I have noticed a few people have been commenting on their development environments and wanted to chime in on what I use when I am consulting or working on a personal project.

Internet Based:

• Dropbox – This application allows me to share files between all of my platforms. It works very similar to how subversion works, but commits the files automatically after they have been added to the directory. They are stored encrypted on the Dropbox servers so the information is safe from prying eyes.
• Twitter – I never got the whole twitter thing for a long time, but it is nice to know what my friends are up to.
• Facebook – Probably the only decent social networking site out there
• LinkedIn – Business social networking.
• del.icio.us – Social bookmarking.
• Pownce – Similar to twitter, but does more for media sharing.

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Usually when a URL of one of my repositories changes I either have all of my code checked in so I can grab a fresh copy or I am on a Windows machine and I can do it quickly in TortoiseSVN. Tonight I was working with a local repository (file://) and both it and the working copy had been on a Linux laptop so the location of the repository was a bit different and I had code that was not checked in before the move. So I was going from file:///home/user/repos/xyz to file:///Users/user/Repos/xyz and here is the command that allowed me to change the repository URL and commit my code.

svn switch --relocate file:///home/user/repos/xyz file:///Users/user/Repos/xyz

Then you can run your commit command or update command and all is well.