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OpenMoko Shop in Switzerland and Europe
I need a new mobile phone and i am currently thinking about buying an OpenMoko. So i searched for the easiest and cheapest way to get one and found this European OpenMoko Shop which operates from Switzerland which is even better because i am myself a swiss guy.
So if you plan to purchase an OpenMoko Phone from Europe this may be the way to go.
Marc
C#|.Net Performance Considerations
At work i am currently busy implementing a so called "WebService" (in my case a xml file is send via HTTP POST method to me and i have to return an accurate response).
During this and out of general interest i searched for C# and performance related best practices. A quick google search turned up the following chapter Improving Managed Code Performance of a Microsoft publication which might be quite interesting.
Marc
Converting a hg Repository to git
Okay it seems that lately i am spending quite a bit of time with various tasks in different source control mangement systems.
Today i decided to switch my little qemu-gui project from hg to git. The only reason is that i can use the public git hosting offerings of repo.co.cz. First i tried to convert the repository with tailor, however for some reason i couldn't make it work within 5-10 minutes. So i gave hg-to-git a chance and it worked immediately.
So there is now a public git repository online for qemu-gui.
Marc
Moving a Subversion Repository from one Server to Another
Today at work i had to move a SVN repository from my local virtual server to another company wide accessible one. The following worked quite well.
svnadmin dump /path/to/repository > repository.dumpThen optionally compress the resulting dump and transfer it to the other machine via preferably with scp. On the remote machine do the following:
cd /path/to/new-repository
svnadmin create repository-name
svnadmin load repository-name < repository.dump
By the way, you probably ask why we don't use a modern distributed version control system. The answer is that most development actually still happens within CVS (*outch*) and we are a near windows-only shop so TortoiseSVN comes in handy for most peoples here who are too scared to actually touch the command line.
PS: yes i should blog a bit more, but had to do other real life(tm) things recently hope this improves over time.
So long, Marc
It is done -- I passed my exam with a final score of 5.6
So it's true today i received my exam results and i passed with a final score of 5.6 (the maximum is 6.0 for those of you who are not familiar with the swiss education system). So after 4 years of my apprenticeship i can call myself an "Informatiker (Modular)". Whether i actually learned a lot through the school is another question ;)
But anyway i am looking forward to next thursday where my degree party is taking place in bern.
Marc
