So I’ve been working with Enterprise Library 2.0 (EL2) Logging Application Block recently and I’ve come across some quirks that are puzzling me. First, I’ve been using log4net for most of my logging in the past. Recently, I’ve taken a...
Well, my pineapple died recently. Yes, that’s right, pineapple. Sometime last year, I decided to start growing a pineapple plant after I picked up a weird interest in growing tropical plants (fruits in particular). Why pineapples? Well, I found out...
Came across a great blog while looking for images of praying mantids. Great links. Including this one and this one. Bookmarked!
Hey now! Our inaugural post for May! Let’s start things off with a tip for TortoiseSVN users out there. First of all, did you know that you can right-drag objects in the Windows GUI? No? Neither did I. I felt...
Must see. I think this pretty much speaks for itself….
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...