July 2009 Entries

What to do when Suversion Cleanup fails again and again?

What do yo do when the 'Cleanup' commands fails and then tells you to run the 'Cleanup' command to fix your issues and then promptly fails again? Before you pull out all your remaining hair because of this wonderful 'Cleanup Circle of Doom' you can do the following. Run the command and make note of the file path that Subversion is having issues with Make a copy of the problem directory elsewhere on your local machine (outside of you subversion project structure)  In you subversion project directory delete the problem directory ...

posted @ Monday, July 20, 2009 3:56 PM | Feedback (1)

Why you should build Open Source projects yourself

The Scenario On most of my recent projects I've been using a combination of NHibernate, ASP.Net MVC, and Migratordotnet. For testing I've been using MbUnit, Moq, and SQLite.  I'm pretty happy with this suite of tools but one issue I've ran into on when starting my last few projects. When I need to access a database from my tests, usually in order to verify my mappings, I create a new SQLite database and then run my migrations against the SQLite database. One a new project I'll usually begin using NHibernate's Schema Export tool to create my schema until the databas schema...

posted @ Sunday, July 19, 2009 10:22 PM | Feedback (0)