Abandon CVS and synchronize your code from git automatically

Sick of developing a Drupal module with CVS? Want to use git but also want your code in CVS on drupal.org for development snapshots? This is an approach to get rid of using CVS completely by synchronizing a git repository automatically to CVS. Basic git knowledge required. Script is on Github. Needs some testing though.

Gmail and postmaster

The Gmail spam filter works fine most time, but be careful if you are the postmaster of a mail server and want to check delivery failure notifications in your Gmail account.

Drupal Core update script

Update: Do not use this script anymore, drush provides a very good upgrade mechanism itself now!

Upgrading Drupal core can be a very tedious task - especially if you run a Drupal multi site installation (backup database, put site into maintenance mode, run update DB script, put site online again - repeat for every single site). We use Drush and a custom bash script to make life much more easier on our fsinf.at Drupal farm.

Ruby on Rails Setup on Ubuntu 9.10

I'm working on a Ruby on Rails project right now and had to setup an environment on my Ubuntu 9.10 system. Here are the install commands for your reference if you want to get it done fast.