If you’re using SVN to control your web application, your certainly need to deny access to .svn sub-directories.
With Apache2
<DirectoryMatch “^/.*/\.svn/”>
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
</DirectoryMatch>
With [...]

Sometimes you need to retrieve a single file from SVN without doing a checkout on the repository.
SVN provides the svn cat to output the content of a file. You can redirect the output to get the file as :
svn cat https://svn.mydomain.com/project/folder/file.ext > file.ext
You can also use a simple shell script to do the work :
$ [...]

After two years of using Pound, Wordpress decided to switch to Nginx as software load balancers for Wordpress.com. Read the full story on Barry’s Blog.

If like me you use iTerm for your terminal sessions, this is the tips to dynamically set the tab title.
As I’m using the bash shell, the tab title can be automatically set with the PROMPT_COMMAND variable. You can set this variable in /etc/profile or in your .bashrc
Mine is like this :
export PROMPT_COMMAND=’echo -ne “\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME%%.*}\007″‘
The content [...]

Enable mod_redirect
server.modules += ( “mod_redirect” )
Force your domain with www.
$HTTP["host"] =~ “^domain\.com$” {
url.redirect = ( “^/(.*)” => “http://www.domain.com/$1″ )
}
Force your domain without www.
$HTTP["host"] =~ “^www\.domain\.com$” {
url.redirect = ( “^/(.*)” => “http://domain.com/$1″ )
}
Redirect HTTP requests to HTTPS
$SERVER["socket"] == “:80″ {
$HTTP["host"] =~ “(.*)” {
[...]

As read here, this is my command line history on my MacBook :
$ history 1000 | awk ‘{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}’ | sort -rn | head

240 ssh
62 cd
55 scp
33 for
28 vim
25 ping
17 history
13 ls
4 sudo
3 telnet