CheatSheets that I use

So when I’m programming or doing anything of that sort, I tend to have a cheat sheet for the tool or piece of software that I’m using at any given time, be it for an IDE like Netbeans or Textmate, or just a command-line tool like Git or SVN. It really can make life much simpler when you just have the commands or shortcuts at hand.

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Recursivly delete .svn from your directories

A pretty simple tip that can save you a lot of time if you use revision control systems.This command can be used to remove the .svn folder that is used and placed within every folder to control your versioned files.

rm -rf `find . -type d -name .svn`

Simply run this command on the command line in the top level of the directory you want to remove the folders from. This will go down through all the folders in the directory and delete all the .svn folders.

Note: This will only work on Unix based systems or with Cygwin

Installing TinyOS on Ubuntu 8.10

So installing TinyOS can be a bit of a pain sometimes. There are a number of options available but the easiest have to be the vmware image and the Debian repository install.
Personally I prefer installing via the Debian Repository provided by Stanford University.

This is my platform:
Mac OS X 10
VirtualBox 2.06
Ubuntu Hardy 8.10
TinyOS 2.1

The motes that I am using are the Micaz

I chose to install the TinyOS SDK on Ubunutu Hardy in a virtual machine on my Mac. ( I use VirtualBox for the virtual machine stuff)
The guide that is on the tinyos.net website is correct for the most part but is missing some steps. Below are the steps I preformed to install the TinyOS Platform.
The installation for TinyOS was preformed on a new install of Ubuntu using the default settings.

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