I don’t have anything really planned for this post so I’m just gong to brain dump for a while. I could start with some interesting weather updates – it’s been raining. This is really good for our area and I think I’ll get out tomorrow (weather allowing) and burn some stuff I’ve had in the [...]
Sometimes I want to take a tool from one project that is under subversion and use it in another. The problem is with the existing .svn directories. Because the files are already in one repository, copying directly from there to another project will cause conflicts in the other repository.
There are quick and easy ways to [...]
I recently helped a friend out with the technical side of going “agile”. This meant setting up some project source control and automation for build and test. I have a pretty advanced automation setup on most of my projects right now. It’s far from perfect (I don’t have nightly releases being tagged, etc), but [...]
A friend of mine recently mentioned the idea of doing a code dojo – getting together with other professional programmers and writing code to throw away. The code is not written to address any specific problem, but to teach everyone good programming practices. It’s great to know theory in computer science, but to practice it [...]
The guys at LifeHacker just put up a post about starting conversations with strangers. Now, I’m a pretty introverted guy – which actually helps me as a programmer look inside to find solutions to problems. But recently since I started consulting again I’ve had to find my extroverted side and start up those difficult conversations. [...]
