by a prominant hosting review site. The reviews are supposed to unbiased, but it is clear that these review companies are a purely for profit organizations, that accept cash for top listings, then pass them off as honest reviews. It is an interesting read, and a good reason to take the reviews from these types of sites with a grain of salt.
Clickable Bliss has a very good screencast that will provide an Introduction to Subversion. The screencast was developed on a Mac, but the info is excellent enough that it will apply to PC and Linux users as well.
SitePoint has a nice introduction on Using SVN for Web Development. Subversion (SVN) is a version control system that help in the management of software projects being developed by large or small groups. This article may help you decide if SVN is right for your team.
Earlier this week, RedHat announced the release of their latest Linux distribution - Fedora Core 5. Some new features include updated versions of the GNOME and KDE desktops, native MONO support, and the latest versions of Apache and Open Office.
freeSSHd is a free SSH Server for Windows that is unique in the fact that it provides a GUI to manage the SSH Server. Once the SSH Server is up and running, you can use it to create a Secure FTP server! It’s easy to use and possibly the best way to turn you Windows system into a rock solid and secure FTP server.
Suso Technology Services is offering this great SSH Tutorial for any operating system that supports OpenSSH. SSH (or Secure Shell) allows you to securely connect to your computer over a TCP/IP connection and run commands on the remote computer using a command prompt or terminal window. You can even use SSH to transfer files from one computer to the other. SSH is truely a powerful and interesting technology to learn.
Locomotive is probably one of the easiest ways for Mac users to give Ruby on Rails a spin. The installer includes Ruby, Rails, FCGI support, Lighttpd webserver, SQLite and a great collection of Ruby Gems to extend the Rails framework. A short screencast will show you how to begin using Locomotive and RoR.
James Higgs has put together a really nice series of articles that will help you get up and running with the Subversion open source version control system.
Today, VMWare introduced its new VMware Server virtualization software and announced that it would be available for free! This is big news for software and web developers. VMWare Server provides the opportunity to run multiple operating systems from within a host operating system. For example, you could run a RedHad Linux server while running a host operating system of Windows XP.
