A few weeks ago I went through the exercise of downloading and setting up cruise control on my dev machine along with NAnt and some other tools (more on this later). The night before last I spent about 3-4 hours optimizing by build scripts to make…
My wife and I were walking down an aisle at the Cincinnati Home & Garden show yesterday and heard the following from 2 couples in front of us: Wife #1 (to wife #2): Mary, Hi, how are you. Wife #2: Oh, Hi. I haven’t see you in like two years…
A few days ago I installed the Enterprise Library 2.0 (January 2006) and converted an existing C# ASP.NET 2.0 application (which I had only converted from ASP.NET 1.1 to 2.0 a few days prior) from the Enterprise Library June 2005 bits to the new ones…
My co-worker, well respected C# programmer, and world-class civil engineer had a tough time today with his Windows Task Mangager. At one point he found that his Task Manager window was open, but had no menu bar showing. He called me over and showed…
for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
As of midnight last night, under the threat of an AEIF (Armco Employees Independent Federation) union strike, AK Steel of Middletown made an aggresive move and locked out its 2700 man labor force. News reports this morning state that the union was…
Might be able to make use of this is some of our work - nudge, nudge, wink, wink. And it is pretty simple to boot. (via Jason Haley’s Interesting Finds )
Interesting news here . Something to take notice of for future reference. But as one of the commentors stated: “…who would ever create folders and files while the app is running? :) That’s crazy talk, I’m sure only 65-85% of app devs do it.”
Whew! Just got everything working. I was getting worried that I might have to roll the site and database back to the backups I made yesterday evening before I started the conversion. It’s been touch-and-go the last 18 hours (with about 4 hours of…
I previously protested the new subscription model of NewsGator and their trying to convert me from a product purchaser to a yearly subscriber. I had installed NewsGator Outlook edition on my workstation at home a couple of years ago and I really…
