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Everything but the Kitchen, Sync!

June 21, 2005

Everything but the Kitchen, Sync!

One of my favourite Firefox extensions is Bookmarks Synchronizer, a tool to sync up my bookmarks across my myriad of machines. I can spot something cool at work, bookmark it, then read it in my leisure time at home. (And never the other way around. I never spend my work hours mindlessly surfing, and you’d be a fool to think so).

Its main problem is its requirement for either a FTP site or a WebDAV folder to save your bookmarks to. I hastily and hackily enabled mod_dav on my Linux server, but was never terribly happy with that setup—It felt like an extra unattended door to my server.

Enter the new (and relatively unheralded) WebDAV autoversioning feature in Subversion 1.2. With just a minor tweak to your Subversion config, Bookmark Synchronizer can now write directly to your Subversion repository—Keeping a full history as it goes.

Over HTTPS and with mod_auth_pam(mod_auth_pam.c, pluggable authentication (PAM) for Apache), it’s about as secure as your bookmarks will ever need to be.


About This Site

This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.

I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.