Monthly Archive for November, 2010

Command line for using WinMerge as the diff tool with Ankhsvn

Published on November 17, 2010. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

Following is the command line you need to use WinMerge as the diff tool of Ankhsvn an SCC provider in Visual Studio:

"$(ProgramFiles)\WinMerge\WinMergeU.exe" /e /u "$(Base)" "$(Mine)" /dl "$(BaseName)" /dr "$(MineName)"

Just quickly the following options do the following things:

  • /e – enables you to dismiss the diff dialogue with the escape key
  • /u – doesn’t add any of the path’s to the winmerge MRU (most recently used file list) since this is part of another workflow inside VS.
  • /dl “$(BaseName)” and /dr “(MineName)” – makes the WinMerge display nice titles in the viewer title bar (instead of the full svn file path which can sometimes be long and cryptic) like this:
    • Web.config – BASE
    • Web.config – 54839

Stumbled upon phonegap

Published on November 12, 2010. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

So someone at work sent me this link to phonegap today.

So these guys have taken the general idea that anyone in mobile development for the past 3 years has had and made it a reality on top of an open-source stack.

Write an app using web technologies (html/js), abstract away the specific device peripherals and capabilities  and then compile it down to native format for each target device.

Sucks that it doesn’t do Windows Phone 7, but still worth a look at for me as it covers off some short term Android and IOS needs.

8Pen software keyboard for android

Published on November 2, 2010. 0 Comments Tags: , .

From over on mobile-crunch.

Looks like a cool approach to the input method. I know swype was well worth the overhead of learning, so suspect this may well be worth it as well.