August 2005 Entries
Man, oh, man! Setting this thing up was a pain in the arse. It took up most of my day! Anyway, hopefully, I can save someone else the heardache. Here's the setup: client - Windows XP, server - Windows Server 2003 running Subversion 1.2.1 and Apache 2.0.54. Within the Apache httpd.conf file, the following modules must be setup in order: # Windows authentication module LoadModule sspi_auth_module modules/mod_auth_sspi.so # subversion modules LoadModule dav_svn_module "C:/Program Files/Subversion/bin/mod_da...
I about did a back flip after reading this article about AOL being fined for bad customer service practices. I've always hated AOL for stupid things like this. Not that I'll like them any more, but I'm glad to see something being done about it. Or, at least them being fined for it, anyway
I was pleasently surprised when I noticed that TortoiseSVN supported diffs in Word documents. I've made a number of changes to a requirements document over the past week or so and wanted to get an idea of the scope of changes before committing them, so I figured, 'What the hell! Let's try a diff.' I didn't honestly think it'd work as desired. I guess I figured it'd try to do it as a text file and come up with all the junk Word adds for formatting before and after the text. In actuality, the original...
OMG!!! This is absolutely sweet! Granted, I haven't used it, but the prospect is awesome. With ILMerge a developer can combine multiple .NET assemblies into one. I guess the main reason I'm so excited by this is because I've done a lot of work with reuse libraries. I tend to break those out into core, web forms, windows forms, web services, and security libraries (among others) similar to how .NET is broken up. Due to this, people may have to copy 4 or 5 assemblies just to get the features they want....
Ya know, I just love these things... I'm a big thinker. See what you're like
Mike Stall posts an interesting bit about the abstract override keyword combination. I thought this was very creative. It's always great when someone is able to think outside the box and see things in a new way
I thought this was an interesting outlook on Java and C# - like I care about Ruby. Anyway, I'm surprised there wasn't more on C# at OSCON2005. I've heard that C# has a pretty good following of Linux users. Granted, this was just something I heard from a hardcore Linux person, so I have no idea how much support it has. Of course, this is all because of Mono. Greg talks about how Java 5.0 (1.5) and 6.0 (1.6) features will help Java surpass C# current capabilities. Well, he's right. That kind of brings...
I probably shouldn't even be propagating this crap, but I thought it was a ridiculous attempt to make the .NET plastform look worse than Java. IBM hired someone to evaluate IBM and Microsoft tools for productivity. I have no problem with the fact that IBM hired the evaluators. What I have a problem with is the fact that the tools they chose to implement (and not implement, for that matter) don't give a true picture to the appropriate level of effort for the Microsoft side of the picture. Two examples...