Source Control

Tue, 03 Apr 2007 12:23:44 +0200

I was thinking, I really should have something that can control my development of any programs that I write. But, as I am sure with most people, I don't want a full-blown server to control the versions of my applications. I want a quick tool that I can 'just use'.

So, sometime soon, I will release a little application that does that. It uses SQLite3 as a back-end database (serverless) to control the files for my applications. I have doen most of it - it's pretty manual at the moment, but that'll change over time I guess.

This is how it looks at the moment. I can store files and update them with an automatic method. It isn't too clever at the moment - bit this is the first stab.

The differences in files screenshot is shown below:

Looks good for now, but I'm still working on it - soon as I am done, I'll let you know.

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Mon, 02 Apr 2007 22:52:24 +0200

My first blog, so it's my first thoughts I guess. Well not a lot to say at the moment. I am trying to work on some sort of new operating system thingy. I was searching round and found LFS (Linux From Strach). Looks good I thought - good place to start, looking at someone else's examples, so I downloaded it.

That's when (being a Windows XP user) I hit the first block - it's a tar file. XP doesn't have anything to natively extract tar files, and WinZip and event 7Zip require installation and the such. Couldn't be bothered with that, so here ya go: a simple to use .tar file extracter.

TarExtract.exe

I knocked it up quickly in Visual Studio 2005 - so you'll need the .Net 2.0 framework. I haven't done an installation program, as that just wastes space for most people (well, the sort of people who'll be trying to extract .tar files anyway).

As I did it quickly there might be a few odd bugs - if there let me know in the comments for now.

I personally added it to my 'Send To' list.

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