This was a good meeting!

Today I was on the #seneca-oop344 channel on freenode and noticed Code junkies team having a meeting so I sat and watched. I was amazed to see how nicely this group managed an IRC meeting and used the SVN repository to work on their project concurrently and debug their code.

Few weeks ago these students had no idea what IRC or a code repository is but now take a look: http://tinyurl.com/condjunkies1

Good job!

Other OOP344 teams should take a look and follow....

Use http protocol to checkout using SVN

Checking out the source of openoffice.org through Seneca network, I realized that if svn's protocol is used for "checkout" it takes forever to download the source. But if http is used instead, in less than an hour the source is checked out.

Most likely, it is the ITT's routing rules that causes this...

so, use:
svn co http://svn.services.openoffice.org/ooo/ whatever
instead of
svn co svn://svn.services.openoffice.org/ooo/whatever