Comments for Ryan's Tech Blog http://ryepup.unwashedmeme.com/blog mostly tech, mostly rants Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:36:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 Comment on brief list of things that make working in C# frustrating by Ann Onymouse http://ryepup.unwashedmeme.com/blog/2008/02/13/brief-list-of-things-that-make-working-in-c-frustrating/#comment-12019 Ann Onymouse Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:55:51 +0000 http://ryepup.unwashedmeme.com/blog/2008/02/13/brief-list-of-things-that-make-working-in-c-frustrating/#comment-12019 Most of this pertains to ASP only. Not C#. ASP is a huge piece of crap, but should you really let C# take blame for this? I find myself adding IPublicViewState to every ASP project I've ever done. Why oh why didn't ASP think of this? Most of this pertains to ASP only. Not C#. ASP is a huge piece of crap, but should you really let C# take blame for this?

I find myself adding IPublicViewState to every ASP project I’ve ever done. Why oh why didn’t ASP think of this?

]]> Comment on Codeplex wastes six months reinventing wheels by Toby http://ryepup.unwashedmeme.com/blog/2007/03/27/codeplex-wastes-six-months-reinventing-wheels/#comment-12018 Toby Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:03:09 +0000 http://ryepup.unwashedmeme.com/blog/2007/03/27/codeplex-wastes-six-months-reinventing-wheels/#comment-12018 @ Eddie Garcia, Svn 1.5 brings mature branch/merge tracking. Not bad for $0.00, eh. Plus there are a lot of things Svn does *better* then Perforce, etc. @ Eric B, I hope other commenters have persuaded you that there was actually quite a bit technically wrong with CVS. Certainly Svn is the "compelling replacement" and one would never feel comfortable with CVS again after adopting it. @ all the astroturfers: Bwahahaha.... @ Eddie Garcia, Svn 1.5 brings mature branch/merge tracking. Not bad for $0.00, eh. Plus there are a lot of things Svn does *better* then Perforce, etc.

@ Eric B, I hope other commenters have persuaded you that there was actually quite a bit technically wrong with CVS. Certainly Svn is the “compelling replacement” and one would never feel comfortable with CVS again after adopting it.

@ all the astroturfers: Bwahahaha….

]]> Comment on Codeplex wastes six months reinventing wheels by Martin Zugec http://ryepup.unwashedmeme.com/blog/2007/03/27/codeplex-wastes-six-months-reinventing-wheels/#comment-12016 Martin Zugec Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:22:50 +0000 http://ryepup.unwashedmeme.com/blog/2007/03/27/codeplex-wastes-six-months-reinventing-wheels/#comment-12016 100% agree - I was surprised when I tried to contact Microsoft regarding TFS (I was curious about advantages), we were premium customer. They send "TFS specialist" - when I asked him how could TFS compare to our current setup with subversion (and some custom components), he asked "Subversion what?". That was very disappointing. Not to mention fact that we were engineers, not developers (and used SVN for scripts or some packages), so he should be much better informed than us :( Martin 100% agree - I was surprised when I tried to contact Microsoft regarding TFS (I was curious about advantages), we were premium customer.

They send “TFS specialist” - when I asked him how could TFS compare to our current setup with subversion (and some custom components), he asked “Subversion what?”.

That was very disappointing. Not to mention fact that we were engineers, not developers (and used SVN for scripts or some packages), so he should be much better informed than us :(

Martin

]]> Comment on Codeplex wastes six months reinventing wheels by matt mc http://ryepup.unwashedmeme.com/blog/2007/03/27/codeplex-wastes-six-months-reinventing-wheels/#comment-12013 matt mc Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:19:03 +0000 http://ryepup.unwashedmeme.com/blog/2007/03/27/codeplex-wastes-six-months-reinventing-wheels/#comment-12013 The comments here are pretty funny. I am just glad everyone is finally using version control. With Visual Source Safe it was pretty ridiculous- in many cases you were safer not using it. When we tried to use TFS (in late 2006) for the version control features we had to drop it in favor of Subversion because it was lacking a command line client. This meant that in order to check out the build I needed a GUI client installed (and licensed) on the server. Needless to say, this makes a lot of build and deployment automation tasks more difficult. I am glad to see that has been addressed, to the extent that it has. TFS was also a lot of work to manage in terms of permissions and licensing- we wanted to able hit source control from anywhere- even RedHat and Solaris servers, log in, and go. I thought I was going to like the task integration part, but it had way too many features. We were able to get started with svn and trac in 4 hours after a couple of weeks of messing around with TFS. I suppose MS is working on a distributed version control system next- or are they going to wait until git has been around for five years to see if it catches on? The comments here are pretty funny. I am just glad everyone is finally using version control. With Visual Source Safe it was pretty ridiculous- in many cases you were safer not using it.

When we tried to use TFS (in late 2006) for the version control features we had to drop it in favor of Subversion because it was lacking a command line client. This meant that in order to check out the build I needed a GUI client installed (and licensed) on the server. Needless to say, this makes a lot of build and deployment automation tasks more difficult. I am glad to see that has been addressed, to the extent that it has.

TFS was also a lot of work to manage in terms of permissions and licensing- we wanted to able hit source control from anywhere- even RedHat and Solaris servers, log in, and go. I thought I was going to like the task integration part, but it had way too many features. We were able to get started with svn and trac in 4 hours after a couple of weeks of messing around with TFS.

I suppose MS is working on a distributed version control system next- or are they going to wait until git has been around for five years to see if it catches on?

]]> Comment on Codeplex wastes six months reinventing wheels by Sarath C http://ryepup.unwashedmeme.com/blog/2007/03/27/codeplex-wastes-six-months-reinventing-wheels/#comment-12012 Sarath C Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:18:38 +0000 http://ryepup.unwashedmeme.com/blog/2007/03/27/codeplex-wastes-six-months-reinventing-wheels/#comment-12012 Microsoft is capable of doing things. they've best resources and products. When you're playing with web a google like approach would be better I think Microsoft is capable of doing things. they’ve best resources and products. When you’re playing with web a google like approach would be better I think

]]> Comment on Codeplex wastes six months reinventing wheels by Bill Barry http://ryepup.unwashedmeme.com/blog/2007/03/27/codeplex-wastes-six-months-reinventing-wheels/#comment-12010 Bill Barry Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:14:54 +0000 http://ryepup.unwashedmeme.com/blog/2007/03/27/codeplex-wastes-six-months-reinventing-wheels/#comment-12010 reply posted here: http://16randombytes.blogspot.com/2008/07/reinventing-wheel.html reply posted here: http://16randombytes.blogspot.com/2008/07/reinventing-wheel.html

]]> Comment on Restart a windows service remotely by Shubhashish http://ryepup.unwashedmeme.com/blog/2007/01/04/restart-a-windows-service-remotely/#comment-11985 Shubhashish Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:56:12 +0000 http://ryepup.unwashedmeme.com/blog/2007/01/04/restart-a-windows-service-remotely/#comment-11985 Indeed a helpfull note to follow, but the solution you are talking about, I doubt whether it will work in Windows 2000 /VISTA , since both of them lacking the sc.exe Indeed a helpfull note to follow, but the solution you are talking about, I doubt whether it will work in Windows 2000 /VISTA , since both of them lacking the sc.exe

]]> Comment on Migrate PuTTY saved sessions by Shan Shanmuganathan http://ryepup.unwashedmeme.com/blog/2007/02/22/migrate-putty-saved-sessions/#comment-11968 Shan Shanmuganathan Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:50:14 +0000 http://ryepup.unwashedmeme.com/blog/2007/02/22/migrate-putty-saved-sessions/#comment-11968 Thank you. Made my life easier. Thank you. Made my life easier.

]]> Comment on “manual or distributed transaction mode”, ruby, rails, mssql, ado by joby Sebastian http://ryepup.unwashedmeme.com/blog/2007/11/26/manual-or-distributed-transaction-mode-ruby-rails-mssql-ado/#comment-11921 joby Sebastian Sat, 21 Jun 2008 13:37:14 +0000 http://ryepup.unwashedmeme.com/blog/2007/11/26/manual-or-distributed-transaction-mode-ruby-rails-mssql-ado/#comment-11921 This is a very good fix when we are doing more query update in one migration This is a very good fix when we are doing more query update in one migration

]]> Comment on Migrate PuTTY saved sessions by Ken Woodward http://ryepup.unwashedmeme.com/blog/2007/02/22/migrate-putty-saved-sessions/#comment-11532 Ken Woodward Sat, 24 May 2008 17:45:08 +0000 http://ryepup.unwashedmeme.com/blog/2007/02/22/migrate-putty-saved-sessions/#comment-11532 Thanks Ryan. That was very helpful! Thanks Ryan.
That was very helpful!

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