Subversion offers a nice “export” command which will export a clean copy of your project. This is very useful for distributing source code without the .svn folders which are present in the working copy. However, there are times when you will find yourself in front of a deep hierarchy of code which was provided by someone who just zipped up their working copy with all the .svn folders included.

Removing these folders is easy on *nix systems, by doing something like this:

find . -type d -name ‘.svn’ -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rdf

However, this elegant solution is not possible on Windows. So, how do you do it? You could write a quick script (Python, Ruby, etc) or use Ant to perform the task, but if you’re using Total Commander you can do this very easily in a few quick steps:

• Invoke a search (Alt+F7) from the projects root directory
• Search for .svn
• When the results are displayed, click the “Feed to listbox” button (bottom right)
• In the list that appears select all the folders and delete (Shift-F8)

Tags: Subversion, Total Commander

For months now I’ve been thinking of revamping the outdated homepage of my site. I liked the idea of including “headlines” of the few feeds I provide, so I started looking for an easy way to do so. Everyone seemed to recommend MagpieRSS so I gave it a spin and it worked perfectly from the start. It took just a few moments to set up, a few more to configure the format of the display and a little more to integrate it visually into my homepage. Within minutes I had headlines of 4 feeds displayed and together with other enhancements I made I’m quite happy with how it looks now. Thanks MagpieRSS!

Tags: MagpieRSS

The SimpleTags plugin is my first WordPress plugin. It was something I desperately needed and since I couldn’t find a plugin that would fully suit my needs I wrote this one. I hope someone else finds it useful too.

SimpleTags is a WordPress plugin that will allow you to easily generate Technorati tags at the bottom of your blog entries, like the ones below this post. There are several plugins already available for this purpose, but AFAIK, they all require you to use custom fields within WordPress. The SimpleTags plugin eliminates this need, so you can now easily generate tags with your preferred method of posting, be it by email, a blogging tool like w.bloggar or from WordPress itself.

SimpleTags was inspired by TechnoTag. Thanks Gudlyf!

Tags: SimpleTags, Technorati Tags, Word Press

If you run a website you know how finding the right host can be time consuming, stressful and risky. I’ve run across hosts with poor support, lack of all-around administration knowledge, poor uptime and lack of willingness to resolve issues. Well, for over a year now I have no such problems, so I thought I’d share my experience. DoorHost.net is a relatively small host, but one with fantastic support and dedication for its users. We all run into problems, and it’s the way we get help for those problems that makes hosting services stand out.

The guys at DoorHost rarely sleep (or so it seems) and are always lurking around their friendly forum, helping out people with both serious and naive problems, even those that they don’t really have to deal with. Eric, the founder of DoorHost, is a guru in his field and has always been able to provide a solution to any problems I had. It is fantastic to have confidence in people running a service and a peace of mind knowing that everything is running smoothly and that if it doesn’t, someone will do everything in their power to fix the issue as quickly as possible.

So, if you’re looking around for reliable, friendly, stress-free and affordable hosting, look no further than DoorHost. You’ll love it too.

Finding the perfect web host can be quite the task. With so many web hosting services that are available it can be difficult to know which one will be best for you and your website. You need to find a dedicated server offering the type of web hosting you need. Do you want colocation, unix, linux, windows or some other kind of hosting? These are all questions you need to ask yourself when you begin your search.

Tags: Doorhost, Hosting

In the world of full blown desktop search utilities such as Copernic Desktop Search and Google DS it might be hard to imagine why someone would use a filename search utility. Well, I very often find myself searching for particular files, not by content but by name (yeah, I still have a good memory for the useless little things) and the big guys are quite clumsy for that task, not seeing the forest for the trees (maybe it’s just me…). So after years of frustrations with some poor implementations of file searching apps I finally found the one I’ve been looking for - Locate32.

This is a very smart, quality application, based on updatedb and locate apps for Unix systems, which performs its main task extremely well and fast - searches for files by filenames on your hard, removable and network drives. It can be fully driven from the keyboard, returns results extremely fast, doesn’t use 100% CPU like some other tools (hardly went over 3% while indexing) and is a pleasure to use overall.

Although quite safe, RSS is not completely vulnerable to attacks. If you are working on a feed reader or just want to feel safe using one, here is a nice way to check out for any potential risks.

View this feed in your preferred RSS aggregator to test its security settings. This feed will not do any harm to your computer, but will give a visible alert when your aggregator is possibly unsafe.

This test is provided by IzyNews, an interesting RSS to IMAP service (enables you to view your RSS feeds in an IMAP client).