Mirmo Dynamics

It's been brought to my attention today (by my fellow developper hartym) that there is a HUGE problem with tags in subversion.

The problem is very simple, when you create a tag for your project, and that your project uses svn:externals (quite a common situation), externals in the tags ARE NOT FROZEN. Which means that, if you checkout your tag at a T time, and an external gets modified at T+x, a checkout at T+x will not be the same than the one at T.

Wow.

I'm going to seriously consider switching to git.

I was gently doing some ajax black voodoo when I came upon this obscure-ish error in my firebug console:

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x805e000a [nsIXMLHttpRequest.open]"  nsresult: 0x805e000a (<unknown>)"

What the fuck I though. And then after some (useless) firefox rebooting, I decided to ask the all-mighty Google.

No shit, he said, I know what you are talking about, and thou shall find more informations at this place, and to point me to this thread, where you can read the following:

AdBlock Plus was killing it HAH!

And then I disabled AdBlock Plus, and exactly as the writings told, it worked.

Yesterday, I had a bug with my iphone that prevented me to use the touchscreen. Weird. No problem I though, I'll just reboot the damn thing and it'll be fine. Except you need the touch screen to turn the iPhone off. After a few manipulation and frustration, I found out that you can actually reboot the iphone by holding the power button and main button simultaneously for a few seconds. Handy heh.

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Thinking about it, the snippet I posted earlier was a bit silly as vim can open by itself multiple files way more efficiently. The only benefit from my script is that I don't have to type the --servername and --remote-silent-tab.

So let's add some usefulness ! First, when I need this script, it's often that I first grepped the files, and then decide that I want to edit them all. From this point of view, having to pass them as arguments is not that handy, so we'll add a way to pass them via STDIN.

Also, what if I want to send them to another vim server ? We'll add this ability too.

Here is the resulting script:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# set a default SERVERNAME
SERVERNAME="ash0"

# look for files on stdin
if ! [ -t 0 ]; then
  FILES=`cat /dev/stdin`
else
  exit;
fi;

# now let's check if we want a specific vim server
if ! [ -z $1 ]; then
  SERVERNAME=$1
fi;

# we can now open the files
/usr/bin/gvim --servername $SERVERNAME --remote-silent-tab $FILES

Tada !

You can now do the followings:

grep foo | sendtovim
grep foo | sendtovim grep0

http://www.eightprinciples.com/

(via pmog)

Using a single (and somewhat simple) shell line, you can rename any directory to its lowercase version.

for i in *; do lcase=`echo $i | tr A-Z a-z`; if [ ! -d $lcase ]; then mv $i $lcase; fi; done;

Viva el chell !

Les utilisateurs du framework symfony ont désormais leur cafet' dédiée pour aller prendre un ptit café ! Pour résumer, symfonians se propose de réunir la petite communauté symfony autour de fonctionnalités aussi conviviales qu'utiles, telles que la création d'un profile développeur symfony, des offres d'emploi, ce genre de choses quoi. Le projet est chapoté par NiKo, ce qui au moins est un gage de bonne qualité.

Je ne sais pas si c'est récent ou non, mais toujours est-il qu'hier j'ai remarqué sur le site de dell france la posibilité d'acheter un ordinateur dell équipé d'Ubuntu Linux. L'initiative est vraiment sympa, d'autant plus que le matériel proposé me semble tout à fait abordable: on arrive à une configuration desktop équipée d'un core duo et d'1 Go de ram plus un écran 19 pouces pour moins de 600 euros (livraison comprise). J'achète.

If you're wondering how much of a hassle it would be to migrate your app / codebase to php5, try the following command line (after having installed the php5-cli package of course):

find . -name "*.php" -exec /usr/bin/php5 -l {} \; | grep -v 'No syntax errors'

It'll show you all the files with syntax errors in it.