In the last article we installed and configured the Subversion server using Visual SVN.

Today I am going to show you how to interact with the server from the client side.

What you will need to download the Tortoise SVN client application.

Download and install and after a restart (bummer) we are ready to start working!

The Tortoise SVN adds its functionality in the Windows Explorer Context Menu.

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I bet many of you are working on your own software projects and would love to have a version control at their disposal. This is useful for many reasons. If you are working with one or more friends on a joint project, if you have a desktop and a laptop and you want to work from both computers while keeping the files synchronized, or if you just want to be more organized and keep versions and backups of your work. You can also use Visual SVN to sync folders or documents between several computers.

This article will have 2 sections One will discuss the SVN Server installation and configuration and the second part will be about how to use the SVN client.

First you have to download the Visual SVN Server Installation

Installing the Visual SVN Server

Double click on the Visual SVN executable to begin the installation. After a few next next next clicks you will get this screen:

Although Dev102 is a blog about software tips, web and technology reviews, I want to introduce you something which is a little bit out of context. Most people, know and use Microsoft Outlook as their email application and are spending too much time searching for conversations, attachments, and other important information in their inbox. A company names Xobni introduce us a free Outlook plugin which offers a new way to organize and search the Outlook email.

After I published a post about SDEdit which is a free desktop sequence diagram editor, I received a mail from Steve Hanov who wanted to introduce me with a very impressive alternative to SDEdit. Steve has created a web service that creates renditions of sequence diagrams, it is completely online and does not require a download. Well, after reviewing this tool, I decided to let Dev102 readers know about it too, it is really great.

Like SDEdit, the UML sequence diagrams are created from a textual syntax and not by drawing objects and lines. Lets take a look at the following example:

Alice->Bob: Authentication Request
note right of Bob: Bob thinks about it.
Bob-->Alice: Authentication Response

You can notice that the syntax is easy and if you ask from the tool to draw it, this is what you get:

I am writing this article as a sequel to the Measuring Programming Progress By Lines Of Code article. As I already stated there, software Managers want to have some metric to estimate their workers. They are always seeking for a a precise and measurable way to know the programming progress and the developers productivity and performance. If you read the previous article, you know that I don’t think that counting the lines of the program source code is an efficient metric at all. Let me please talk about another common metric - measuring the amount of extra hours a software developer has done.

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August is over and so is my great vacation. The number of posts should pick up in the following weeks. Other than that, no exciting news to deliver.

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Software Managers all around the globe, need to have some metric to estimate their workers. Sometimes the management event wants to create a precise and measurable way to know the programming progress and the developers productivity and performance. One of those methods is called SLOC - Source Lines Of Code. This metric is used measure the size of the software by counting the lines of the program source code. Some managers tend to love SLOC because it can be automated so it requires very little effort and the effect of it can be visualized. That is exactly what managers like! it is easy and it can be easily inserted into their reports, what could be better than that? It seems just perfect.

We never published a lists of blog posts we liked, so this will be the first time. I gathered some links from my Google Reader shared items, some of those links are old, some are new, but I liked them all. So here is the list of 7 post/articles I recommend:

1. Phil Haack is talking about the fact that The Design Is Never Right The First Time. I think that it is OK that the design won’t be right the first time, but it should be good at the first time. Explanation: the fact that Phil could change the implementation over night tells me that his initial design was very good. It is not that simple to change the design and the implementation so close to the deadline… I know some projects where you can’t replace some code just like that, it will take too much time to do it…
2. Scott Hanselman tells that there is a post at the Microsoft StyleCop blog that shows some rules about directives outside and inside the namespace declaration. In his post Back to Basics - Do namespace using directives affect Assembly Loading?, he discovers that we shouldn’t believe everything we read, even on a Microsoft Blog.
3. Jeff Atwood wrote about Dealing With Bad Apples in a team and that if you tolerate even one developer whom the other developers think is a problem, you’ll hurt the morale of the good developers. I totally agree, those situations lead to a very negative attitude in the team and after some time, it is too late because the “cancer” has spread to the whole team.
   
   

This is a guest post by Sam Agarwal from the Bitrix Team.

The first impression you might get when you open the Bitrix Site Manager’s Photo Album is that it resembles any other photo sharing application. However, as soon as you start working with it, the enormous differences become more than apparent.