Here’s a quick note to remember how to back up Subversion repositories properly… simply doing a copy of the svnrepos file system folder structure does not exactly work. Here’s how I backup my repository svnadmin dump /data/svnrepos > 2007.10.05-svnrepos.dump gzip -9 2007.10.05-svnrepos.dump Here’s the online docs for backup and for migration that explain svnadmin dump… Continue reading SVN Backup and Restore
WinDirStat
Need to figure out what is taking up so much space on your hard drive? Try WinDirStat (Windows). Pretty pictures…
Personal VPN
I use Hamachi to connect to my computers around various firewalls… and there are plenty of places describing how to set up hamachi as a windows service… I have heard good things about OpenVPN, though I haven’t used it myself. If you do use hamachi and want to move files around, you should get proficient… Continue reading Personal VPN
Convert Date Time
JSF has a well known problem with date entry and timezones… luckily those folks working on JBoss Seam have a fix. Just make sure you use the tag instead of the and everything will be peachy.
Vista RDP Hack
I found a very nice and helpful hack for Windows Vista that allows you to turn on Terminal Services Services (also known as Remote Desktop) for Vista Home Premium. Tony Chan explained it on his blog (he got the idea from The Green Button). It involves plopping a few things in the registry, so do… Continue reading Vista RDP Hack
Win2VNC
If you’ve got multiple computers at the same desk, make sure you check out Win2VNC, a great program. It allows you to use the same keyboard and mouse to control both machines. It works in an interesting way… you set up VNC (a remote desktop server) on your secondary computers. Run win2vnc on the primary… Continue reading Win2VNC
Protected: IE6 & Radio Buttons
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Nesting Seam Validation Tags
Here’s an interesting one that caused me to stumble for a while… If you are leveraging Seam’s field-level validation and are mixing it with Rich Faces components, you have to be conscious of how you nest your tags. For example, this caused validation to be skipped: When clicking on the save button, you will bypass… Continue reading Nesting Seam Validation Tags
Cygwin Additions
Whenever reinstalling cygwin, I want to remember to add these modules… and the list is so long that I thought I’d document this list somewhere so I don’t have to remember it all from memory. Modules diffutils lynx ncftp ncurses openssh perl subversion (for svn client only*) tcsh unison [if the version is recent enough]… Continue reading Cygwin Additions
Seam on JBoss AS 4.2
If you want to run JBoss Seam 1.2 on JBoss AS 4.2, you have to take a few extra steps… Luckily, those steps are chronicled here (by Michael Yuan) and here (by Nicolas Leroux). Oh, and Michael’s site has updated samples from his book.