Naturally, a lot of my search engine traffic comes here from searching for terms like “system root in <insert language here>” or “%systemroot%”. So, to live up to my domain, and you Googler’s expectations, I’ve decided to write a post about how to get the path to the system root in a few languages. If you know more, drop a comment and I’ll add it here.
Read the rest of this entry »Saving to a Custom Binary File Format with Versioning February 28, 2012 – 9:35
While working on Fondusi’s I came up with a great way to store the map data (or any binary data, really) in such a way that previous files could be loaded using new versions of the software. It has some great capabilities and, after answering a question about it on gamedev.StackExchange, I thought it might be helpful to write a post about it here.
Read the rest of this entry »Word 2007 Quick Tip – How to show invisible table borders/gridlines February 27, 2012 – 13:07
Every time I reinstall Word, I always forget where in the settings I can turn on the display of table gridlines. I find it really frustrating that it’s not on by default since, when you can’t see the invisible borders of cells, you can’t tell how many cells make up a section of white space. So, for my future reference and your benefit (hopefully) :), here’s how you turn on gridlines (table borders) in Office 2007.
Read the rest of this entry »Subversion – Move folder in one repository to its own repo (in Windows) using svndumpfilter February 25, 2012 – 15:30
Source Control — 1 — dump, export repository, source control, subversion, svn, svnadmin, svndumpfilter, windows
I recently wanted to clean up a subversion repository of mine and move some of the larger folders/projects into their own repository. There’s not much documentation on how to do this in Windows (what I primarily use) which is the main reason why I wanted to share this info.
Now, in the past, I’d moved whole repos using the svnadmin dump command, but now I had to make sure that I only got revisions related to a specific folder. Fortunately, there’s this handy little program that comes with subversion called svndumpfilter. This little tool lets you filter out revisions from an svn dump based on a path in the repo. It will even renumber the revisions for you so that when you load the new dump file into it’s own repo, the revisions will all be in order starting from revision 1.
Ok, let’s get to it!
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Hey there! My name is Richard Marskell and I'm the co-founder of LBC IT Solutions, Inc.. I've been developing websites, apps and even games for over 22 years.
I previously worked at a leading Canadian market research company for 8.5 years, managing their tech team and projects—everything from project & resource management to designing client websites.
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