I’ve previously written about managing your Subversion repositories via the TortoiseSVN client. TortoiseSVN integrates with Windows Explorer and provides a really slick way to do things like view the status of your source code, update your Subversion working copy and commit change. But as slick as it is, TortoiseSVN requires one to bounce between their [...]
I’m a fan of Pandora Radio. I really love the product and I complete dig the simplicity and slickness of their Adobe Flash GUI…with one exception. I have an issue with the play/pause control. Pandora has chosen to recognize the current state of a song (playing, paused) by highlighting the associated button. The image to [...]
We hosted an internal presentation of .NET MVC Framework last week. Since our conference room no longer fits the entire development team comfortably, we opted to share the presenter’s desktop with team members using Yugma. What’s Yugma? Yugma it is a free, multi-platform (Windows, Mac and Linux) web conferencing and collaboration service. Basic accounts are [...]
With Apple’s 3G, “twice as fast, half the price” 2.0 iPhone Release announcement yesterday, I think we’re all ripe to read yet another iPhone review before the new devices go on sale in the US on July 11. Full-disclosed: I proudly sported a company Blackberry for three years prior to picking up an iPhone about [...]
Today I did what I should have done a lot while ago. I watched the Jedi Coding Demo and installed JetBrain’s ReSharper – The Most Intelligent Add-In To Visual Studio about 30 seconds later. Finally… After launching VS2008, R# 4.0 Beta asked me a couple configuration-preference-type questions and then I completely stomped on my code until [...]
Originally built as an extension of YUI, Ext JS is a cross-browser JavaScript library for building rich Internet applications (RIA) using techniques such as AJAX, DHTML and DOM scripting. A co-worker recently showed off a small sampling of what he’s done with Ext JS. Very simply, the framework blew my socks off. If, like me, [...]
Resource Refactoring Tool provides developers with a super easy way to extract hard coded strings from your code into resource files. I won’t say this tool has saved me days of time but has certainly saved me hours (especially on those hand-me-down projects which tend to require a good amount of clean up. ) You’ll [...]
If I were to guess, I receive 2.25 bookstore gift cards and 1.25 books around Christmas each year. Nearly 100% of the tangible books have been non-technical in nature. This year’s book — Beer School: Bottling Success at the Brooklyn Brewery — was a present from my soon-to-be sister-in-law. As I don’t tend to read [...]