As you might have read earlier on this blog, I’ve been self-hosting this website along with a lot of friends and clients on a rented server at EasySpeedy. I have done this for about 18 months, and it’s been fun to have my very own webserver with 2 GiB RAM and the works, but as I’ve come to realise, this is a huge waste of money and resources.

Thom Holwerda has posted an interesting piece on the state of X11 development.

This particular passage made me smile:

For such an important piece of software, this is not an ideal situation.

Drupal’s popularity has really taken off on these parts – the last year has seen amazing growth, from a few hobbyists people meeting in Copenhagen now and then to large and respectable organisations deploying Drupal in really ambitious projects.

One of the things I have noticed as a result of the change, is how many that do not understand the why’s and the how’s of Drupal’s development.

It has become all the rage for geek bloggers to post a list of the most used commands on their command lines, but since I found my own results interesting, I will post them here nevertheless.

First, our company development server at (http://peytz.dk/) where I spend a lot of time messing around with CVS… sigh

-(mih@dev0)-(84/pts/4)-(~/www/drupal5/sites/asdfasdf-dk.drupal5.dev.peytz.dk/)-
-($ history | awk '{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | sort -rn | head
296 cvs
210 ls
209 cd
40 rm
29 realDiff
29 mv
25 vim
22 wget

For some weeks, I have on-and-off been trying to create my own mirror of cvs.drupal.org in Git, and now it seems I've finally succeeded.

I have set it up with Gitweb and everything, and it seems to have complete fidelity with regards to the original data. It has all the branches/heads and tags that Drupal has, meaning that you can use checkouts from this reppository to keep your Drupal installations up-to-date.

Here's the links:

Gitweb: http://git.lion47.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi
Repository (git clone this): http://git.lion47.com/drupal.git/