Archive for October, 2007
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
So this is only BritSpeak because my brother Richard and I made it up while sitting in Becky's Diner in Portland, Maine. Becky's has a largish menu with lots of options. Not something I'm keen on dealing with before about 6pm. But diners are a must when visiting the East coast.
Richard, after ...
Tags: BritSpeak, Travel
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Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
Last night I tried to sync my iRiver H10 20Gb with all my latest music for an upcoming trip to Boston. Easy right? It's an appliance.
Plugging in the H10 resulted in the familiar ping of Windows XP (SP2) finding a new USB device and then... nothing happens. The H10 worked fine ...
Tags: Coding
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Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
I'm of to Bostin and New England for a few days to see my family and the leaves turn. So no posts for a few days. I'll be taking my Nikon D40 and 18-200mm VR lens so hopefully there's be some nice pictures for the picture gallery when I get ...
Tags: Travel
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Monday, October 8th, 2007
How do I allow developers to automatically sync to the last known good (LKG) version of the source code? The simplest algorithm for doing this appears to be:
Step 1: Update the CI build to automatically write the build time to a file outside the build tree each timethe build succeeds. ...
Tags: Continuous integration
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Sunday, October 7th, 2007
It's Sunday so how about something somewhat humorous...
So we all know about Scrum's pigs and chickens but what about seagulls? Seagulls, like chickens, are birds. But unlike a chicken seagulls are noisier and tend to crap all over the place. Seagulls like lots of other large birds don't live in ...
Tags: agile, Scrum
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