Quick Tips: Absolute SVN (subversion) basics.

The very basic after installing SVN on your computer is to perform
CASE 1: In case you want to use svn offline.
1.svnadmin create /directory/path
NOTE:assuming you were working on some code copy the code to the svn directory.
2. cd /directory/path
3. “svn add .” OR “svn add –force .”
4. svn commit -m ” commit message”

CASE 2: In case you want to use svn with some online repository.
1.svn co http://path (enter username and password if prompted).
NOTE: do STEP 1 even if the SVN repo at the URL is empty
2.copy the files or directories to the Checked Out(svn co …..) directory
3.same as above.
4.same as above.

regards.

kunalghosh
(kunal ghosh)

Quick TIp: Resume svn check outs

I’ve had power outages while doing svn checkouts ( method to get a local copy of source code on an online repository ), so to resume the checkout, cd to the svn working directory and issue “svn up” (without ” “) to resume the checkout.

Appjet.com Rocks !!

If you have ever wondered where have all the user friendly web apps gone ? just check out Appjet.com’s recent addition the EtherPad(EtherPad.com, one such app, you’ll have to use it to realize.And if you had seen that before just check out their online IDE, i’m sure you’ll love it.
NOTE: I had blogged about Appjet.com some time back also and since then i’ve seen EtherPad and many other promising updates on the site.

kunalghosh
(kunal ghosh)

Wanna Auto-scroll , just give a missed call !!

i recently observed a very strange phenomenon, place your mobile phone next to your optical mouse (I’ve got a standard logitech optical scroll mouse) and give yourself a missed call or an sms (from another phone call or sms the mobile kept next to the mouse ) and watch Firefox ( or for that matter any application having multi-line text) window auto-scroll down !! i don’t know why this happens ! any ideas ?

My Own Activity Logger Application.

Having been constantly coxed by my father to log whatever i do , i have been using sticky notes from KDE project forsome time now. But i have a habit of messing around with my installation and managed to screw up my box. And inturn i lost all my logs. so  i decided  to write a Portable Activity Logging Application. Working through yesterday evening i have come up with this , it comes with the Netbeans Project Folder in case you want to modify it. If you happen to modify it OR have a suggestion , please leave a comment to this post.

The Application JAR file. ( Needs Java Runtime Environment to run).