Month: March 2007

Following the Perl mantra of TMTOWTDI – we had a question come up about how to recursively delete a folder’s contents – without deleting the folder itself – using MSBuild. There are several solutions, but if you have a lot of crud to delete, one of the faster ways is to create a target which…

Combination of two interesting articles this evening. The first is that there is a new Ruby IDE on the block – NetBeans! Offering Code Completion and Rails support, it should be pretty cool. Here’s the full article. Speaking of programming, Microsoft released a new dev center for – beginning developers! The Beginner Developer Learning Center…

I was catching up on some of my mailing lists this evening when I came across the following post by the Agile Coach at my former employer:   One of our development groups, 4 XP teams, just ended a 3 month period of management imposed overtime. The result was lower velocity, more defects delivered to production,…

Every year, we get treated to an extra (or lost) hour of sleep or work when Daylight Savings Time changes. This year, there may be many lost hours of sleep if you aren’t watching your computer systems. That’s because this year DST starts three weeks earlier. Yep, Congress changed when it starts. The problem is…