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Notes on the software build process
The build is the pulse of any software development activity and a good build system facilitates quality software development. My current thoughts on a build process are as follows Build Machine The build machine is a dedicated physical or virtual machine...
Excellent article on how to start a startup
Paul Graham who has written an excellent article on how to start a startup . He is also the author of a great book called Hackers and Painters , a definte read. http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html
VSS Automation script
In our company we have a policy of creating a checkin mail that describes the files that you are checking in and what changes or bugs have been fixed in that checkin. The process of creating the mail involved opening VSS and then getting a list of all...
Damn CS-RCS
Yesterday, i installed CS-RCS from ComponentSoftware , i was looking for a configuration management component which we could integrate into our product which needs to support document versions. ( I still haven't found any suitable candidates) So anyways...
GUI design patterns again
Jeff points to another good site on UI design patterns
2 good blogs
Came across two great blogs today http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/ by Jeff Atwood and http://www.danappleman.com/ by Dan Appleman (Yes, he is blogging again) Also Jeff pointed me to this site on GUI design patterns .
The x86 Prayer
Found this amazingly geek goody on Matt's site ( Shame on you if you don't know who he is) . I was literally ROTFL after reading this, Our Caller, who art on the stack frame Hallowed be thy Parameters Thy Address Space come Thy I/O be done In Registers...
Identity Crisis
I had been trying to connect my laptop to my home pc using a cross cable for so many days. Finally yesterday i decided to get it done no matter what. The problem was that despite all proper TCP/IP settings the two computers were not able to ping each...
Great site for connection strings
This site has a great collection of connection strings for different scenarios and explanations for all the options that are used in connection strings. A definite bookmark if you are involved in DB programming.
Posts of the Day
Came across some really good reads today Kirk Allen writes about the choices we developers have to make in face of ignorant management. “They are millionaires” Joel Pobar has an excellent post on the implementation of the GC in Rotor. Panoptican...
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