The Johnson Blog

As I mentioned last night, I made the 1.0.0 build of Chef and started doing some installation testing on Vista.
It’s official - Vista’s UAC is kicking my ass.   It’s during the database setup that I’m having the problem.  Sql Server gets installed OK, it’s for some reason the database restore that times out.
Kinda tired of [...]

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I would like a software product that would allow me to define “profiles” of windows services to be running or stopped.  For instance, there are times when I’m not on my LAN at home and want to code on my laptop.  That entails having my sql server instance up and running.  But I don’t want [...]

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I am reading Code Complete, 2nd Edition (great Valentine’s Day gift Ana! and must say that it’s much better and far more interesting than I expected it to be. I thought of it as being one of those books that you just have to read, but would probably be a chore [...]

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As mentioned I installed Vista on my new desktop, since I have been running it on my laptop with Visual Studio for a month now without any real problems. Go figure, I ran into an issue that has been bugging me for the past couple days.
The symptoms are as follows:

Every time I start VS, [...]

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Just a little follow-up regarding my issue with Visual Studio 2005 and Vista - I was able to make the problem go away by installing a hotfix for KB912019.

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I knew I was taking a slight risk installing Vista on my laptop, where I do quite a bit of my coding.  I’m having a big problem with the Chef solution in Vista - it compiles and runs just fine but in the Visual Studio IDE I cannot open the WinForm Designer for anything but [...]

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As a continuation of my last post, I thought some of you .net developers may be interested in hearing about some of the issues I ran into when strong naming.
Admittedly, this is my first real attempt at using strong naming as it’s intended and therefore I just wasn’t aware of a few things when I [...]

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Several hours today were spent advancing my automated build process for Chef. I’ve had CruiseControl.NET building the software for months now but I’ve had a gaping hole in the processes that has been staring at me since I started it.
What is this hole you ask? Version numbering.
Why is versioning so hard in this [...]

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