Yearly Archives: 2009
Complex SVN repository conversion to GIT
When I converted our two Visual Source Safe (vss from now on) repositories into one Subversion (svn from now on) repository I did it in an ugly fashion. I dumped the file based history for the current live trees, then … Continue reading
Nant xmlpoke whole blocks
It took me awhile today to use the nant/xmlpoke/xpath to update our copyright message in our application so I’ll document it here. The xmlpoke documentation explains whole to replace parameters but not children nodes. The simple answer is just define … Continue reading
Feed Issues
There’s something wrong with Google Feed Sync (via FeedDemon) as compared to NewsGator’s deprecated service. Over the last few months none of my own post have been showing up, so last week I logged into Google Reader and Ta-Da, 5 … Continue reading
Cool Office Stuff
One of the things I’ve enjoyed about my current office, is all the neat stuff people have at their desks. The Nixie tube clock Or the Trimble GPS PCB clock Or the great wall-of-cola which was bigger until administration told … Continue reading
Read the credits first
The other day James was showing me around QGit, how to do blames, review logs, etc and we were trying to get it to use Beyond Compare as an external diff tool (C:/Progra~1/Beyond~1/BComp.exe /ro %1 %2) Things were behaving funky, … Continue reading
