Jonathan Cogley's Blog

Subversion keeps your saved authentication data in a folder on your local workstation.  On my Windows Vista laptop, this folder is C:\Users\jcogley\AppData\Roaming\Subversion\auth\svn.simple.  In this folder, you will find some cryptically named files - one for each Subversion repository authentication information that you have saved.  Using TortoiseSVN you have the option to "Clear Authentication Data" which will clear all saved authentication data.  In most scenarios, that is probably fine - but if you work frequently onsite with customers this can be a pain since the only way to clear the auth data for a sensitive repository is to clear the auth data for everything or remember the directory to go digging around in to find the right file to delete.

The team thinks it should be 5.0 since the new features were pretty huge! :)  The full release notes are here.  The new version includes role based security which allows you to slice and dice the access to various features across your organization.  We also have a new feature that allows you to automatically launch Remote Desktop from a secret which is very convenient. 

The NoVa CodeCamp South v1 will be held on March 29th 2008 in Woodbridge VA.  The speaker schedule has been posted here.

I will be giving a presentation on Refactoring in C# at RockNUG on Wednesday March 12th 2008 at 6:30pm.  Directions here.

Developers look at code for hour upon hour every day.  After some years of doing this, you can just look at something and almost intuitively understand what it is doing - assuming that some effort has been made by the developers to keep the code clear and understandable.  But every now and then, you find a doozy.

You are probably getting ready to hear about some error dialog or weird setting in an application but not this time - it was a photocopier!  I was copying some printouts for a meeting and discovered midway through the job that the paper tray had fancy paper in it that I shouldn't be using.  Not a problem, right?  Just hit the "Cancel Job" button ...

I love my 8820 ... I have had it for about a year and it replaced my 8700 which I also loved.  I was a little skeptical when I first got the 8820 because the beloved thumb wheel was gone and replaced by a track ball in the middle of the phone.  But it didn't take long before I was happily scrolling around the screen enjoyed the improved 4-way motion. :)

I will be presenting on Refactoring in C# at the Rockville .NET User Group (RockNUG) on March 12th 2008 at 6:30pm.