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How Differential Gears Works

David Mohorn — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:44:32 GMT

I stumbled across these videos on our differential gears work. Pretty interesting.

Changing Saved User in TortoiseSVN

David Mohorn — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 07:15:07 GMT

When you access your SVN repository, your SVN client will prompt you for authentication information. If you choose to save the information, the next time you use your repository, you will not be prompted for your credentials. This is great most of the times, but what happens when you need to access your repository using a different credential? Well, fear no more. Follow these easy steps to clear out your saved data:

From Explorer, right-click the root folder
Select TortoiseSVN
Select Settings
Click “Saved Data'”
Under “Authentication data”, click the “Clear” button

Now the next time you access your repository, you will be prompted for your credentials all over.

Notepad++ Subversion Plugin

David Mohorn — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:59:55 GMT

I’ve been a long-time user of UltraEdit, but over the years as new features keep getting added, it has been getting more bloated and annoying to use. One important feature that it seems to be lacking is SVN support; which evidently is only available in EUStudio product. I suppose I could use the external command option, but lately I’ve been drawn to using Notepad++.

Fortunately, I ran across the Notepad++ SVN Plugin which seems to do the trick and integrates nicely.

This plugin still relies on the command-line features of TortoiseSVN.

SQL Server Management Studio and TortoiseSVN

David Mohorn — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:57:43 GMT

I have been scouring the web trying to find a solution for integrating SVN control within SQL Server Management Studio. Unfortunately, SSMS doesn’t appear to have any SVN add-ons the way Microsoft Visual Studio does today, using VisualSVN or AnknSVN. Red Gate appears to have something brewing for 2010 that looks to be very promising named SQL Source Control.

In the meantime, I ran across this post which actually provided me enough information to use the “External Tools” extensibility within SSMS for TortoiseSVN integration.

Here are the commands:

Title: SVN Commit
Command: C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin\TortoiseProc.exe
Arguments: /Command:commit /path:"$(SolutionDir)
Initial directory: $(SolutionDir)

Title: SVN Update
Command: C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin\TortoiseProc.exe
Arguments: /Command:update /path:"$(SolutionDir)"
Initial directory: $(SolutionDir)

Title: SVN Log (Solution)
Command: C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin\TortoiseProc.exe
Arguments: /Command:log /path:"$(SolutionDir)"
Initial directory: $(SolutionDir)

Title: SVN Log (Current Item)
Command: C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin\TortoiseProc.exe
Arguments: /Command:log /path:"$(ItemFileName)$(ItemExt)"
Initial directory: $(ItemDir)

Title: SVN Diff
Command: C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin\TortoiseProc.exe
Arguments: /Command:diff /path:"$(ItemFileName)$(ItemExt)"
Initial directory: $(ItemDir)

Update: I happen to run across this MSSCCI compliant SVN-SCC plug-in called Agent SVN. Unfortunately, the configuration program didn’t seem to want to launch from Windows 2008 Server. Maybe you will have better luck?

SkyDrive Explorer

David Mohorn — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:54:21 GMT

Ran across this nifty Explorer add-on for Microsoft Windows Live Skydrive.

iPhone Better than Palm Treo 700W Smartphone

David Mohorn — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 02:17:59 GMT

Since I have been really busy lately and haven't had the opportunity to blog that much, I was inspired tonight to write about the iPhone.

I recently made the plunge and purchased an Apple iPhone 3G 16GB model.

My previous phone was a Palm Treo 700W Smartphone that I purchased about 3+ years ago. At the time it was the best phone in the world, but it was severely lacking in usability. Trying to use the phone features, in and of itself, with one hand was almost impossible. Especially if you hit the wrong button and then had to click the "X" in the upper-right corner of the screen. Try doing this while driving is nuts!

I later installed TomTom on the Treo and purchased an external GPS receiving and the phone has never worked right since. It would frequently pop-up TomTom when a call was received, when the phone was turned on, or any other system event on the phone. It was very frustrating and that issue along with the poor usability is what prompted me to shop for an replacement telephone.

The iPhone is simply the best phone I have ever owned. I have only had the phone for about 3 weeks now and find it 100% cool. Not just because I'm a gadget geek either. The fact that I can keep it in-sync similar to my iPod for postcast, pull video postcast from the 3G network, or use a local WiFi connection has almost made me want to ditch my iPod. Space is my only limiting factor right now... But I can leave with that and just sync the important stuff that I really care about.

Having the ability to use the telephone with one hand and not have to finger my way thru the screens by selecting tiny buttons and other options or using a stylus is awesome.

The iPhone 3.0 firmware is expected to be released in June 2009. It will be a free upgrade for existing iPhone owners and cost $10 for current iTouch owners.

I can hardly wait to use the new features!

Test Your Internet Bandwidth

David Mohorn — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 03:18:15 GMT

I find www.speedtest.net to be the very best Internet bandwidth speed tester available. If you haven't checked your bandwidth yet, you should!

SQL Server 2008 RTM Available

David Mohorn — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 02:01:55 GMT

In case you haven't noticed, SQL Server 2008 has been released to manufacturing as of 08/05/08. If you're an MSDN subscriber, you may download it now!

vmWare: Installing Windows XP on ESX using LSI Logic Driver

David Mohorn — Tue, 06 May 2008 03:31:19 GMT

I have been having fun the past couple of days installing ESX 3.02 under vmWare Workstation 6.

I won't bore you with all the technical details, however there is an excellent write-up here.

I have since ran into a snag when trying to install XP under my virtualized copy of ESX. During the XP setup, XP would complain that it could not find my HD. I ran across this wondering article which worked flawlessly. I did, however, use the BusLogic driver.

MSTSC.EXE - no more /console switch in RDC 6.1

David Mohorn — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 02:42:54 GMT

One of the changes to RDC 6.1 client released with Windows 2008 is the removal of the /console switch.

The following post explains the changes.