Tag: General

I don’t code in C# very frequently, but every once in a while you need to hack something together for a small windows program… The site Java2cs has a nice, fairly usable reference for those of us used to the Java nomenclature and such. Every example includes a complete source file, which can be quite… Continue reading Java 2 CS

Ah… SQL Server. How I loathe thee. For example, here are all the annoying things that I have to remember. You specify a port number with a comma, not the standard colon: dbserver,1434 char fields return with padded spaces… I imagine I’ll add to this list as I find other things.

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

Need to figure out what is taking up so much space on your hard drive? Try WinDirStat (Windows). Pretty pictures…

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

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

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

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

I’m trying out the wordpress plugin Code Markup by Bennett McElwee. We’ll see how well it works…

The Apache project Lucene has gotten a lot of attention as a good open source search platform.  Any one who needs search capabilities should consider Lucene in their due diligence.