What is Subversion (SVN)?

Subversion is a tool for revision control. Possibly most people know one of the main features of revision control. It is implemented in most editing softwares. You can find it in the (however you call it): history-or-undo-redo-functions. If you recognize that you did some shit editing e.g. your MS-Word-Document you can step back to the version before the shit happened using the undo-function. Subversion is a tool doing exactly this with some more features:

• you never loose your previous version. (e.g. in the MS-Office-Tools you loose your history when you close the file)
• one version can include multiple files
• support for a multi-user-environment working on the same versions
• you can easily reload a specific version
• you have integration in different IDEs

A detailed description can be found in wikipedia.

In my company we are using subversion for nearly two years now. It was a choice between CVS and SVN because both were open source and free and our external partner for software development used CVS. 'Cause SVN was said to be the successor of CVS and it removed some restrictions of the CVS we decided to start with SVN. In the meantime our partner also migrated to SVN.

Import old postings

This is my first posting. It is about how to get my postings of my old blog to this new one.

The procedure how to do this is discribed here. The problem is that the function Import->Movable Type is not working… So I gonna try this some days later…

UPDATE: As you can see below: one day later it worked! Two points I didn't like much with the rss2mt:

1. it cutted the end of my posting with [...]
2. my formattings were gone

So i did this manually for each posting;-(

visual basic – regular expression example

Output of the following code-snippet would be: robert kleineikenscheidt

Dim re As RegExp
Set re = New RegExp
Dim s As String
re.Pattern = " r.*kleineikenscheidt"
s = "this is robert kleineikenscheidt in biberach"
Dim matches As MatchCollection
Set matches = re.Execute(s)
Dim match As Match
For Each match In matches
    Debug.Print = match.ValueNext
Next

You can find more detailed information and a short reference here.

Screen capturing – comparison

I tested the following (windows only)

1. The MS Windows default capturing (alt+)print with MSPaint
2. Mirek's MWSnap (free)
3. Deluxe screen capturing with the commercial SnagIt (Free Trial, $29.95 to buy)

For the first point – windows default capturing – u dont need any additional software installed