Client-side web design frameworks

A short list:

• Foundation - doesn't work in IE8, and doesn't even degrade gracefully
• Bootstrap - from Twitter. Works in IE8
• Alternatives are available

See all commit messages in svn log

After merging a branch to trunk, subversion does not include commit logs from branches in the trunk log. With a little work it can be persuaded to display the log in a more useful way, see "svnlogg" perl script below.

When viewing this log output you may want to see the diff of one of the changes and naively type:

    svn diff -c 69271

...this may produce no output. However, if you type this intead:

    svn diff -c 69271 https://www.example.com/repo/branches/feature_xyz

...then you will see the expected output.

How to determine the branch name from the commit message is left as an exercise for the reader.


"svnlogg" perl script:

#!/usr/bin/env perl

# First, get all the commits.
# -v shows the filenames of changed files,
# -g shows commits from all merged branches.

my $LOG_TEMP = "/tmp/log.txt";

system("svn log -v -g > $LOG_TEMP");

# Then split the list into individual commits, filter out ones we don't want to see, and sort by date:

open(my $fh,"<",$LOG_TEMP) or die "cannot open file $LOG_TEMP";
local $/="------------------------------------------------------------------------"; # define the record separator
my @a = <$fh>; # populate an array with the commit messages
foreach my $aa (
    sort {
        # sort the commits by date (descending)
        my ($c) = $a =~ /\s\|\s(\d\d\d\d\-\d\d\-\d\d)\s/; # extract date field
        my ($d) = $b =~ /\s\|\s(\d\d\d\d\-\d\d\-\d\d)\s/; #
        $d cmp $c
    } @a
) {
    # exclude unwanted messages, especially the hundreds of "remove svn:mergeinfo"
    # also exclude the commit messages we use by convention in our organisation
    # to refer to branches and merges
    if ($aa !~ /(remove svn:mergeinfo|branching|final pull)/i) {
        print "$aa\n";
    }
}

Depending on your hardware it may be unusably slow, so pipe it into a file for viewing later.

Outlook 2007 autocomplete doesn't work

It really doesn't.

I tried these things:

• Adding the name to my contacts list
• Composing and sending an email to the contact (source)
• Tools | Address Book | Tools | Options | Check names using these address lists | Contacts

Some names are auto-completed, but some aren't.

:-(

Do you know how to make it work? Leave a comment

Git: Change author name in all previous commits

On any branch, or trunk:

git filter-branch --commit-filter 'if [ "$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME" = "Josh Lee" ];
  then export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="Hobo Bob"; export GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL=hobo@example.com;
       export GIT_COMMITTER_NAME="Hobo Bob"; export GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL=hobo@example.com;
fi; git commit-tree "$@"'

(source)

Linux package managers

A list:

• rpm
• yum - works with rpms
• zypper (suse)
• pkgsrc (cross-platform, builds from source)
• yast (works on suse)

Debugging Perl in Emacs

Notes only:

• http://search.cpan.org/~yewenbin/Emacs-PDE-0.2.16/lib/Emacs/PDE.pm
• http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/PerlLanguage
• http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CPerlMode
• http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/YEWENBIN/Emacs-PDE-0.2.16/lisp/doc/QuickStartEn.html