March 2008 - Posts
How long can it take to update a crappy installer and remove a hard-coded platform check?? Whatever...
From this german blog, get the straight WLW 2008 MSI which works like a charm.
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When you finish the setup, the configuration wizard may not start, and upon starting it manually, you might get:
The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect.
The hack to make it run is not pretty, but it's straightforward. Just follow the steps in MySQL Server 5.0.51a Installation guide for Windows Vista which also works with Win2008.
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I got this question a couple times in the past MIX08 at Las Vegas. And this is a very valid question indeed, given that there's already Rhino, EasyMock, TypeMock and NMock (to name a few). So why did we give you Moq?
One possible answer would be to start with a checklist of what Moq offers that others don't in terms of supported features. That would be a mistake, though, as it could be easily argued that a better choice would have been to contribute to an already established opensource framework that accepted community contributions....
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Seriously, WWWWW TTTTT FFFFFF ?!?!?!?!
From http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01212412&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=3548164&lang=en:
NOTE: The HP MediaSmart Server does not support client computers running 64-bit operating systems.
And I already got mine, and now it's a piece of useless (though nice-looking) crap. Can't get the client connector to install.
DAMN IT!!!
Update: there's a way to set it up, and it's working fine so far. phiuuu!!!
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I HATE this default so much. Every stupid interface gets its own #region in my code file. I wonder who thought regions were so cool...
Anyway, just go to Tools -> Options and please-please turn it off!!!
And please-please-please-please VOTE TO MAKE IT OFF BY DEFAULT!!!
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Sometimes, System.Object methods (Equals, GetHashCode, GetType and ToString) only contribute clutter to VS intellisense. Everyone knows those members are always there, yet they are seldom used explicitly. This is especially important (and annoying) for fluent APIs that define the flow of invocations in terms of interfaces and usually have few members at each "step" of the statement.
For example, in the following Moq expectation, at the particular step in the statement, there are only two "real" invocations that make sense. However, they are obscured by the ...
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Just go and see it at the Memorabilia Hard Rock site.
I thought it would take years for Seadragon to see the light in a product. How fast is Microsoft moving these days... (in some areas ;))
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From Pablo's announcement:
PowerCommands is a set of useful extensions for the Visual Studio 2008 adding additional functionality to various areas of the IDE.
I'm loving this add-on to VS. My favorites commands:
- Collapse Projects
This command collapses a hierarchy in the solution explorer starting from the root selected node. It can be executed from three different places: solution, solution folders and project nodes respectively. - Copy References
This command copies a reference or set of references to the clipboard. It can be executed from the references node, a single reference node or set of reference nodes. ...
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For the past couple weeks, we've been very busy putting together a prototype that was running at an InSTEDD booth in the prestigious TED conference. Of anecdotal interest is the fact that it's the first time in TED's history that such a demo is run remotely from South America (Buenos Aires, Argentina, in this case :)).
The purpose was to show how deep-field data collection can be performed using ubiquitous and generally cheap (in some places even free!) text messages from cell phones (a.k.a. SMS), and how that data can be surfaced quite easily in geographically meaningful representations (i.e. Google Earth, Google Maps and Microsoft Virtual Earth) to support decision making in scenarios such as pandemic/outbreak detection and disaster/emergency responses. Also very important was to show that such a mechanism by no means has to be one-way....
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