November 2006 Entries
So to solve my Vista installation problem I got hold of Disk Director from Acronis. I've been using their True Image product for a while and have loved it; it's invaluable for making backups of entire partitions and is especially suited to people like myself who reinstall their laptop regularly. Disk Director is no less useful and allowed me to resize my partitions without having to reinstall anything. It's one of the nicest programs I've used, with a simple wizard that walks you through which partition you want to expan and where the new space will come from. What I...
Yesterday I spent all day in a meeting. It's something my new client does once a month, going ove all aspects of its business. Generally I'm against meetings, even short ones and even though this dragged on a bit, it was useful. Working on the web side of the application I'm often unaware of the problem that other divisions have; hardware issues, mobile application problems, etc. The most instructive part of the entire day was right at the end, when we showed the web application to all of the staff. Some had seen bits before, some hadn't seen it at...
Todays old man whinge is about disk space and why we never have enough. Even though I've just bought 2.5Tb of discs recently, none of these are for my laptop, upon which I was planning to upgrade XP to Vista. Except I can't, of course, as the upgrade needs 7Gb free on the upgrade partition and I only have 2.5Gb free. I have 10GB free on another partition and a 15Gb empty partition, but neither of these can be used as temporary space for the upgrade. Why not? It's not just Vista that this applies to, but nearly all installations,...
I'm a relatively recent convert to Subversion, and we're using it for the project I'm currently on. One problem I have with it, which is more a problem with me, is that check-in only checks in files it knows about. Fairly sensible really, but it means when you've added new files to the project you have to explicitly add them to Subversion before the checkin. Something I forget to do, a problem when other team members tend to work later than I do. Phil has stated the law. The count is rising.
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What a great week away, in Las Vegas for the ASP.NET Connections conference and boy, is it getting big (the conference, not Vegas). There were nearly 5,000 people there this year, split across all of the different tracks (Office, Exchange, SQL, etc), giving it almost the same feeling as TechEd. The expo hall was huge and it was great to meet up with friends again, one of whom (Hi Peter) I hadn't seen in years. Code and samples for my three talks are available here.
An update to the issue I described here where you have QueryStrings that contan spaces. Danny has documented a workaround.