I have been going back and listening to old skool Hanselminutes.com podcasts. Show#8 points out some free tools that may still be somewhat useful:
Here are a couple stitched panorama shots. MS Research’s ICE was used to do the stiching, and it is pretty cool and easy.
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PLEASE NOTE: These panoramas are big. The files may take a bit to show in the lightbox pop-up, and they may still be tough to see. It may be best to just “right-click, save as” or “right-click, open in new tab” to view them.
The first panorama is 7 individual shots stitched together. The second is 13 stitched. ICE lets you drag and drop the photos and it figures out how to do all the stitching for you. Pretty amazing stuff.
I recently found out from a friend about MS Research’s Pex. There is some pretty cool stuff you can do with Pex, and the addition of Moles looks like it could be a pretty awesome testing suite. I have only scratched the surface of these tools.
Another cool new toy is NuGet. NuGet offers Gems-like package management for .Net. Cooler still is it is integrated into Visual Studio. You get a Powershell experience within VS to manage your packages. There is a brief intro video from Phil Haack, but I preferred David Ebbo’s extended tutorial.
Well, the Oxite MVC blog test failed. It was difficult to work with and they are changing it so drastically and there is so little documentation, I just decided to scrap it. I tried to go for a .NET engine, but in the end I went with the tried and true. If it ain’t broke I guess.
I am going to slowly manually convert each old Oxite post over to the new blog. Here goes nothing….
[EDIT: Thank you, Google cache. I did not have many posts anyway, so I was able to copy/paste them from the cached versions. Of course, the other content was not accessible, but I have it all on my laptop anyway. I'll get that all transferred over sometime in the near future. Some links may not work until then. Sorry...]
Someone asked me to show them how to do something via CSS, and this is the example I came up with. Thought I’d post it on here for posterity:
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This is really one of those duh kinda things, but I thought I’d just put it up here in case it helps at all.
Once I made the switch to Win7 on my work PC, I noticed when I remote desktop’d in I could not run the debugger for an already open VS instance without shutting down and starting as admin. I noticed in some screencast from people such as Phil Haack that the VS window had “(Administrator)” in the title bar. This made a little light bulb appear over my head as I had an “aha!” moment: just run VS as an admin.
I had already pinned VS to my taskbar, so I stopped for a second when I right-clicked on the VS icon and saw no “Run as administrator” option. I quickly realized I could right-click yet again on “Microsoft Visual Studio 2010″ fromt he jump menu and lo and behold there was my “Run as administrator” option.
One thing that has always baffled me and my co-workers is SVN tree conflicts. I thought it would be a good idea to keep track of different scenarios that result in tree conflicts as an exercise in demystifying them.
So the whole reason I started this stupid blog was so I’d have a place to fall back on with all the interesting crap I found on the interwebz. Yeah, that worked out well…
So why the hell am I not just adding every cool thing I find?!? Because it is way easier to bookmark it. Hell, I use this pre-alpha version of Oxite and I gotta type in my HTML markup by hand. How archaic is that! [Edit: not any more!]
Well, here is a great link to TortoiseSVN automation. I have been working towards completely automating our release procedure, and we always had the Tortoise dialog that we had to click “OK” for every time. We all know how completely annoying that can be, right? Well, no more!
What good is this post without some sort of example, right? Well here you go.
We used to do something like so:
"C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin\TortoiseProc.exe" /command:update /path:%FOLDER%
That has the annoying dialog. So now we just do the following:
"C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin\TortoiseProc.exe" /command:update /closeonend:2 /path:%FOLDER%
That handy little /closeonend saves my click-finger! Voila! The post goes into detail on the parameter, so have a look.
This isn’t the exact file we use, but the majority of it was taken from this post. Dan has a great file that you can pretty much drag ‘n drop and have some seriously cool emails flying around. As Dan notes, you’ll need SendMail, but it is practically an out-of-the-box solution.
I get email. A LOT of email. It is a bit hard to manage, so I got rules up the wazoo! I originally had all the commit emails simply going into my “Commits” subfolder. However, we have some different apps, and a few different web sites going on, so having all the notifications dumped into a single folder wasn’t working either. Dan’s script adds some useful information to the subject line, but it wasn’t quite what I was looking for. I was trying to use keywords from the body of the email, but that wasn’t 100% either. So, I had to make some tweaks to get what I wanted.
I wanted to add the repo folder that was updated to the subject line. This way, I could write my rules to look for keywords based on the folder names of our projects in the repo. This would be fool-proof. Batch files have always been a little odd to me, and some of the deep, dark recesses of DOS are left unexplored. I did some searching and came up with this StackOverflow question about getting details of what was committed via svnlook. Using the dir-changed along with the suggested for loop worked quite well. Now all I had to do was get a part of the dir-changed.
More searching turned up this and this, which are both essentially the same. They pointed me down the right path and I got it going.
I am totally anal. I have personally labeled myself a “Code Nazi”. I can’t stand extra spaces, or extra line breaks, or anything that is seemingly unnecessary. It seems that svnlook author must add some extra spaces to the end of the author name, because there were 3 extra spaces at the end of every name. Up until now, I decided to just let this go. I mean, really, it wasn’t like it made the subject line illegible or anything. But, I love Mike Holmes, and like he says, make it right! So more searching turned up this great page on DOS string manipulation. I used it to replace the spaces in the author name and now the subject line is perfect!
After all this talking, I could at least share the code, right? As I said earlier, it is heavily borrowed from Dan’s great code, with some minor updates made for my taste. Here you go:
@ECHO OFF REM ************************************************************* REM * this sets the arguments supplied by Subversion * REM ************************************************************* SET REPOS=%1 SET REV=%2 REM ************************************************************* REM * define the path to the working copy of your code * REM * * REM * the default working_copy folder would be: * REM * file:///%REPOS% * REM ************************************************************* SET WORKING_COPY=file:///c:/web/svnroot SET DIR=%REPOS%/hooks REM ************************************************************* REM * get author's name * REM ************************************************************* for /f %%a in ( 'c:\svn\svnlook.exe author %REPOS% -r %REV%' ) do ( SET AUTHOR=%%a ) REM ************************************************************* REM * define e-mail parameters * REM ************************************************************* SET SITENAME=emw2k8dev SET SMTP_SERVER=192.168.0.112 SET EMAIL_TO=svn@evan-moor.com SET EMAIL_FROM=svn@evan-moor.com for /F "eol=; tokens=1 delims=/" %%a in ( 'c:\svn\svnlook.exe dirs-changed %REPOS% -r %REV%' ) do ( SET SITENAME=%%a ) SET SUBJECT=SVN Update - %AUTHOR: =% - %SITENAME% - rev %REV% - \\emw2k8dev\%REPOS:C:\=% REM ************************************************************* REM * generate the header to use for the e-mail message * REM ************************************************************* ECHO The following changes were made to the code: > %DIR%/email.txt ECHO. >> %DIR%/email.txt REM ************************************************************* REM * dump the log of changes to the e-mail message * REM ************************************************************* c:\svn\svn log %WORKING_COPY% -v -r "%REV%" >> %DIR%/email.txt ECHO. >> %DIR%/email.txt REM ************************************************************* REM * dump the diff changes to the e-mail message * REM * * REM * WARNING: Generates tons of output * REM * * REM * NOTE: this is optional, you can remove this information * REM * if you do not want a verbose message of changes * REM ************************************************************* c:\svn\svn diff %WORKING_COPY% -c "%REV%" --no-diff-deleted >> %DIR%/email.txt ECHO. >> %DIR%/email.txt REM ************************************************************* REM * send the e-mail message to the user * REM ************************************************************* c:\web\svnroot\sendEmail.exe -s %SMTP_SERVER% -t %EMAIL_TO% -f %EMAIL_FROM% -u "%SUBJECT%" -o message-file=%DIR%/email.txt -l %DIR%/SendEmail.log
So it is by no means perfect or anything, but it may come in handy to someone else.
I am thinking about adding a star rating to one of the sites at work, so I started poking around for what was available in a jQuery plugin. Surprisingly, there are quite a few plugins but none that I totally fell in love with. they either don’t degrade, or use form elements I don’t hink they should, or whatever. I thought it would be a good exercise to try and roll my own plugin.
I started of checking out some how-to’s for jQuery plugin writing, but I usually learn better by doing, so I started with the closest thing I like, Wil Stuckey and John Resig’s rating plugin. It is pretty good, but it just needed a little nudge to be better. I figured this was a good way to start. I would not have to write an entire plugin from scratch, and I’d learn from one of the guys that created jQuery, so how could I go wrong?
It took a few days, with a few hours spent here and there. All in all I feel pretty good about the plugin, though I am sure I could make it better, and I likely forgot something important. If you are interested, you can grade the code from my code section, and there is a demo available too. Let me know what you think in the comments.