Blog of Robert Kan » Development http://www.robertkan.net/blog web and software development, cRPG Sun, 12 Dec 2010 16:16:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Chrome Experiments – impressive http://www.robertkan.net/blog/2010/07/26/chrome-experiments-impressive http://www.robertkan.net/blog/2010/07/26/chrome-experiments-impressive#comments Mon, 26 Jul 2010 06:32:39 +0000 Robert http://www.robertkan.net/blog/?p=275 Things done using JS on www.chromeexperiments.com made my day today :) I hope to see a lot of remakes of old scene demos using js soon :)

]]> http://www.robertkan.net/blog/2010/07/26/chrome-experiments-impressive/feed 0 Google “Let’s make the web faster” initiative http://www.robertkan.net/blog/2009/06/24/google-lets-make-the-web-faster-initiative http://www.robertkan.net/blog/2009/06/24/google-lets-make-the-web-faster-initiative#comments Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:05:56 +0000 Robert http://www.robertkan.net/blog/?p=234 Google has posted quite interesting post on their official blog, especially for everyone in web industry. On their newly introduced Google Speed page they have published a list of best practices, tutorials, tools and advices to make web faster with help of all of us, the people involved in creating the Web. Personally I’m big fan of such initiatives as they aim to improve quality of our work and as a final effect – improve web as a whole.

]]> http://www.robertkan.net/blog/2009/06/24/google-lets-make-the-web-faster-initiative/feed 0 Failed to load module for FS type ‘bdb’ in TortoiseSVN 1.6.x http://www.robertkan.net/blog/2009/05/15/failed-to-load-module-for-fs-type-bdb-in-tortoisesvn-16x http://www.robertkan.net/blog/2009/05/15/failed-to-load-module-for-fs-type-bdb-in-tortoisesvn-16x#comments Fri, 15 May 2009 10:05:30 +0000 Robert http://www.robertkan.net/blog/?p=206 Today I’ve met small problem with my beloved TortoiseSVN client. I was in need to access some old repository stored locally on my computer – for newer projects I’m usingdedicated Debian based SVN server. Anyway, trying to access to my local repository via TortoiseSVN has resulted with following message:

Failed to load module for FS type 'bdb'

After quick Googling it appeared that from branch 1.6.x, TortoiseSVN doesn’t support local file:/// repositories based on BDB and they need to be converted to new FSFS format using ‘svnadmin’ command line tool as it is explained in SVNBook. As ‘svnadmin’ tool is not present in TortoiseSVN, some additional work is needed.

Finally I did in following way:

  1. download and  Tigris build of SVN (it was svn-win32-1.6.1.zip in my case). I’ve tried both 1.5.x and 1.6.x version of CollabNet’s SVN but apparently they do not support local BDB as well,
  2. unpack it to any directory, and using command line enter to the bin subdirectory where the svnadmin.exe tool is stored
  3. as written in the book, make dump of your repository with following command:
    4. svnadmin dump c:\FullPathToOldRepository > dumpfile.bin
  4. create new repository in choosen directory, you can use TorotoiseSVN for it as well, now it won’t ask you for data storage format as BDB is disabled, so it will use FSFS.
  5. import dump data into new repository:
    6. svnadmin load c:\FullPathToNewRepository < dumpfile.bin

That is, it worked for me like a charm.

]]> http://www.robertkan.net/blog/2009/05/15/failed-to-load-module-for-fs-type-bdb-in-tortoisesvn-16x/feed 12 Ultimate list of SVN resources http://www.robertkan.net/blog/2009/03/11/ultimate-list-of-svn-resources http://www.robertkan.net/blog/2009/03/11/ultimate-list-of-svn-resources#comments Wed, 11 Mar 2009 08:17:19 +0000 Robert http://www.robertkan.net/blog/?p=184 Smashing Magazine has published great list of Subversion related resources, including tools, books, articles links, hosting offers etc.  It’s definitely worth checking especially for those that still don’t use any version controlling system.

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]]> http://www.robertkan.net/blog/2007/10/04/shawn-hargreaves-is-working-at-microsoft/feed 0 Well designed sites gallery http://www.robertkan.net/blog/2006/12/04/well-designed-sites-gallery http://www.robertkan.net/blog/2006/12/04/well-designed-sites-gallery#comments Mon, 04 Dec 2006 09:30:17 +0000 Robert http://www.blog.robertkan.net/2006/12/04/well-designed-sites-gallery/ Patrick Haney presents a Flickr gallery with over 300 screenshots of nicely designed websites. If You seek for inspiration it is really worth to be seen.

]]> http://www.robertkan.net/blog/2006/12/04/well-designed-sites-gallery/feed 0 A list of cool Web 2.0 applications http://www.robertkan.net/blog/2006/11/23/a-list-of-cool-web-20-applications http://www.robertkan.net/blog/2006/11/23/a-list-of-cool-web-20-applications#comments Thu, 23 Nov 2006 08:36:40 +0000 Robert http://www.blog.robertkan.net/2006/11/23/a-list-of-cool-web-20-applications/ A very nice list of selected and categorized Web 2.0 applications is located there. It’s definitely worth to be checked out as there are numerous cool solutions listed.

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