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Author Archives: wolf
New Laptop and Windows 7
I just took ownership of a Dell M4400 refurbished laptop. I was excited to bust it out, but my heart sank when I cracked the lid and saw the bezel above the keyboard wasn’t seated. I pushed down and it … Continue reading
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New FinalBuilder Custom Action: Check Required Variables
I’ve been using FinalBuilder for a while now. It’s icon based scripting language for creating build scripts. It reminds me me of a multimedia language I used a long time ago called IconAuthor. Initially I had resisted the tool because … Continue reading
VS2003 Web App Project and Subversion
Wow, this problem took way too long to track down. I was creating a build script for a legacy VS2003 Web App project. It is being migrated from Perforce and given an official build script. The command line build was … Continue reading
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TuneWiz Loosely Coupled, Easily Testable
A few years ago someone introduced me to the idea of unit testing with NUnit. Brilliant! Whenever I develop applications I inevitably write a lot of throw away code. Lots of code to verify assumptions. I would simply delete or … Continue reading
Bazaar TuneWiz Launchpad
Professionally I have been an administrator for CVSNT, Perforce, Vault, and Subversion. In my experience, the one area all these systems seem to fall flat is renaming when combined with merging/branching. All of those systems start to look long in … Continue reading
New Application TuneWiz
I’ve started a new project called TuneWiz. Problem: I have a very specific way I like to process and manage my music files. I’m warming on the iTunes application, but it doesn’t always work very well with the way I … Continue reading
App Idea: RSS De-duplicator
I frequently think up ideas for applications and I’m going to start entering them here. I like brainstorming even if I don’t decide to pursue development. Problem: I’ve used craigslist rss feeds to search for things I’m interested in for … Continue reading
LINQ Epiphany
LINQ is old news, but I recently started using Visual Studio 2008 and had the LINQ Epiphany. I’m working on an application to do some automation work with iTunes. I was writing a method and it occurred to me using … Continue reading
First Post!
Welcome to the wolf++ blog. Professionally I am a Software Configuration Engineer / Release Engineer / Toolsmith / Build Guy / Source Control Guy. Personally and professionally I’m a geek with a lot of interests. I decided to create this … Continue reading
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