General PC Usage
I think my favorite programming book of all time is The Pragmatic Programmer. It was the first introduction I had to being more intentional with my programming. There were certain types of programming patterns that felt good, but I didn't know why. This book taught me why those things were good, what name people had given to those good things, and showed me the next steps to take in those areas of good. James Marcus Bach had a series of tweets on Tuesday that reminded me of the Pragmatic Programmer's section, "The Requirements Pit." I still haven't fully grasped...
A coworker sent me this today; this idea had never crossed my mind: Not sure if you’ve already got something setup to automatically update your svn checkouts, but thought I’d mention this. I just created a .bat file: TortoiseProc.exe /command:update /path:"C:\Code\Path\to\Proj1" /closeonend:1
TortoiseProc.exe /command:update /path:"C:\Code\Path\to\Proj2" /closeonend:1
etc...
Then setup a windows task to run the file everyday at 4:30am. No more out of date code!
Well, that's cool. Two benefits I see to this:
If you happen to go for several days without checking in (not a good practice, but it happens) your chance...
After reformatting Allison's Acer Aspire One netbook for the third time, and it suddenly running really slow again shortly after the last reformat, It seems I found a fix for the problem:
http://blog.ryankopf.com/2009/02/acer-aspire-one-running-slow-no-more.html
Thank you, Ryan Kopf, whoever you are :)
…in the short term. In the long run, usually not so much.
Warning: this post is a rambling whose content to noise ratio may be quite low. Follow along with me as I consider a simplistic view of a little piece of software. The point of this story is how many little pieces of information have to be collected, and how quickly the logical complexity grows, with even this simplistic example. After the story I’ll draw my little connection between programming and the human mind, and how we might (at a high level) close the gap a bit. I just got a docking station for my laptop. It’s the first...
Just wanted to note this post that helped me get set up. http://blechie.com/WPierce/archive/2006/08/18/SubText_and_Windows_Live_Writer.aspx
I've finally gotten a dedicated server set up with serverpronto.com. That server is now hosting this blog. It's really nice to finally have a well-connected web server that I can control by RDP'ing in. I will say I'm not too impressed with serverpronto. They are cheap -- way less money per month than anyone else. You get what you pay for, right? They say they'll have it set up in 24 hours of signing on. I signed on Sunday night and didn't get my welcome email until early Thursday AM. I called on Tuesday and they said they were having...
I've got a little server sitting in my cabinet; it serves up my own source control server, a little web server, and a few other things. It runs on an old box, and I've wanted for quite some time to move all that stuff to a virtual machine, but wasn't sure how to go about it. I'm not sure how this will fly, but I've been playing with this great software, Image for Windows (http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/image-for-windows.htm) and have the following plan:
Get an image of the C drive.
Set up a new VM with MSVPC.
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