This might help someone out of a tight spot some day...

At my current company we have our SVN repository on a linux box but we develop on Windows machines. This afternoon I checked in a new file (ReadMe.txt) and then afterwards I updated my local respository* and got this error:

Error: Can't copy 'C:\[path]\.svn\tmp\text-base\ReadMe.txt.svn-base' to 'C:\[path]\ReadMe.txt.tmp': The system cannot find the file specified.

It turns out that someone else had already kindly added a Readme.txt to the repository whilst I was out on lunch, but because our repository is case sensitive it okay'ed my checkin and only ran into trouble when I tried to pull the source out again to a non-case sensitive system.

Solution was to delete one of the files from the linux box, now everything is happiness again.

* I know I probably should have done it the other way around, but I thought I was the only one working on the project

One of the highlights of this year's Auto Africa show (and there are many - it is well worth the day out) was Honda's humanoid robot 'Asimo'. Pretty much old news now in terms of the technology and they didn't actually send the latest version, which is a big pity, but it was still fascinating to see it in real life and watch how people were emotionally drawn to the robot.

I thought it would be a good choice for my first video upload to YouTube - sorry for the shaky image, it was taken on my digital camera...

Part 1 of 2:

[YouTube:f0xZjCbzkDA]

Part 2 of 2:

[YouTube:NFlRkqv6upE]

[Update : Sadly it would seem that embedded tags don't work on dotnet.org.za - you can see the vids here]

[Update 2 : Thanks Armand - working perfectly!!!] 

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For those following what we are doing at Red Five Labs (implementing the .NET compact framework for Symbian OS), Mike has a new post detailing an issue we are tackling around playing nicely with the Symbian Signed infrastructure.

Read more here, and if you have any bright ideas please contribute your thoughts on the matter to our internal discussion.

So, which of the dotnet.org.za bloggers (and readers) will be attending Tech-Ed this year? I know Hilton is presenting and Armand and Ernst's chalk and talk sessions are not to be missed - are there any other dotnet.org.za locals involved in the proceedings?

Hope to see you all there!

[Update : Arno will also be presenting!]

[Update2: Willy too] 

Thanks to everyone who responded to my post about recovering the data on my ladies' HD. I think there were some replies that got caught up in all the comment spam i have been wading through so please forgive me if i didn't reply directly to you - I appreciate all the suggestions.

The good news is that I managed to get every bit of the data back using OnTrack EasyRecovery. A very cool addition to anyone's toolbox, it worked like a charm (and it wasn't the first product i tried).

Ever hit F5 when all you wanted to do was compile? This can be a pain, especially with mobile applications because VS also then starts to deploy to the emulator etc etc.

Simple tip - You can cancel the build by using CTRL-Break.

[Thanks jfo's coding]

I learned something new this morning (C# code). How do I implement MyClass to make the following console application print out '42' to the console....?

using System;

public class X {
  static void Main() {
    MyClass s = new MyClass();
    Console.WriteLine((int)s);
  }
}

Similar to Krugle, but from Google. Has the ability to search based on regular expressions, and to filter based on license.

Well, aside from my several week break, things have been pretty busy at Red Five Labs. After several weeks of coding from a deck chair at home (less fun than it sounds, actually) I am now permanently back at work and things have returned to my own special version of 'normal'.

Here at Red Five Labs we have rolled out our first and second iterations of private beta drops and although I am not involved directly in the customer interaction side of things, what I have heard of the feedback is very positive.

I was asked a week or so ago to write a simple GUI application that could be used as a sample in the beta package. I decided a simple Simon implementation might foot the bill and it took an hour or so to write the app. A week of debugging, hair pulling and tweaking followed - to borrow a turn of phrase from Terry Pratchett - "like the unexpected limbo dancer under the lavatory door of Life".

It was a very good exercise though, because I found quite a few issues that hadn't come up previously and got to the bottom of all of them.

So now we have a working version of Simon which shows quite a large part of the Forms functionality we have built. Here are side-by-side screenshots of the Symbian Emulator and the Smartphone Emulator, both running the same program...