It’s that time of year
Crontabs around the world started saluting me about 22:00 local time.
Another solar cycle in the books.
VPN
After months of having the hardware sitting around, I finally set up a VPN server; now I can VPN from my iPad or phone while on insecure networks. Woot!
Dammit, Microsoft
You have to log on to refresh your developer license once a month. This means no more fire-and-forget build servers.
You also can’t run unit tests outside an interactive session, so no unit tests with every checkin.
I still assert Windows 8 is the beginning of the end for the home team. The new tools are as anti-developer as can be, short of having Eclipse corrupt your project randomly.
Creaming method
I’ve heard, a couple times, that professional recipes are a list of ingredients, an instruction of “creaming method“, and a time and temp to cook.
This means you combine the dry stuff, combine the wet stuff, cream them together, and cook it.
You don’t cook the dry stuff for however long you want then mix in the wet stuff.
Dammit.
Reinvent copy reading
First:
You will be our second hire, and will be treated like a co-founder.
Second:
If you are our first hire then email us
Talk to me about ELVIS
Working in NSPG at Sun was a great joy. Scott stuck Sun’s finger in the eye of ITAR for a while; in the end, we gave up.
