Install & Configure SVN Server

There are many tutorials available to work with SVN and the best of all is the
svnbook.read-bean.com, This article is about making a quick SVN server with very few steps without much issues.

Server Environment: Redhat / CentOS / Fedora

Install SVN
# yum install subversion

Create SVN Directory

# mkdir -p /srv/svn

Start SVN Server
# svnserve -d /srv/svn

Create SVN Repository
# svnadmin create /srv/svn/myproject

Create Users in /srv/svn/myproject/conf/passwd (Add the following lines)

admin = adM!nPassw0rd
developer = password

Grant User Permissions in /srv/svn/myproject/conf/auth (Add the following lines)

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admin = rw
developer = rw

Test the setup
Checkout from different macine or in same machine with different directory

192.168.1.1 is assumed IP of the SVN server

# svn co http://192.168.1.1/myproject/ myproject

Test SVN Commit

# cd myproject
# echo "Hello World" > test.txt
# svn add test.txt
# svn commit -m "Test Commit"

You can checkout the same project from any machine but now you will find the test.txt.

More details on how to backup and restore svn and structuring to use are explained step by step in TechysPage(SVN-Revision-Control)
It would be good to go through the article in TechysPage.

The recent POST on User friendly SVN will help you to configure SVN with Admin panel

My First Blog for Killer Configurations

After years of this dream to share what I want to...................
After months of this dream to write a blog on what I want to...................

Finally it happened.

To be short to the point this is my first blog post. This blog is going to be more on Configuration Management.

The blog is named as Killer Configurations as configuring any server / application kills our time, we seek for answer days and night killing our self while the answer is always a simple configuration change.

This blog is for saving people by providing the tips / solution on configuration and to reduce the time of problem solving.

To be more in detail it will be on

• Server Setup
• Application configuration
• Installing Tools
• Optimizing the servers
• Tricky problem solving in server configurations
• Task Automations
  
• Ease up server / service administration
  
• etc........

The topic is not just this will continue more......................
Hope this blog solves the need of the reader ;-)

Wait for upcoming posts.

Developing Integration solution using BizTalk server 2006 and Team Foundation server(TFS)

Microsoft has released a document, which talks about how to develop Integration solution using BizTalk server 2006 and Team Foundation server (TFS). Find it here

This document gave me wide range of ideas how we can exploit the capability of TFS to improve the efficiency of the team to deliver better results. 

The Document discuss about the 

Requirement gathering for Integration Application

Naming Convenstions

Planning the team

Setting up the TFS and how to work with it

Manage versioning of assemblies

Managing different enviroments (Development, test and Production)

Debugging Methodologies with BizTalk Artifacts and Custom components

Discussed about automated build using TFS

Deployment Stratergies

BizTalk 2009 Beta Now Available

Microsoft has released the Beta version of BizTalk 2009 for public . You can get  from  https://connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx?SiteID=218

BizTalk 2009 supports 
Windows 2008,
Visual Studios 2008 SP1, .
Net 3.5 SP1,
SQL 2008, and
TFS
RFID Mobile
New LOB Adapters

First findings HAT is gone in 2009. There are now new querying options and access to the orchestration debugger via the admin mmc.