Category: Programming
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LinuxFest Northwest 2010: Apache Rewrites
Apache Rewrites — for Ninjas! This session is an overview of using Apache mod_rewrite, driven mostly by your interests and questions. Your Questions, Your Interests? The simple difference between rewrites and redirects. You can specify an redirection in a few ways, and they don’t need to be RewriteRules. You can use an Alias directive to…
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LinuxFest Northwest 2010: MySQL Buffet
MySQL Buffet This session covers topics in MySQL high availability and performance, centered mostly on your interests and questions. Your Questions? Your Interests? MySQL is a large topic and we can do a thumbnail overview followed by specific topics you’re interested in. I’ve listed the topics below in what I believe are the most important…
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50% Female Tech Employees?
Enrolling women in technology has been an ongoing topic for quite a while. Various communities like Ubuntu Women and many other groups have are focused on women in technology. Scott Hanselman conducts a surprising interview with some women programmers in Egypt, showing an impressively equitable gender mix. Very inspiring!
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Love Visual Studio, Crashes!
Moving the Call Stack window while debugging was crashing VS2009. Luckily, there was a KB article about it.
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Checking the Ends of Files
Bash command displays the end of files written recently: find -type f -mtime -1 | xargs ls -tra | tail | xargs tail
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What Every C# Dev Needs to Know About Dates
There’s a big difference in what a M, MM, MMM, and MMMM mean in a date format. Also, you can say: String.Format( “{0:yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss}”, DateTime.Now ) to convert a .Net date into a MySQL format date, without needing to pass a format string to the DateTime.ToString() method.
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Search Highlighting in VS 2008
I found a way to highlight search results in Visual Studio 2008, using the RockScroll add-in. I still miss the Highlighter plugin in jEdit, tho.
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Diffed and Merged…and Ported
“Hard at it,” is how you’d describe me these days. I’ve really learned a lot about programming C# in the last three weeks. There’s some stuff I like, even. I’m still, rather instinctively, feeling hesitant to praise Microsoft for anything…but it’s melting. Consider this latest Tools episode from The Commandline podcast. Thomas Gideon describes a…
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Well, the Microsoft has Landed on the Jed
I spent all day getting my workstation to build a set of pretty intense C# projects. I’m impressed that we got it working in a day (not counting the four days it took to straighten out my Visual Studio install on my Vista workstation). Having developed projects in Perl, PHP, Java and C, and having…
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