Technical thoughts
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Top 10 Version Control Features of TFS
2013-05-15
Everyone who uses TFS as a Version Control System has their reasons. Usually, it is about the features and everyone has their favorites. Here are my top 10 favorite TFS... -
Getting started with .NET
2013-01-26
Motivation I was joining a .NET project. As a developer who has worked mostly on Unix systems for the last 17 years, this was, shall we say, a learning opportunity.... -
An interesting find
2011-11-09
We needed to expose a resource such that its url looked like:http://www.example.com/widgets/<url-encoded-identifier>In some cases, we found that the request never made it to the controller. The reason for that was... -
What is Object Oriented Programming?
2011-07-16
I find that a lot of people with a lot of experience in "Object Oriented Programming" really struggle to understand what it actually is. I wanted to find an easy... -
Ruby and Snow Leopard upgrade
2010-08-08
I finally decided to plonk down $29 and install Mac OS X Snow Leopard. When I tried running Cucumber, I got an error about the Gherkin lexer... "gherkin_lexer_en.bundle: mach-o, but... -
New Relic is awesome!
2009-12-16
We setup New Relic in production yesterday. Its awesome! If you're running a rails project of any size, I would say its an indispensable tool.Here's a brief review:What it has... -
On Maven
2009-12-13
Maven sucks. It's evil. It makes me want to scream! Why? Three big reasons: it hides problems, it promotes the dysfunctional organization of your team and it stains to your... -
Ctrl-R in bash
2008-03-22
I started using bash in 1996 when I installed Slackware 3.1 on a Packard Bell 486 SX2 50 MHz machine. Eleven and a half years later, I learn about Ctrl-R... -
Branching for code-reuse
2007-09-12
You wrote some code. Your app works. Now you want to do something slightly different. Timelines are tight. You want to give the new team enough control to get their... -
I'm starting a blog!
2007-06-16
Woohoo! I’m excited! But what am I going to blog about? My intention is to write about two topics, primarily: socio-economic development (especially in India) and the art of software....