High Fibre Programming

I just tried to commit my Working Copy when I got the error message:

svn: Entry 'jquery-latest.js' has unexpectedly changed special status

It turns out that someone had created a symlink to whatever is the latest version of jQuery, which apart from being a somewhat dubious solution, should be fine.   However, it seems a Windows user then checked out this file and somehow changed it; either directly or by some strange Windowsy magic.   Anyway, the changed file was then corrupted and the result is the rather cryptic message above.

I tried to remove the offending file:

svn remove jquery-latest.js

But that resulted in:

svn: 'jquery-latest.js' is in the way of the resource actually under version control

Which was simpy resolved by using the --force command:

svn remove --force jquery-latest.js

I recreated the symlink, committed it and it seems now to be ok.

Starting a blog was always one of those things that I sort of wanted to get round to one day but secretly knew I’d never actually get round to.   That was until about a month ago when my good friend J decided to make a blog.    It was for me one of those epiphany moments, J’s blog is absolutely fantastic and I suddenly thought I could give it a bash too.   I don’t say for a moment that this will be at all at the same level as J’s, in fact I can more or less guarantee it won’t be, but nevertheless there may (or more likely probably won’t, unless you happen to be into the same riveting programming areas as me) be some useful stuff here.   For the rest of you, riveting might actually be more fun.

As J mentions in his blog, every day we use the communities on the web to help us with our work, and so it seems right to try and give something back.