Archive for March 2009

March 21, 2009

How To Prevent .DS_Store Creation in OS X

One of my favorite applications is Jungle Disk I use it as part of my backup strategy. Since I am on a Mac and the Mac OS X generates a ton of those pesky little .DS_Store files everywhere. These files are small but do take up space and time when uploading backups to the Amazon [...]

March 12, 2009

GrandCentral is Now Google Voice

It’s been a long time coming… GrandCentral the voice communications company Google bought awhile ago (July 2007) has been Googleized. It’s now called Google Voice. The new site was rolled out last night. Currently, Google Voice is in closed beta. GrandCentral users can start upgrading to Google Voice sometime today. They have added a bunch [...]

March 4, 2009

How to Connect Subversions to Xcode

Subversions is of course the awesome Open Source file versioning system. Xcode is the Objective-C developing environment for Mac / iPhone apps. Xcode 3 now supports access to Subversions Repositories. How To Connect Subversions to Xcode You must already have Subversions setup on a server / your local machine / or on a 3rd party [...]

March 4, 2009

How to Connect to Subversions with Versions

I am currently testing the Versions.app Subversions GUI client for MAC OS X. I’m obviously pretty new to the SVN world, but so far this app seems pretty easy to use. How to Connect to Subversions with Versions 1. Install Versions.app 2. Click Add Repository Bookmark 3. In the locations field enter: svn+ssh://username@your-domain.com/path-to-your-root-folder/svn_repos/your-repo-name 4. Enter [...]

March 4, 2009

Setting Up Subversion on JaguarPc

Even though I have known about Subversion [SVN] for awhile now, I have never really taken the time to setup a server and client to backup my sites and projects. This week however, I have been attending an iPhone conference – where SVN has come up no less than 30x. So tonight I decided to [...]