Posts Tagged “On Software”

April 20, 2016
New TeamCity Octopus Deploy Build Trigger Plugin

My side project for the last few months has been a plugin for TeamCity that allows you to setup build triggers for certain events in Octopus Deploy.As of today, I’m declaring it ready for public use. :DIt allows you to trigger builds when: a depl...
April 12, 2016
Continuous Integration with Octopus Deploy Step Templates

Octopus Deploy is a great tool in the .net space for deploying applications and managing the lifecycle of the deployments across different environments.One of the really nice features is the extensibility around step templates (the basic building ...
December 04, 2015
Converting a Portable Class Library project to use project.json

I’ve been helping setting up a whole bunch of builds in TeamCity for a client, moving them over from TFS. As the build log is, err, not that easy to see in TFS, the developers have not been paying too much attention to the warnings that the build ...
January 20, 2008
Nerd Post: Damn useful links...

Warning - if you're not a nerd, dont bother reading any further. No, really, I mean it.Anyhoo, related to some stuff i've been playing around with lately: Modifying your modem driver file to support caller id (and other 'unrecognised respon...
January 02, 2008
Censorship...

Hmmm... Not so impressed that Australia has just joined China in censoring the internet... Censorship is a slippery slope to start down.
August 21, 2007
Time to hand in your licence, Mr Spolsky...

Just read about Joel Spolsky's trouble opening a DVD case. Now, I've got a lot of respect for about 3/4 of what he writes, and complete contempt for the rest...Today he rants about the trouble he had opening the Office 2007 DVD case. Apparently it...
July 01, 2007
If the eye was a digital camera...

Okay, this is slightly nerdy, but hey, I thought it was interesting... Notes on the Resolution and Other Details of the Human Eye.Apparently its equivalent to a 576 megapixel camera... Cool.
June 26, 2007
Way cool...

Go check out Photosynth that Microsoft Live Labs has put together... Very cool.
October 24, 2006
Brainbench tests...

Just did yet another Brainbench test the other day, as part of the hunt for a contract job...Thought it might be interesting to share the results I've had over the time: <FONT size=2>Date <FONT size=2>Subject <FONT size=2>Scor...
October 14, 2006
Vista RC2...

Got it installed, and 90% setup. Seems quite good, smooth, and stable. Very pretty too...Only had three issues - it didn't want to setup while connected to my TV, and also that it seems that media centre shuts down when you connect to the mac...
October 02, 2006
A changed mindset...

From the RSS team blog: It has therefore been our #1 guiding principle that we would aim for a secure experience first -- sacrificing functionality, if necessary,to achieve it.<P dir=ltr>Definitely a change in the mindset - it used to be all...
September 09, 2006
Why i like .net...

A little naïve, but still a great story: How to make a corporate butt pucker.That said, even if it takes 10 times as long, still damn good.Oh, how I want to be doing ASP.NET rather than using technology over a decade old... <IMG alt=:( cla...
August 15, 2006
Possibilities...

Been looking into some asp.net and atlas stuff recently, and I've really enjoyed it. Even was playing with some virtual earth mapping stuff the other day, which was very cool. It was so easy, but still so powerful. Its takes away so much that you ...
August 07, 2006
I'm loving this Atlas stuff...

Been reading about, watching a few screencasts, and even doing a bit of Atlas development, with ASP.NET.Damn, I'm loving it! Its going to make life sooo much easier.Now, just have to get away from doing the ancient (and extremely painful) ASP that...
July 25, 2006
Email to txt....

Just managed to setup the T-Mobile email to txt service... I'm really not sure how useful it is, but if you so desire, you can send a txt via email to me at xxx@t-mobile.uk.net... Suprisingly, the xxx is my phone number... I'm assuming you've...
July 15, 2006
Which part of my brain decided it was a good idea to...

Which part of my brain decided it was a good idea to get this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this and this, and try and turn it into something like this.Not working as planned <IMG alt=:( class="emoticon" src="/images/emotions/emoti...
July 06, 2006
What I'm reading...

Currently reading "Joel on Software: And on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That Will Prove of Interest to Software Developers, Designers, and Managers, and to Those Who, Whether by Good Fortune or Ill Luck, Work with Them in Some Cap...
July 06, 2006
Finally! Somebody twigs that Apple & the iPod are anti-competitve...

Finally, instead of purely Microsoft bashing, law-makers have finally realised that the iPod is anti-competitive.French law-makers have approved a law forcing Apple to make its music format available to other manufacturers, rather than only allowi...
May 31, 2006
New funkyness...

Okay. Just finished a site update to the esoteric oneroundpebble, so its now hip, happening, and with it, for the 21st century. Or something. But, anyhow, hope you like the new colour scheme, and if you dont, well, there's not a lot you can do abo...
April 29, 2006
Site update...

Seeing some people whinged, I did a little jiggery-pokery-black-magic, and now there's a little hourglass when you expand the treeview, and it loads the menu items in the navigation panel. You know, that thing on the left. Go on, try it....
April 10, 2006
A slight update...

Just spent a bit of time updating www.oneroundpebble.com today. Now the navigation bar on the left should be a lot quicker to load, as it now dynamically loads the child nodes. Hopefully it also works on more people's computers.Had to fight a...
November 18, 2005
An interesting article about research...

This article, written in 1945, foresaw issues finding information, when you've got too much information stored, and a way to solve it. <A title=http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/computer/bushf.htm href="http://www.theatlantic.com/unbo...
November 18, 2005
Nerd post: Hard Shut Down May Be Your Friend

From: http://www.coolbits.nu/413.aspx Oh, today is an icky day. A week and half ago, Loren built me a lovely new desktop computer that I just about had set-up just the way I wanted it. Then this morning, the hard drive with all the programs died a...
November 18, 2005
Nasa shoulda used .net...

http://bistrotech.net/weblog/PermaLink,guid,d16ff74f-d1a6-46e6-8146-af5869d746d2.aspx
November 18, 2005
The latest linux install...

Forget installing linux onto watches, psp's, xboxes and the like... Installing Linux on a Dead Badger: User's Notes(have a quick look, even if you're not a nerd...)
November 09, 2005
Geek post: Firefox plugins...

Why is everyone so excited about the Firefox plugins that you can make?They seem to think that they are the bees knees, yet as far as i can tell, they dont do anything that hasn't been available for donkeys years in Internet Explorer.Just another ...
October 13, 2005
Software project management articles

I ran across a few interesting articles in the last little while, both from the same site, haacked.com:First one is Going into Design Debt, which is a great way of explaining to management how (lack of) proper design now impacts the project.Second...
September 01, 2005
One giant leap for developers...

Ran across this site a while back - a competition where you can win ipods, dvd's, or a space flight, 99 km above the earth, just for entering a competition...Whatever will they think of next...?
August 13, 2005
Tech post: Fix: Intermittent HTTP 403 errors with ActiveSync

First of all to my regular reader (okay, readers, there are 2 of you, after all) - this is a very techy post, so feel free to just skip over it...A few weeks back, I managed to resolve an issue we were having with intermittent HTTP 403 errors whil...
August 13, 2005
The state of IT recruitment...

Just a quick note to say how disgusted I am with the state of IT recruitment in London these days. I mean, if I get another (effectively) spam email that outlines a job where the only relation to me is that its in IT, and hey, I just happen to wor...
June 15, 2005
On dating developers...

Once again, I'm not sure if I want to associate myself with this, but its pretty funny... (And no, I'm not that bad).
June 13, 2005
The geek dinner...

Went along to the geek dinner the other night, a little worried at how bad it was going to be (who wouldn't be scared at the thought of going to a place where 200 people are voluntarily going to something called a “geek dinner”...)But,...
June 13, 2005
Online crash analysis...

You know those little error messages you get when a program crashes, and you get the option to send the information to Microsoft?The ones that you ignore all the time, cos you dont really know what they mean?Well, I found a good description of why...
May 17, 2005
Using gmail as a internet hard drive...

Ran accross a handy little proggie that allows you to use a GMail email account as a drive accessible from anywhere. Cool, huh?Its been around quite a while, so it seems that Google is not too upset about it.
May 17, 2005
Bloggers dinner...

Now, I've already been laughed at for this, so I'm gonna try and word it a bit better this time...I just signed up for a bloggers dinner thats happening early next month. Now, hopefully its not gonna be a complete geek fest - I'm going cos it...
May 17, 2005
Startups...

Paul Graham wrote an excellent piece on why Hiring is Obsolete (all about why undergrads should go start a company). Always nice when someone tells you: Even if your startup does tank, you won't harm your prospects with employers. To make sur...
May 17, 2005
Not that anyone cares...

But i just updated my blogroll. For those that dont know what that means, well, go outside and play, and be grateful. Very grateful.For those that disregarded the previous advice, and for some odd reason are still reading,well, its a list of all t...
April 11, 2005
Geek tip - Reclaiming the Ctrl-R (show project explorer) keyboard shortcut.

(This is a geek post - if you're not a geek [ie, most of you], skip it)For the maybe 3 or 4 people who read this that are developers, they most likely use Visual Studio.NET.In VB6, you used to be able to go Ctrl+R to show the project explorer...
April 02, 2005
*Shock* *Horror* I got me an iPod Shuffle!

Went out to a team lunch the other day, to celebrate the fact that we released dealscope onto mergermarket, and apparently, everyone liked it lots and lots, both internally and externally. So, to thank us for this, the boss/company gave us ea...
March 11, 2005
How come nobody reads my blog?

Ran across this while reading Scoble's blog yesterday, and thought it was kind of appropriate...<IMG src="http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/zzzzzz7654197.jpg" P <> If you like it, go check out the <Ahref="http://www.gap...
March 11, 2005
On software: XP find not working too well?

For ages, I've been getting extremely frustrated about XP's find functionality, especially with the 'find text in files' functions.For some odd reason, it never seemed to find text that I knew was in the files that I was searching a...
January 09, 2005
English...

Just downloading FireFox (which is a different internet browser, like Internet Explorer, but stupider), and i came across the download link: But... I thought the British invented English... Nerd bit: If you must know, I'm downloading cos of the in...