Monthly Archive: April 2006

Awesome Defined

Wow.  Trac just impresses me more each day. Today, it’s the peer review plugin. If you looked up the definition of awesome in the dictionary, I’m almost positive that you’d find this mentioned somewhere in the entry. It’s a component...

OMIGOSH!

OMIGOSH!

I feel like a little schoolgirl (and a little perplexed).  I’ve been following Nintendo’s next console quite closely for the last few months.  Going by the codename of “Revolution”, Nintendo has taken what many seem to be a big gamble...

The Little Things that Count

The Little Things that Count

Maybe it’s just me, but there are some little things that bug me to no end (my wife thinks I’m slightly OCD). Lately, it’s bad spelling and grammar. I don’t know, I simply don’t think it’s acceptable in an age...

Random DevTools Entry: #010

Random DevTools Entry: #010

Today’s entry is Windows Installer XML (WiX for short), an open source project (the first?) from Microsoft that is used internally by Microsoft development teams for building installers for many of their products. I first used it more than a...

Still Not There Yet…

Still Not There Yet…

I don’t understand the fascination with using Word documents for internal development specs. For one thing, a Word document is very inefficient when it comes to conveying matters of code and design.  No syntax highlighting.  It constantly warns me that...

Joy!

Joy!

A certain sense of glee overcame me just now as I was checking the activity logs. Perhaps one of the most exciting (yeah, I realize I’m exposing myself as a total geek by saying that) things about having a blog...

Random DevTools Entry: #009

Random DevTools Entry: #009

Oh yeah, we’re kicking it up with the DevTool entries. That’s typically what happens as I ramp up on a project; I’ll end up coming across a whole slew of awesome tools that I end up aggregating in my C:\Program...

Random DevTools Entry: #008

Random DevTools Entry: #008

I installed an updated version of the NUnit VS add-in (aka: TestDriven.Net) today and discovered this little tool called NCoverExplorer.  Curious, I started to dig into it and that lead me to NCover.  NCoverExplorer is a GUI interface to NCover...