CodePrairie .NET

So I have to update my wix installer today and I need to remove files that I have deleted from my project. Subversion + Powershell makes this easy   svn log -r 4606:HEAD -v | where {$_ -match "^ D"}  4606 was revision of the last time I updated the installer, so I ask subversion for all changes since then. -v tells it to ...

Jeremy suggests that Martin Fowler has fired a shot across MS's bow with his RubyMicrosoft post. At the same time we hear from Jamie that Microsoft is threatening legal action against TestDriven.NET I think that Leia can put a lot this into perspective for us:   The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems ...

Via Chris Sells, Mirosoft Surface. I remember something like this from a Bill Gates keynote (at CES?) about a year ago but never saw much more. But the cool factor here is high.

Saw this on digg today and basically it says that whether you choose myspace of facebook is some kind of IQ test. I agree, but with slight modifications. Let's just turn the IQ test into pass / fail and if you spend a bunch of time using either site, then you fail.

I have to do development on several different machines (keeping them in sync is a real pain, so if you have any good advice please share) and when I went to do some rails work I kept getting this error everytime I'd try to do something: undefined method `gem' for main:Object It took me a little while to figure out, but I finally upgraded ...

My work PC has been a little sluggish lately so I decided I'd do a bit of spring cleaning on it today. Now I don't want to do all this manually so I start looking for a tool to do this for me. First stop http://www.hanselman.com/tools then search page for "temp" and sure enough Scott has found one. CrapCleaner is a nice little ...

Ayende mentioned disliking the JSP servlet model last week and I must say I agree with him. As I type this I'm downloading eclipse. Why, you might ask? well once upon a time about 3 years ago or so I had developed some JSP's and now it's time to go in and make some changes to them. I remember back when I was first writing these ...

I maintain assembly version numbers in my msbuild project files. It is (unfortunately) spread across 3 files for the time being, a .targets file, the master .proj file and a wix (.wxs) file. So I thought I would hack a quick rake task that will update all these version numbers for me when it comes time to update the application. I ran into a snag ...

I wish I was as good at finding solutions I'm happy with as I am at finding problems.

I want to test out a form I'm working on and I want to ensure that the requirement of "input must be less than 255 characters is met" So I just want a string that is at least that long that I can paste into the text area, quick and easy from powershell   0..255 | %{$q += "x"}; write-clipboard $q