Archive for February, 2006

BLOCKBUSTER Acquisition!

25Feb06

You’re thinking I’ve bought something big. Newp. I got a Blockbuster subscription! This means I can finally watch the first 4 seasons of ‘Ally McBeal’! And all of ‘North & South’! And every movie from the past 20 years that I’ve thought about renting at some point…oh boy, maybe this wasn’t such a good idea. Oh, [...]

Why to choose Subversion over Clearcase

15Feb06

I’ve had opportunity to become quite familiar with Rational Clearcase in the last year-and-a-bit, including advanced features such as the use of metadata. And having witnessed it first-hand, I have to say that Clearcase’s power is unmatched: it’s an extremely well-considered system that will let you do almost anything you want with it. Still, power is [...]

VS.NET 2003 Find/Replace

15Feb06

(This has been sitting in my Performancing extension for several weeks, so since I haven’t updated recently, might as well publish it.)I’ve just discovered that the regular expressions available through Find/Replace in VS.NET 2003 are not standard .NET/POSIX regular expressions. It seems curlies ({, }) specify tagged expressions. Unfortunately, this means one of the most [...]