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Growl Notification for Subversion

mike — Tue, 04 May 2010 19:15:07 +0000

I’ve written a little shell script that can be used to poll a Subversion repository and notify you via Growl when new revisions are added.

To start using it, download svn-growlnotify from github, copy svn-growlnotify.sh somewhere so you don’t lose it, make sure it is executable (chmod +x svn-growlnotify.sh), and set up a crontab entry to run it with your repository URL:

* * * * * /path/to/svn-growlnotify.sh -s http://your.repository.url/ 1>/dev/null 2>&1

Here’s the source code:

Subversion with LDAP on Windows Vista

mike — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:55:53 +0000

At 2Advanced we are using Subversion to manage project files, using LDAP for authentication on our Windows domain and Exchange server.

This system works very well, but when we switched to Windows Vista we started having intermittent issues on various workstations. TortoiseSVN, our svn client of choice, will occasionally fail with an “Unauthorized” error or other similar error message when doing a commit. We noticed that this normally happens during a longer commit, and TortoiseSVN will usually re-prompt for a username/password partway through the commit before failing. I’m not sure why, but sometimes Tortoise will use the Windows user’s credentials to access the repository, but sometimes it will prompt you to enter a username/password. In order to avoid getting the error message, you need to ensure that, if you are prompted to re-enter your username/password, you use the exact same string (matching case) that was used initially. If the strings dont’ match exactly, the commit will fail because it thinks two separate authors are sending the same commit.

I’m mostly posting this for my own reference because I keep forgetting exactly what’s causing this strange problem.

Another key when setting up SVN with LDAP on a Windows domain is to create a group for each user – including all possible permutations of that user’s username

username = DOMAIN\Username, DOMAIN\\Username, Username, DOMAIN\username, DOMAIN\\username, username

MyGroup = @username, @otherusername

[/MyClient/MyProject] @MyGroup = rw * =

FavTwits, a Twitter tool

mike — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:40:45 +0000

FavTwits is a tool I just wrote that explores your relationships with other Twitter users through your and their use of @username tweets. Find out who you are tweeting with the most, and plot the results on a weekly activity chart.

Comments, suggestions? Let me know. Want to help me out w/ a decent design? Go for it!

That’s What She Said iPhone App

mike — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:49:32 +0000

I recently released my first iPhone app: That’s What She Said iPhone App. Visit the site, download it through the App Store, and let me know what you think. Here is the Direct Link to the iTunes App Store.

It's never been easier to turn any discussion into a funny and usually obscene joke!

Enjoy!

Email masking with Javascript

mike — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 01:12:17 +0000

Really simple code for hiding your email address:

email me

Probably lots of other, better ways around but this is easy enough to remember without needing to search every time.

Pretty sweet that I didn’t post all of 2008 and now I’ve posted two days in a row huh?

Developing iPhone Software

mike — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 17:41:24 +0000

I’ve recently started writing iPhone Software and it is a frustrating yet satisfying process. Objective-C is an interesting language and was actually a lot of fun to learn. The Cocoa Touch SDK seems more frustrating because there is somewhat of a lack of example code and open source software due to the Apple’s iPhone NDA that was recently lifted. Thankfully Apple’s documentation is fairly complete and there are a few great resources such as Jeff LaMarche’s iPhone Development Blog.

I hope to start releasing some simple free apps and maybe even a more complex game or application in the near future. I have a few ideas bouncing around in my head but if you’ve got something in mind that you’d like to see on the iPhone, please drop me a line.

iPhone Programming Resources:

“The Hillegass Book”: Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X. Not specific to Cocoa Touch, but this is a great introduction to the Objective C language and the Cocoa framework (which is very similar to Cocoa Touch)
Apple’s iPhone Dev Center has lots of sample code and full documentation of Cocoa Touch and other Apple frameworks
Jeff LaMarche’s iPhone Development Blog is a great resource and has some interesting OpenGL demos with sample code