Category Archives: General

New Laptop and Windows 7

Posted on 2009/01/20 by wolf

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

Posted on 2009/01/18 by wolf

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 →

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VS2003 Web App Project and Subversion

Posted on 2009/01/16 by wolf

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

Posted on 2009/01/13 by wolf

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 →

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Bazaar TuneWiz Launchpad

Posted on 2009/01/11 by wolf

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 →

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New Application TuneWiz

Posted on 2009/01/11 by wolf

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 →

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App Idea: RSS De-duplicator

Posted on 2009/01/06 by wolf

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 →

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LINQ Epiphany

Posted on 2009/01/06 by wolf

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 →

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First Post!

Posted on 2009/01/06 by wolf

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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