Development (General) 10x Developers and 10x Projects In addition to Scott’s and many, many other 10x Developer posts here are opinions from someone labeled ‘hyper-productive’ on most projects. Key Points 10x is a zone we enter at times, it
3D Printer Should I buy a 3D Printer? Thinking of buying a 3D Printer? Let's give that thought a quick reality-check... I was ready for a somewhat hobbyist experience but it took way longer than expected to have the printer assembled
Technology Compacting Virtual Machines (VirtualBox and VMWare) Google has never linked me directly to this information, just theories. One day time permitted me to run careful tests so I am sure these techniques are correct/ efficient: Simple tricks to reduce
Development (General) Filter log4net to a single thread using Notepad++ Over the years I’ve Googled and Googled for a solution to this. Heck I even tried Bing! Finally time + an urgent need permitted figuring out a simple solution. To filter down to
Other Reduce back and/or neck pain with a 50 cent cardboard box Virtually all software developers eventually experience neck and/or back pain. Mine gradually increased from light neck pains in 1995/6 to being unable to work one day in 2001. Doctor's advice: "
Technology Bye-bye Mac OS X, hello Win7 Using DOS and Windows since the mid 80's it was time for a change. Vista was never reliable on any of the three machines I tried, Microsoft fanboys were killing creditability in the
Development (General) TeamCity Release Build sgen.exe gotcha TeamCity is great, I had it up and running with Automated Tests in just minutes. But.. attempting to make a Release Build generated the following error. Googling shows many people have the same
ASP.Net MVC MVC Slides from Atlanta Code Camp >> Click here to download the slides/ demos << Thanks to all who came and apologies to those who came and found standing room only - I intend to record these
bicycle Custom Building a Modern Mountain Bike This was a dream bike build for me and lots of readers share the dream, so here goes: Build or buy? Building means you specify all the components. Even $5K bikes often come
Atlanta Atlanta User Groups I recommend A friend just asked me what .Net groups are good these days. Atlanta is the Software Capital of the South which means we have many great groups in town and I watch them
ASP.Net MVC Jan 2009 ASP.Net MVC Slides Update: The Release Candidate has been released. The demo below works fine with it too. >> Click here to download the slides and second demo. << Wow! We had a fantastic
Other TurboTax vs TaxCut 2008 TurboTax has been wonderful over the years but the 2008 price totally made me baulk. An eye popping $229.80 this year for my needs: $49.95 Premier inc Rental Properties + $34.95
Technology Deleting data before donating This was so easy I felt obliged to blog it. Under our house rule 'not used it in a year, so it has to go', our old P4 laptop is being donated. It
ASP.Net MVC IIS7 Gotcha - COM Error 80040154 We have all seen the 80040154 COM error. Normally the solution is to run regsvr32 on the com dll so it is registered on the machine. "System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80040154): Retrieving the
ASP.Net MVC jQuery DivFlip of MVC Partial So you have a Partial in a div and would like to flip out the html contents with new results from just the partial... To para-phrase Obi-Wan 'this is the JavaScript you are
Technology Google's shiny new Browser Chrome is out, download it here: http://www.google.com/chrome. I know the title post was a little obvious, a quick web-search shows a stack of hits for it already :( Chrome is
ASP.Net MVC MVC guru == PhD wannabe? This is a plea to anyone who blogs, writes or talks about ASP.Net MVC. This stuff is pretty simple, let's not scare people away. In the last four weeks of learning MVC
Add new tag DD-WRT on Linksys WRT54G v8 Update: Since writing this post in 2008 Linksys have produced v8.1 and v8.2 routers which may not be compatible with the instructions here. Luckily there are now 'official' guides for the
Presentations DDD6 UK Code Camp For my slides and NAnt + Cruise Control config files click here. DDD6 was the 6th UK 'code camp' and I was luckily enough for my session to be voted in. Many people missed
Presentations How to suck at Presenting Presenting involves elements of luck, I think we can rely less on luck... After a series of extremely well received talks for the Atlanta .Net group I almost bombed last time. Not a
Presentations UK: DD6 on Nov 24th == UPDATE: Registration is full. It took just a few days!! == Registration is now live, these free conferences always fill up fast so register right now! It is on a Saturday at Microsoft's office
Other nowhere Bit of fun here: last week I headed to North Carolina and Deal's Gap, aka Tail of the Dragon as I was sick of hearing friends talk about how great it was. 318
Technology Google Reader - Gears and List View Shawn (the ADO Guy) pointed me to Google Reader last Summer and that spelled the end of my Blog Lines use. Both are web based readers, and ideal for reading RSS feeds at
Technology Microsoft Architecture Journal Why was I not aware of this? It is a free quarterly print/web publication, after scanning the back issues it looks more useful than the MSDN Magazine is lately: Sign up here:
Development (General) Reflections on five years NUnit experience It has been five years since I first used NUnit and have used it with great success on almost every project since then. This post briefly reflects the pros and cons of Automated
