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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I have just edited my personal website updating the list of the scientific papers published during this year (until now).