Recover files deleted by script

Hi all,
I am really desparate i was playing around with a shell postinstall scripts and accidently deleted my whole developer directory where unfortunately my XCode project was(not check in SVN since long time). The delete was done using rm -r command. I was looking into buying the DataRescue 3 software but I downloaded its demo version and it seems that it can't find my files(no files .m or .h). Please any suggestions will be greatly appriciated!! Thank you.
Regards
artOf... deleteing

Try File Salvage.
If that doesn't work out either, you will probably have to send the hard drive out to a professional data recovery service. That will be very expensive.
You didn't have your data backed up, I presume?

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