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Linked List: July 16, 2005

Saturday, 16 July 2005

MT Database Converter ★

Hirotaka Ogawa’s MT Database Converter is a CGI script for converting Movable Type’s database between supported DB engines: BerkeleyDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite. MT itself only support converting from Berkeley DB to any of the various SQL engines — before this, there was no automated way to convert from one SQL engine to another. (Via Anil Dash.)

Damian Conway: Ten Essential Development Practices ★

Ten tips from Damian Conway’s just-released book, Perl Best Practices. I can’t wait to get my hands on this book. (Weird, though, that the book’s cover features a dog — O’Reilly generally uses dogs for Mac-specific books.)

Sandbox ★

Michael Watson’s Sandbox is a new GUI-based access control list editor for Tiger. Mac OS X Server ships with a GUI for managing ACLs, but Sandbox is the first GUI for managing ACLs in the client version of Tiger. (If you don’t know what access control lists are, feel free to ignore this.)