Garry Pilkington


Application Developer
Liverpool, UK

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Web Site Performance and Assembly Versioning – Part 3 Versioning Combined Files Using Mercurial
Minification and Concatination of JavaScript and CSS Files Versioning Combined Files Using Subversion Versioning Combined Files Using Mercurial – this post I have worked on a project recently where there was a need to version the system (library dll,...
Web Site Performance and Assembly Versioning – Part 2 Versioning Combined Files Using Subversion
Ok so it took a while to post this second part. Many apologies, we had a big roll out of a new platform at work and many things had to get sidelined. So this is the second part in a short series of website performance and using versioning to help improve...
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Branching and Merging with TortoiseSVN
For this example I am using Visual Studio 2010, TortoiseSVN 1.6.6, Subversion 1.6.6 and AnkhSVN 2.1.7819.411, so if you are using different versions, some of these screen shots may differ. This is assuming you have your code checked in to the trunk directory...
WinMerge as a Comparison Tool in Visual Studio 2008
Ok I know VS 2010 is the new toy to be seen playing around with, but as I have just recently  got delivery of my new Windows 7 pc I thought I would document how to get WinMerge to work as a comparison tool with VS2008 Team System. If for anything...
Windows Explorer and Microsoft SkyDrive
Bit by bit more of our lives are moving in to the cloud. I have been a bit late to this party as I have never published my photos to Flikr or any other image sharing site. That is mainly because I want to keep them secret and I am really just after an...
Code Snippet Plugin for Live Writer
For anybody who regularly displays code using Live Writer, then this plugin by Leo Vildosola is a must to check out. When ever I do a rebuild of any of my computers this has to go on and I always have trouble remembering where I found it. So here are...
Quickly reading technical articles and books
There is so much information out there pertaining to our jobs, a lot comes in the form of articles and books. How do you get through all this information fast without loosing comprehension? Well this is my technique. I have used this since my university...
Open containing folder
This is one VS 2008 shortcut I use all the time. Open the folder which contains the file you are currently working on. Simply right click the tab in the editor view and choose that option. Ok nothing new there. It would be better if there was a shortcut...
My end of year tool honours list
Well the holiday season is finally upon us, and I would like to take this opportunity to post a list of applications that I personally have found useful over the past 12 months. There are some classics in there, but a few surprises. Have a look, there...
Auto-generating help with NAnt and CC.net
We are about to be audited here where I work. That is the IT department, not the company as a whole. As part of this we have to get all our IT documentation up to scratch. One problem being we don't know when they are coming and what exactly they are...
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