It is generally a Bad Thingtm when I am presented with a dialog from a source control management system and am not sure which button to click that will not destroy all of the changes I have made. Especially when there is no option to branch/shelve these changes just in case I do something stupid.
Archive for ‘September, 2007’
Take my picture
FridaySep 21,2007
by Scott Williams » click here for full post
An interesting [to me anyway] observation - When asking someone to take a picture of me with my camera:
4 years ago - With a point & shoot - Now, it’s digital so just look at the screen.
Today - With an SLR - No, you have to look through the viewfinder. No really, that screen is [...] Read more »
FogBugz For Free
SaturdaySep 15,2007
by Scott Williams » click here for full post
One of my favorite tech/programming blogs has been Joel Spolsky’s Joel On Software. I’ve also been interested in his company’s premier product, FogBugz, but the $129+ license fee turned away small time developers like myself.
Recently, they put together a version of FogBugz that is 100% hosted by Fog Creek’s servers, and included a “startup and [...] Read more »
Big msbuild gotcha
ThursdaySep 13,2007
by Scott Williams » click here for full post
Msbuild is not necessarily a “real” component of TFS, but it is heavily integrated throughout its build system (as well as Visual Studio 2005), so I’ll be recording my thoughts on it as well. It seems to be better than NAnt, a similar open source product, in most regards, but I have spent the better part [...] Read more »
A musical mind
ThursdaySep 6,2007
by Scott Williams » click here for full post
Back when I was a teenager, a CD was a sort of precious commodity. As with most of my peers, I didn’t have a ton of money, so shelling out $12-$15 per album was considered an investment; if you ended up with a CD that was barely worth a single listen, you couldn’t help but feel like you [...] Read more »
“Throwaway” dummy text
ThursdaySep 6,2007
by Scott Williams » click here for full post
Why you shouldn’t be too outlandish in the garbage text you create when debugging an email script: there may be someone else in the company that has the same name as you, and only a ‘.’ differentiates the address. The “other” Scott Williams was cool about it though. Fortunately I didn’t fill the body of [...] Read more »
Matt Berther on TFS Source Control
TuesdaySep 4,2007
by Scott Williams » click here for full post
He has a similar background as I do (coming from more of a SubVersion environment) and has similar gripes. I’m planning on writing an entire post on TFS’s Source Control, but he covers most of my point.
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