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Export Only Specific Revisions Change Set From SubVersion/SVN (TortoiseSVN)

Mohamed Meligy — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:31:06 +0000

Today I was supposed to deploy some changes on company static website made by web designer. The website source is hosted using SubVersion (SVN). I thought it’ll be great if I can export just the changes he did with their folder structure and without asking him to do anything extra, and deploy that. Here [...] Related posts:

Visual Studio 2010 Extension Manager: Online Gallery Behind Internet Proxy

Mohamed Meligy — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:07:11 +0000

In VS 2010, extension manager is part of a nice new generation of VS plug-in system. One of the great features of it is how it can go online talk to Microsoft Visual Studio Gallery website to retrieve list of extensions there, automatically discovering updates for installed extensions, and allowing me to add new extensions [...] Related posts:

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Secrets On My Blog – Advertising Also

Mohamed Meligy — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:16:28 +0000

Just a hour ago, I got an interesting question via the contacts page in this blog, about search engine optimization, and I wanted to share the answer with you… The question is: I’m a software engineer and SE Optimizer. I’m currently assigned a project that needs general information of the mini sites and blogs regarding [...] Related posts:

MVCConf, An Online ASP.NET MVC Conference Coming Tomorrow

Mohamed Meligy — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:46:07 +0000

Another internal company email I sent today and found useful enough to share in the wild (after few modifications)… Hey all, There is an online conference (streamed over the Internet, you don’t have to go to physical place) tomorrow called MVCConf; in addition to the MVC in the name it’s related to so many .NET [...] Related posts:

Generic SaveOrUpdate Method To Persist New/Dirty Entities With Entity Framework 4

Mohamed Meligy — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 01:17:03 +0000

In NHibernate there is a Save(entityObject) method, which creates a new row in the database with the given entity object, also, has an Update(entityObject) which updates the row corresponding to the entity object with the property values of this object. It also has a SaveOrUpdate(entityObject) method, which checks the whether the entity object corresponds to [...] Related posts:

More On Razor Syntax / Expressions

Mohamed Meligy — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 05:35:39 +0000

This post gets enough said about how the Razor parser works. http://blog.andrewnurse.net/CommentView,guid,89b7bd90-52d7-4d49-b87d-4e888f285b4c.aspx The guy, Andrew Nurse, is the one who wrote the parser! (from Haack’s note) After reading it and a quick chat with @Haacked on twitter, it seems all your “escape” kind of Razor expressions (that is meaning: when mixing code and text [...] Related posts:

jQuery E-book Free For Few Hours Only "jQuery: Novice to Ninja"

Mohamed Meligy — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 06:14:35 +0000

SitePoint, a well-known publisher of nice easy-but-deep books in web design and web related stuff, has celebrated the end of the world cup (and the fact that Spain has won) by putting an ebook of one of their titles for FREE (“jQuery: Novice to Ninja”, 407 pages) – only for 24 hours (which I don’t [...] Related posts:

Just In Case You Missed The New ASP.NET Betas (WebMatrix, Razor, IIS Express, SQL Server Compact, Web Platform Installer)

Mohamed Meligy — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 05:59:06 +0000

Similar to the last post, it looks like the best way to continue blogging for me is to copy private company/list emails (when appropriate of course). This is a mail I just sent to .NET list in my company, with slight modifications: Hey all, Just in case you have not noticed it already, early last [...] Related posts:

Thoughts On Razor, Microsoft’s New ASP.NET MVC View Engine

Mohamed Meligy — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 23:19:25 +0000

This is something I have posted to a private mailing list before, and thought since I have only fixed number of keyboard strokes to death, I should be sharing it with larger audience… Before Beginning I know some of the audience of this blog may have not even tried ASP.NET MVC, so, you may need [...] Related posts:

Small Tip for Outlook: Prevent Duplicate Emails Created By Many Rules

Mohamed Meligy — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 07:15:25 +0000

I noticed that sometimes when I create more than one Rule in Outlook for forwarding emails to specific folders, it happens to get one message to match the conditions of more than one rule, and I end up getting two or more copies of the same message (Reading one copy does not mark the others [...] Related posts:

101 Free Tech Books Update – I Won A WCF 4 Print Book!

Mohamed Meligy — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 07:17:30 +0000

http://www.101ftb.com/T80G10C780 Five days ago I got a great email from 101 Free Tech Books. Seems the drawing I wrote about is real!! Yes, I won a FREE print book. Filled in my shipping information yesterday and got the post that confirms my order was being processed. Feels so real! I’m even asked to give testimonials [...] Related posts:

Just Noticed GitHub DOES Support SubVersion/SVN [Not only Git]

Mohamed Meligy — Sun, 30 May 2010 07:20:35 +0000

The SVN News Today I was hanging around GitHub when realized a relatively old news, dated to April 1, 2010, saying they do support SVN. Announcing SVN Support Yes, it’s April Fools day. Very funny date to announce anything serious as they admit themselves in an update to the news post, but it DOES work. [...] Related posts:

Export Only Specific Revisions Change Set From SubVersion/SVN (TortoiseSVN)

EgyGeeks Continuous Integration Session Starting In Few Hours

Mohamed Meligy — Fri, 28 May 2010 18:08:46 +0000

Just a quick update in case you haven’t been following my recent updates (@Meligy) or @EgyGeeks news on twitter… This week #EgyGeeks will have a very interesting session, about Continuous Integration in .NET. The session will be given by @AmrEldib who is a really brilliant and clever guy from what I see on twitter and [...] Related posts:

Free Printed Technical Books Website? Yes, With Free Shipping

Mohamed Meligy — Tue, 11 May 2010 19:43:30 +0000

Just noticed this great website for free printed technical books, with free shipping included. Of course as you know, the sky doesn’t rain gold. Simply this is an advertisement based website (you may have expected it), and advertisement sponsor those books. Every month they make a drawing for all registered users to choose which [...] Related posts:

Some “Life’s Little Instruction Book” Advices (In Arabic)

Mohamed Meligy — Mon, 03 May 2010 10:32:48 +0000

My friend and colleague Ahmed Ebrahim Nasser forwarded a nice email to a set of friends, which I want to share with you. It included some advices from the “Life’s Little Instruction” book. The email is in Arabic: Life’s Little Instruction Book جاكسون بروان .. لما جاء ولده يدخل للجامعة قرر يكتب له النصايح اللي [...] Related posts:

Tip: Outlook 2010 Can Open Two Exchange Accounts At Same Time

Mohamed Meligy — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 06:36:42 +0000

I just noticed this now, and it’s really GREAT. In previous versions of Outlook, you could add multiple Exchange accounts, but it’d create different “Profile” for each of them. When you open Outlook it would force you to choose only one profile to start with., An Outlook Mail Profile could handle any number of email [...] Related posts:

EgyGeeks 3rd Gathering Survey

Mohamed Meligy — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 01:54:39 +0000

Hello everybody, Thanks a lot to those who attended the second planned EgyGeeks gathering. The open talk especially was really nice and we enjoyed how interactive it was. The Survey Based on your feedback in the open talk part, Ramy collected your suggestions for the next gathering in one list and put this survey: http://twtpoll.com/5a15gt [...] Related posts:

EgyGeeks Today’s Gathering, Delivering jQuery and ASP.NET. Open Talk About VS2010

Mohamed Meligy — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 00:31:54 +0000

Just wanted to give you a quick update on our next gathering today. We’ll have the meeting in the same time like last week. Today, Friday, April 16, at 11:59 PM. The gathering will have the same style as the last one: - The first 30 minutes will be a session: Jquery for ASP.NET Developers, [...] Related posts:

Release Time For Visual Studio 2010, .NET 4.0

Mohamed Meligy — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 10:54:22 +0000

Most of you probably know that Visual Studio 2010 will shiptomorrow April 12, 2010. If you are willing to track the exact time it may ship, it’s going to be 6:00 AM GMT-8. That’s 4:00 PM Cairo Time, or , 6:00 PM Abu Dhabi Time. Good luck installing VS 2010 And enjoying the bits… [...] Related posts:

On #EgyGeeksOnSkype => #EgyGeeks, and .NET

Mohamed Meligy — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 01:06:50 +0000

Name Change: #EgyGeeks Our first meeting on Friday, or technically the first hours of Saturday (starting 12 AM), we found technical difficulties in establishing the conversation on Skype, with around 25 attendees, and the need to share desktop view with the entire group, for the first part of the gathering (Ayman’s session). That’s why we [...] Related posts:

Reminder: EgyGeeksOnSkype Tomorrow At Midnight Cairo Time (GMT+2)

Mohamed Meligy — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:35:00 +0000

If you read my last blog post you already know what EgyGeeksOnSkype.is. EgyGeeksOnSkype is an online gathering for a number of Egyptian (and Arab) geeks through a Skype group chat. The idea only came This Saturday when a small group of geeks got together on Skype group voice chat the night before Easter. We’re decided [...] Related posts:

Join the Egyptian Geeks On Skype, Weekly

Mohamed Meligy — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 04:31:27 +0000

How It Started It was a great night for me yesterday. It all started when I woke up at 2 or 3 AM Abu Dhabi time, to find a link to a Tiny Chat conversation including many Egyptian .NET geeks (Tiny chat is a website that uses flash to allow you to have a conversation with [...] Related posts:

Thank you very much for attending CairoCodeCamp`10 – Session Slides

Mohamed Meligy — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:36:24 +0000

My first DotNetwork Cairo Code Camp in 2009 was a great experience, because it was one of the biggest events I’ve spoken at (in terms of audience count, similar to SilverKey Demo Day II). However, Cairo Code Camp `10 had a much different taste! Not just that I met Scott Hanselman, one of the most [...] Related posts:

GuruStop.NET, A New Domain For An Old Blog…

Mohamed Meligy — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:42:19 +0000

First WordPress Post From GuruStop.NET/Blog A number of friends advised me to move GuruStop blog from weblogs.asp.net to its own domain, and make it a start for my own “GuruStop” brand, especially @BinYahia. Various limitations and inconsistencies in Community Server powering weblogs.asp.net supported this suggestion of course, but, still, leaving weblogs.asp.net as a primary blog [...] Related posts:

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Secrets On My Blog – Advertising Also

jQuery for Absolute Beginners: The Complete Video Series

Mohamed Meligy — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:38:25 +0000

A great VIDEO series on all the nice effects (and functionality) you can achieve with jQuery JavaScript library for those who know NOTHING about it. jQuery is a very powerful library. One of the first things I do when creating new project is to include the library in it. Microsoft is going to include it [...] Related posts: