I was asked today, “what’s this whole ‘Microsoft Azure’ thing about?” I haven’t done anything with Azure, EC2, or Google Apps Engine, but why let my ignorance stop me from blogging about it? So here’s a brief summary of what I understand about these cloud technologies – I find the whole idea fascinating and am […]
Read MoreI’ve started doing some SharePoint development and have brought some of my favorite tools and practices with me. Like unit tests. And IoC. And that other SOLID stuff. I’m writing a very basic WebPart to get started with SharePoint – this web part will display a list of links to other applications that the user […]
Read MoreSometimes people get tripped up by this – at the least, its a little confusing. A brief history lesson: First there was Windows Server 2003. And then in 2005, Microsoft released something of a super-service-pack with new functionality, patches, and other stuff. It was much more than a regular service pack, full of optional components […]
Read More?The taste of Bacon is the taste of Freedom.? — unknown I hope you read that in Leonard Nimoy?s voice, from his work on Civilization IV. ?Our scientists have unlocked the secrets of Bacon! Now we can cook bacon!? So after attempting to cook bacon in carbon dioxide, the next logical step was to […]
Read MoreWhat would happen if you were to cook bacon in an oxygen-poor environment? Would the bacon taste any different for it? Is oxygen a requirement for good bacon? Let?s say you wanted to build a robot to cook bacon, unattended. You don?t want this robot to burn the house down, as that would be less […]
Read MoreI have had a Gmail account for a long time at tony.rasa from Gmail. Since I moved everything over to a Google Apps Domain a while back, I don’t use the Gmail account anymore – but I still have a forwarding rule sending any stray messages to my “new” domain. It turns out that my […]
Read MoreProblem: You run “svn update” on a directory where you *know* there are new folders. Svn tells you “At revision X” where X = whatever the head revision is (i.e., “everything’s up to date!”) – but that new folder didn’t show up. This is because the default is for svn to update folders down to […]
Read MoreThis is one of those problems that teaches humility. I’m posting this here because the solution is a) trivially obvious, any fool could see it and b) I completely overlooked the obvious solution and maybe a google “hint” would have saved me some time. At Blackfin, we use SourceGear Vault and CruiseControl.net. (We’re moving to […]
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