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Friday, October 17, 2008

SVN woes

So I'm trying to sort out exactly what is going on with the svn repositories for the installer code I've been working on.  The symptoms seem to be that the svn client is creating repositories that the webdav svn apache module cannot interpret because they are in a newer file system version.  I saw this because of the apache error log message:
[Fri Oct 17 15:52:22 2008] [error] [client ##.##.##.###] (20014)Internal error: Expected FS format '2'; found format '3'

and this is displayed in the browser
Could not open the requested SVN filesystem

When I go out to search on the web all I can find is that webdav svn isn't supposed to work with apache 2.2.  I do have other svn repos that were made with earlier releases of tortoisesvn and svnadmin that do work still, so I'm completely confused at this point.

What I'm doing now is testing with Wamp to see if I should switch.  Just testing on a vm right now, but hopefully it works...






Update:
I was able to get everything working with existing installation of the apache 2.2 web server already on that machine. I downloaded the latest stable release windows binary from http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=8100 After recreating the repository that I wasn't able to connect to previously everything started working. (I also had to update my mod_dav_svn.so apache module with the latest release from that same zip).

Server stuff

It seems like I've been doing a lot of support related stuff lately and not really digging in developing anything.  I've got a couple of projects that I've been wanting to get into, but with all the server config I've been doing lately, its been hard to get time to really dig in.  (suppose it doesn't help that I was sick in bed all day yesterday either)

Exciting news... I am supposed to get my macbook pro tomorrow, and I'm a little stoked about it.  I've had the dell laptop and homebrew pc combo for as long as I can remember now, so it will be nice to just have the one machine to use. Turning the desktop into a solaris: zfs backup server.  I've been wanting to mess with zfs for some time now.  Supposed to be a top of the line software raid solution.

As for school: I haven't been to my gov/politcs or econ classes for about two weeks.  Yesterday I had a test in the gov but I made a 90/100 so I was relatively pleased with that since I only studied for about an hour for about 3 weeks worth of information.  Gonna work on Sunday and Monday, so I am going to have to start studying for econ tonight at some point.

Suppose I should get back sneezing a little more (still not 100%) and making some money.

Monday, October 13, 2008

GPS data from a blackberry

I want to find a way to access GPS Data on a blackberry. I have a couple of ideas for mobile apps that I would like to tie into some of Google's data services. I know that there's a huge push in the newly sprung location based marketing area, but I would like to tie this into a couple of applications I plan on getting started on once my Christmas ...hrmm I mean Winter holiday... break allows for some more coding time.

Ideally for testing it would be nice to access a stream of GPS data over the USB cable so that I don't get charged for Data transmission on the device. I'm sure Sprint already wants to charge me an arm and a leg if I browse the web anymore than I already do on my Blackberry Pearl...

I found a couple of open source applications that to learn from. http://www.blackberryforums.com/developer-forum/51-updated-open-source-blackberry-apps-develop-your-own.html

Blackberry has a nice JDE eclipse plugin to develop with. So I grabbed that along with the Full JDE to make sure that I had all the source code that TonyB recommended in his answer to my StackOverflow question.


In other news I found some interesting stuff for porting J2ME apps to other platforms using alcheMo. So far it looks like it supports BREW, iPhone, and Windows Mobile. Sounds interesting enough, but I couldn't find anything to download and play with. Hopefully there's more news of this to come in the future...

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I have been working with computers/programming to put myself through college since I graduated high school. I am currently attending Oklahoma State University for bachelors degree in biological sciences. Along with my experience in programming, a degree in biology will allow me to pursue a career in bioinformatics research concerning genetic diseases (i.e. cancer).

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