http://unintelligible.org/blog Sun, 03 Aug 2008 18:50:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Migrating an existing SVN repository to git is pretty easy; here's a quick step-by-step guide (and reminder to myself). Before we start, let's make sure git and git-svn are installed: $ sudo apt-get install git git-core git-svn 1. Getting the code out of Subversion First, use git-svn to get a copy of the remote ... http://unintelligible.org/blog/2008/07/30/migrating-a-subversion-repository-to-a-remote-git-repository/ A slightly older .Net 2 application I wrote for a client to upload files to Amazon S3 makes use of the Amazon S3 SOAP API. The SOAP API has the advantage over the REST API of being able to stream large files as DIME attachements when uploading to the S3 ... http://unintelligible.org/blog/2008/07/27/wse-20-in-visual-studio-2008/ For my own reference, a couple of ways of setting up the Dvorak keyboard in Linux. In Gnome: System > Preferences > Keyboard > Layouts tab > Add button > Dvorak For a single terminal session: loadkeys dvorak Adding that line to .bashrc should result in it applying to all your terminal sessions. For ... http://unintelligible.org/blog/2008/03/15/dvorak-keyboard-in-ubuntuxubuntu/ Paul Graham kindly made this available free of charge in PDF and Postscript formats (here). However, because I wanted to change the printing format (to print it in booklet format, which is two A5 pages per A4 sheet), I was looking for something I could change the layout of, which ... http://unintelligible.org/blog/2008/01/12/paul-grahams-on-lisp-in-a-single-html-page/ I've been using Vim for about 4 months now, and I must admit that I'm not sure how I did without it. Modal editing seems like a natural paradigm to me (similar to lifting your hands off the keyboard to perform operations with the mouse, except without lifting hands from ... http://unintelligible.org/blog/2007/12/17/vi-vi-vi/ Well, I broke the 55WPM mark on the home row this week, but things go downhill pretty rapidly from there. On other exercises I hover between 35 and 45WPM, and on a general typing test I fare much worse (around 33-35WPM on this typing test). So, I'm still pretty far ... http://unintelligible.org/blog/2007/10/01/dvorak-touchtyping-week-4/ Today, I was thinking about Google Apps and wondering whether it used SSL to encrypt email. Now the Gmail POP/SMTP facilities use encryption for any data transferred between the mail client and Google's mail servers, so I would have thought it natural that SSL was used to encrypt any email sent ... http://unintelligible.org/blog/2007/09/28/using-sslhttps-for-gmail-and-google-apps/ Well, better but still far from perfect. I broke the 50WPM barrier on the home row this week, at 98% accuracy too, but I also let up on the regular practise a little (I must have practised two or three times this week for an hour or so at a ... http://unintelligible.org/blog/2007/09/22/dvorak-touchtyping-week-3/ Well, there has been progress, but it has been slow. I'm on around 40-45WPM on the home row (which accounts for 70% of keys in English), but my error rate is still high at round 95-96%. The WPM drops dramatically once I leave the home row though, at around 30-35WPM ... http://unintelligible.org/blog/2007/09/16/dvorak-touchtyping-week-2/ So I'm going to try to learn how to touch-type again; this will be my second attempt, the first being about three months ago. The difference is that this time I'm switching to Dvorak cold-turkey; the last time I had also tried to learn Dvorak, but I think that ... http://unintelligible.org/blog/2007/09/08/dvorak-touchtyping-week-1/