Weekly Links #2

January 26, 2009

Microsoft InfoMesa Project Whiteboard for your data
Fabric – like Capistrano but written in Python
A Visual Introduction to Screen
retlang – Google Code
Tim Sneath : The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets
update-engine – Google Code

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PowerShell and svnadmin dump/load

January 26, 2009

Recently I was migrating several Subversion repositories from a Windows server over to a Solaris one and ran into a rather frustrating issue. Actually it’s quite an interesting problem, but was frustrating due to the size of the repositories involved, and my fear that repositories were borked.
It all started with my decision to fire up [...]

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First impressions of Windows 7 Beta 1

January 11, 2009

After a very quick install on a Dell XPS M1710 laptop, and a few hours of messing around, I have come to the conclusion that this is going to be the best release of Windows yet. At the same time, it’s not very exciting for the alpha geek in me. Perhaps it is good to [...]

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Weekly Links #1

January 11, 2009

I manage my bookmarks using a Delicious Bookmarklet, and I’ll post some of the best on my blog each week.

Hiring for an Agile Team: Possible Questions
FontExplorer® X – The new professional font management software
TextMate Blog » Working With History in Bash
Using MVC to Unit Test WPF Applications
Mole v4.2 For Visual Studio [...]

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Return of the blog

January 3, 2009

Maybe this year will be the one where I get back on the path to regular blogging. Between 2002 and 2004 I was a fairly frequent blogger and then things got substantially busier when I moved to the US. The obligatory first post these days seems to be some background information on the blogger, but [...]

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