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  • Following twitter without twitter (using rss)

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    Having no twitter account myself (yet?), but still wanting to follow some of my friend’s and colleague’s tweets, I always subscribed to the matching RSS feeds from MS Outlook. Since a twitter update somewhere last year, it has gotten a lot harder to get the right url for the feed, since it is no longer…

  • Issuing SVN commands from UltraEdit

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    Now I am getting used to having VisualSVN around when I am editing from Visual Studio, or the Subversion integration Delphi has (although that is broken since I upgraded to svn 1.7), I sometimes miss it when editing other kinds of files from my favorite UltraEdit text editor. While googling around to see if there…

  • SVN Commit failed, access forbidden

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    Yesterday I had to commit a project to a fresh and new repository on a Subversion server (VisualSVN Server). So I checked out an (empty) working copy, inserted the files, and committed. The files were added, but immediately after that, TortoiseSVN complained: commit failed (details follow): access to ‘/svn/(RepoName)/!svn/act/(someguid)’ forbidden.’ Errr… what? So I verified…

  • SP1 for SQL server 2008R2 brings back Intellisense to SMSS

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    Yay! Installed Service Pack 1 for SQL Server 2008 R2 today. Among other fixes, it brought back IntelliSense support in SQL Server Management Studio, which had been broken since I installed SP1 for Visual Studio 2010 on that machine. So those of you that were bothered by the same issue, are advised to install the…

  • Downloading a video from any website

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    As an aside, completely unrelated to software development, last night I browsed the web and found a video on a blog that I really wanted to save to my harddrive (because you never know if the blogger might take it down later). I tried really hard (yet unsuccesful) to remember what tool I used last…

  • Getting around Truecrypt’s “Windows is not installed on the drive from which it boots”

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    Today I tried to encrypt my drive with TrueCrypt (7.0a). Although I do not plan to loose my laptop, you never know what happens, and there is potentially sensitive data on there from me or my clients. I already successfully did this on several other machines and was not expecting the error message “Windows is…

  • Turning of automatic restart after windows update

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    Today I received my new laptop (yay!). One of the first things I do after setting up a new machine (because if I forget I am sure I’ll shoot myself in the foot at least once before doing so), is turning off allowing Windows Update to restart my computer after it has installed updates. I…

  • Firefox 4 released

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    The Mozilla team released the final version 4 of Firefox (after 10+ betas or so). I like the fact it checks in advance if your plugins will be compatible, which would be the major reason for me to not upgrade if they weren’t. Looks like I’m alright for all plugins that really matter to me,…

  • Hello world!

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    Welcome to WordPress.com. This is your first post. Edit or delete it and start blogging! I think I’ll leave this message as is. I consider it a fitting title for a blog about software development. 🙂