Archive for March, 2008
Thursday, March 13th, 2008
And now for something completely different... I was tweaking the archive page on my climbing blog last night. I wanted to change the way the heading of each archive page looked to use a HTML <H2> tag not a <P>. This got me into some simple refactoring of PHP ...
Tags: Coding
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
Recently I've been making some changes to some WordPress templates written in PHP.
How did I edit my PHP files? Turns out that David Cumps has added coloring support for PHP Visual Studio 2008! Notepad2 also supports PHP coloring but doesn't copy/paste into LiveWriter with the coloring and doesn't allow you ...
Tags: Coding, Visual Studio
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
As promised, another post on actually writing code as I've been busy trying the help the p&p DocTools project out the door. One of the final hurdles was getting the VSTO Word Document Add-In use delay signing. I was missing a key step in this process... Build ...
Tags: Coding, Gotchas, Visual Studio, VSTO
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Martin Fowler has a great post on the "Cheaper Talent Hypothesis". This cross cuts some ideas I've blogged about in the past; offshore development to increase talent not cut costs and interviewing at Microsoft (why hire great people).
All of this is born out by my experiences - and I suspect ...
Tags: agile, Distributed teams
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