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Like many I wish our politicians could just get along and when they fly off the handle I too often times just shrug and wish I could vote them out... last night though I heard something that got my blood boiling and that couldn't be ignored. Last...
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Last weekend I ran across an episode of When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions and was... awestruck, completely and utterly dumbfounded... even as I (slowly) write this blog post I have to do so only during the commercials because the footage is incredible...
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I had a bunch of dll's I had checked out of a subversion repo that needed to have the execute bit set on them. Enter the find command. I have never had a great grasp on how to use find, but finally my laziness got the best of me such that I not only...
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With the recent public release the Release Candidate of Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 it is imperative that any users of Tab Manager take special care when upgrading to avoid being incessantly nagged . Problem Due to changes in the way the Console...
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What's worse than hearing multiple voices in your head? Trying to speak with multiple voices. The time has come to split my blogging as I now find myself having two separate voices... Brendan Grant, Software Development Engineer on the Windows Home...
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git alias's are very handy and powerful. Frequently I want to look through the log and have a quick view of who did what, so I created this alias git config --global --add alias.who-did-what 'log --pretty="format:%an - %s"' the output...
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eCRM uses several open source projects. When the open source project changes I need to get those changes, build the code on my machine and then copy the new dll's into eCRM's DependentFiles/<ProjectName> folder. I have this somewhat automated...
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Yesterday a little known aniversery came and went with little notice in the blogsphere... largely because I was too busy to celebrate it... until now. What is this anniversary? Two years ago I began a weight loss campaign that has been fairly successful...
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This morning I realized that one month ago yesterday (3/24) I arrived bright and early to building 43 on the Microsoft campus to begin NEO ( New Employee Orientation ) and to begin my career with Microsoft. What a month it's been. While all of the...
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Scott Hanselman started a little meme called the Alt.net Geek Code generator. Check out his post here for the details. For the record, here's my alt.net geek code. Click the link to view. IOC(CW):MOC(RM):TDD(NU):TDD(Xu):TDD(Mb):SCC(Svn):SCC(Git):ORM...
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Check out this post by Steve Harman He explains some of what we talked about on Saturday night far more eloquently than I ever could. And if you need some help explaining to your boss why you want to to do this it might help. There seems to be a fair...
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Just think, what if I came and worked with you for a week, and then you came and worked with me? I've been talking to several people here at #altdotnet and pitching this idea and it seems very well received. There are some obvious logistics to work...
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>history 1000 | awk '{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a " " i}}' | sort -rn | head 116 git 98 ls 68 cd 55 shoes 19 mvim 12 mate 11 svn 10 vim 10 sudo 10 cat
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I stumbled upon a nice task in MSBuild that you can use to create an executable file to install prerequisites for your application. I used to do this in the past with by just creating a Setup Deployment project setting prerequisites and holding onto the...
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NHibernate has a lot of great new features. One of which is support for events. However, if you are using Castle ActiveRecord you can't specify these things in the configuration like you normally could and must instead roll up your sleeves and do...