Add the following tools to your toolset if you’re doing doing Continuous Integration with your .NET projects:
AnkhSVN - A Subversion SourceControl Provider for Visual Studio. The software allows you to perform the most common version control operations directly from inside the Microsoft Visual Studio IDE. With AnkhSVN you no longer need to leave your IDE [...]
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If you manage a start-up, and can’t afford to pay for software development tools, then these are for you. They are very popular in the open-source community. There is also plenty of help on these tools on the web to help you get started. I am currently using these for my projects as well, and [...]
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I have been busy in dealing with work, school, and a personal project of mine in the past month; thus, I have been neglecting my blog, but I will get back to my regular blogging in two weeks after I’m done with my summer class.
I want to share with everyone something interesting I saw today [...]
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I am going to set up and play around with this application called TortoiseCVS, which is a CVS client that runs on the Microsoft Windows platform. It’s officially recommendated by SourceForge. Thanks to Jin for telling me about this cool application. It’s free, so you should give it a try too.
Here is an overview of [...]
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Oracle is planning to buy the following three open-source software companies, which valued at more than $600 million according to Business Week Online.
JBoss: Based in Atlanta, specializes in so-called middleware, the program the serves as a connection between disparate programs, competition against BEA Systems and IBM, worth as much as $400 million [www.jboss.com]
Zend’s PHP software [...]
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If you haven’t done so already, you should go ahead and download Firefox browser. It comes with extensions and themes that you can download and install to improve your browsing experience. My favorite extension is the Web Developer and my favorite theme is iFox. Here is my recommended list of extensions.
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Select location bar: Ctrl+L or Alt+D
Select search bar: Ctrl+K
Back: Backspace or Alt+Left
Forward: Alt/Option+Right or Shift+Backspace
Change search engine: Ctrl+Down (Next) +Up (Previous)
Find as you type text: /
Find as you type link: ‘
Regular old find: Ctrl+F
Open link in new window: Shift+Enter
Open link in new tab: Ctrl+Enter
Open address/search in new tab: Alt/Option+Enter
Caret browsing: F7
Refresh: Ctrl+R or [...]
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My favorite browser and email programs at the moment are Mozilla Firefox (v. 1.5) and Thunderbird (v. 1.0.7). Both of them are free and very compact in size, so you won’t have any problem downloading them at all. Now I can use my Gmail email account with Thunderbird. Pretty cool!One of the [...]
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