At my office, we have a crufty Subversion repository (dating back to early 2006) that contains a jumble of unrelated projects. We would like to split this single repository up into a number of smaller repositories, each following the recommended trunk/tags/branches repository organization.
What we want to do is move a project from a path that looks like this:
.../projects/some-project-name
To a new repository using the recommended Subversion repository layout, like this:
Like many other folks out there, I have several computers in my house connected to the outside world via a Linux box acting as a NAT gateway. I often want to use application such as BitTorrent and Freenet, which require that a number of ports be forwarded from my external connection to the particular computer on which I happen to be working. It turns out there’s a protocol for this, called UPnP. From Wikipedia:
I spent some time recently trying to figure out, using Google’s gdata API, how to retrieve a post from a Blogger blog if I know corresponding post id. As far as I can tell there is no obvious way of doing this, at least not using the gdata.blogger.client api, but after much nashing of teeth I came up with the following solution.
Given client, a gdata.blogger.client instance, and blog, a gdata.blogger.data.Blog instance, the following code will return a gdata.blogger.data.BlogPost instance:
I thought I’d give Fring a try after seeing some favorable reviews on other sites. If you haven’t previously heard of Fring, the following blurb from their website might be helpful:
Using your handset’s internet connection, you can interact with friends on all your favourite social networks including Skype, MSN Messenger, Google Talk, ICQ, SIP, Twitter, Yahoo! and AIM. You can listen to music with your Last.fm friends, check out what each other are up to on Facebook, receive alerts of new Google Mail and tailor make your very own fring by adding more cool experiences from fringAdd-ons