asp.net menu hiding <h3>

Note to self:

I have a asp.net web app that uses the built-in asp.net menu control. For some reason the page was hiding some of the elements (<h3> to be specific) upon load, and showing them while I hovered over the asp.net menu. I put a <br /> above the <h3> elements and they magically appeared again upon page load.

Firefox add-on list

I develop apps almost exclusively for IE, but I prefer Firefox as my own, personal web browser, because of the add-ons:

1. NoScript
   
2. Server Spy
   
3. FireBug
   
4. FireFTP
   
5. Adblock Plus
   
6. Adblock Updator
   
7. Del.icio.us bookmarks
   
8. Download Embedded
   
9. Download Status Bar
   
10. EditCss
    
11. Flashblock
    
12. Gmail Manager
    
13. Google Reader Notifier
    
14. Google Toolbar
    
15. Grab and Drag
    
16. IE View
    
17. Web Developer
    

My Favorite Tools

Who knows what will happen with the upcoming sale of the company, so i'll bookmark my favorite tools (in case I need to download them again):

1. AstroGrep - for text searching files
2. AutoRuns - for cleaning up the startup (and you've gotta love the name)
3. Eclipse - just in case I need to do any Java development again
4. Fiddler - a great http debugging aid
5. Foxit Reader - a great, incredibly small pdf reader
6. LDP - this has helped me immensely with my AD development
7. Notepad++ - I've just started using this, but it is my new favorite text editor
8. Paint.Net - This is the perfect graphics program for my meager needs
9. Process Explorer - another great tool from sysinternals
10. PureText - a helpful little app to allow me to easily paste only text
11. TCPView - allows me to watch ports
12. Window's Powershell - this is a new one for me that I like a lot
13. Zoomit - not a lot of practical need for this, but it is a neat toy
14. 7Zip - my open-source winzip replacement
15. Subversion - what a great source code repository!
16. TortoiseSVN - one of the main reasons why I love Subversion so much
17. Display Fusion - For greater desktop control of multiple monitor setups
18. Vs 2005 Cmd Prompt Here - Right click a folder in window's explorer, and you can open a vs 2005 cmd prompt at that folder.
19. Clipx - A nice clipboard extender
    

Not all code - NBA

Shawn Marion reminds me today why I'm finding it increasingly harder to stomach the NBA:

"I'll do what I've got to do," he said. "I'm a professional. I'm not bitter. I love the fans, but I've got to take care of me."

Setting up svnsync

Now that I have my svnserve services running, it's time to setup svnsync. Here's the steps I followed:

• Begin with a blank, copy repository
  
• Created a user to be used for the synch process (svnsync)
  
• User has read permissions on original repository
• User has r/w on the copy repository
• I had to create a pre-revprop-change.bat file. This was a bit of a pain, as I've written very few DOS scripts, and the templates provided were unix shell scripts. I finally sludged my way through it and ended up with the following, incredibly basic implementation:
  

IF %3==svnsync exit 0
ELSE (
echo "Only the svnsync user can change revprops"
exit 1
)

• I then needed to initialize the sync, with the following command:
• svnsync init --username svnsync svn://copyRepository:port svn://originalRepository:port
• Finally, I executed a sync
• svnsync sync svn://copyRepository:port

I browsed the copyRepository with tortoise and it was in synch with originalRepository.

Running two separate svnserve instances

I have subversion installations and repositories at two separate remote locations. I have been tasked with keeping each repository in synch with a master repository at a central location. To do this, I have setup two separate subversion repositories on the central server. I've setup two services on the central server that run svnserve, each is running on it's own non-standard port, each is attached to one of the repositories.

Deleting Services

Of course I didn't get my service setup correctly on the first try, so I had to delete it. The command is as follows:

sc delete [servicename]

In this case for me, servicename = svnserve