I shared this script with a coworker yesterday. It doesn’t do much; it recursively deletes .svn folders from a source tree. It comes in handy if you want to share your codebase or you get in a terrible spot with SVN and you just want to start all over. Just blow away all svn [...]
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IIS7 introduced the option to run your application pool as AppPoolIdentity. With the release of IIS7.5, AppPoolIdentity was promoted to the default option. You see this change if you’re running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2.
On my Windows 7 machine, I’m able to define my Application Pool Identity and then create an associated [...]
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Most of the time, I’m the guy who authors the show notes for the Herding Code Podcast. The workflow is relatively straight-forward: Jon shares the pre-production audio with me, I compete my write up and then ship the notes back to Jon for publishing with the edited audio. All file sharing is all done with [...]
By default, the ReSharper cache is stored in the solution folder. It’s one extra folder and one extra .user file. It’s no big deal but it does clutter up your solution a bit – especially since the files provide no real value.
I prefer to store the ReSharper cache in the system Temp folder. This [...]
SubText is the engine behind our company blog. With the goal of ensuring a smooth transition between the main website and the blogs, I spent some time tightening up the styles for the aggregate and individual blogs last week. This required a custom SubText skin and lot of css tweaking.
Though I’ve previously had the [...]
Last Wednesday, I took a whopping 15 minutes out of my day and added ELMAH (Error Logging Modules and Handlers) to my ASP.NET MVC application. If you haven’t heard the news (I hadn’t until recently), ELMAH does a killer job of logging and reporting nearly all unhandled exceptions. As for handled exceptions, I’ve been using [...]
I submitted the following question to StackOverflow last night and it was nearly immediately closed:
I listen to a silly number of technical podcasts. I listen to enough of them that it is literally impossible to keep up. I nearly gave up and started dropping feeds from my subscription list when I heard Craig Shoemaker talk [...]
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I was just speaking with a coworker about the tool I used to mockup screens in a recent requirements document. If you aren’t familiar with Balsamiq Mockups, you are missing out. Maybe you are responsible for application UI design or you simply like to sketch out your screens before you develop them? If so, take [...]