Some days ago the Stanford University has published new and interesting podcasts about the iPhone/iPod programming. At the moment, the new podcasts are dedicated to Objective-C and related development tools. In addition to podcasts, the slides of the full lessons are available. Podcasts and slides can be downloaded from this link.

During the development of my last iPhone and iPod Touch application I had the necessity to work very much with threads. Looking for as much information as possible on Internet about the correct use of the NSThread class, I found an interesting tutorial (for beginners) which describes how to use the NSThread class to develop a small iPhone application. You can find the tutorial following this link.

I have just published a new tutorial, based on my personal experiences, about how to convert an already existing Subversion (SVN) repository to a new Git repository.

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For those of you interested in game programming, expecially for iPhone or other platforms, I whish to inform you that in these days Alexandre Gomes has published a new and interesting article for beginners about an introduction to the game physics using the Chipmunk 2D framework. You can read the full article following this link.

In these days I worked on a project checked-out from a Subversion repository. Due to particular working necessities, I had the need to completely “clean” this project deleting the SVN metadata and so, deleting all “.svn” folders located in the main project folder. Unfortunately, the project on which I worked on was very big and it had a complex directories structure, consequently, manually deleting all “.svn” folders from each directory and sub-directory of the main project folder was a very tedious thing. To solve this problem, I opened the Terminal in my cool Mac and I executed a simple script. Since this script could be useful to other persons, I decided to write a very small guide which describes how to do delete “.svn” hidden folders from a project directory.

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Sometime we need to migrate one or more Subversion (SVN) repositories from a machine to another. This is an easy operation which not require specific technical skills. However, in these days, a friend of mine asked me to support him during the migration of his SVN repository from an old machine to his new server. For this reason, I decided to write a short guide which shows how to migrate an SVN repository.

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