February 2007 - Posts

Manual Page Breaks and Fit To Page conflict
Published 02-28-2007 4:06 PM | jokiz
I've been struggling for hours why i couldn't make a manual page break after i did a fit to page width configuration for a worksheet in my task only to find out about this kb here , and a post from usenet here . I later found another post about the problem...
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gmail shortcut keys
Published 02-23-2007 2:22 PM | jokiz
i have just started using the shortcut keys for gmail as shown here . as usual, i printed a copy and pasted it in my cubicle borders. i love it when they standardize navigation keys, the J and K keys for move up and move down selections are similar with...
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Ankhsvn 1.0.1 now available
Published 02-21-2007 10:04 AM | jokiz
If you're like me who had a hard time with the blue icon color for modified files in Ankhsvn 1.0 final, just grab the latest bits of Anksvn here . The team has released a patch to change the modified icon to orange.
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Reflector tips
Published 02-21-2007 9:48 AM | jokiz
Here are some tips on using Lutz Roeder's Reflector that some of you might not yet know. Enclose search parameters with quotes for exact match. Use AssemblyList for sets of assemblies (I currently have .NET 1.1, .NET 2.0, CSLA 1.1, CSLA 2.0, NHibernate...
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Crashing windows update
Published 02-19-2007 10:09 AM | jokiz
I recently turned on Automatic Updates in my laptop and since last saturday, i experienced a crashing svchost process related to it after boot up. There were times that i couldn't access any MMC plugin application and even my control panel after the crash...
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VBA Gripes
Published 02-15-2007 11:24 AM | jokiz
Ctrl+Y - I've hit Ctrl+Y hoping that it will do a re-do typing after an undo operation only to know that my lines are being deleted No shortcircuit for conditionals No method overloading No static constructor equivalent for modules Code window does not...
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Installing subversion windows service
Published 02-15-2007 10:38 AM | jokiz
My task yesterday was to transfer our subversion server to our new server. I have the binaries for subversion 1.4.3 and our repository transferred and what's left is the creation of the windows service. i am using sc.exe to create the windows service...
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One year - longest term
Published 02-13-2007 10:30 AM | jokiz
The first day of this month marked my one year term here at my current company. It has been the longest time that I stayed in a company in my career. I've spent 6 months with Asia Systems Group Inc., 11 months with Codex Software Development, and 8 months...
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TDD-CI environment work - definitely a plus
Published 02-07-2007 5:29 PM | jokiz
We still have a job advertisement for a C# developer and one of the requirements is experience in agile software development using T est- D riven D evelopment and C ontinuous I ntegration setup. You can hardly find a .NET company in the Philippines which...
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Generate DB script using NAnt's copy-replacetokens task
Published 02-05-2007 8:03 PM | jokiz
most of our .NET projects has a database project with three scripts in it, (1) create database script, (2) database shema script and the (3) default data script. for our pre-release, we packaged the database creation with default data in our Installshield...
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No logs produced when using NCover 1.3.3 with .NET 2.0
Published 02-05-2007 1:21 PM | jokiz
NCover says that version 1.5.5 is broken for .NET 1.x , so i opted to use version 1.3.3 for our .NET 1.1 projects. When I became involved with a .NET 2.0 project, i was curious why there are no logs emmitted for CCNET to render. I'm using NCover to profile...
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