Personal

Reverie

When I was nine, I got my first computer. It was a Texas Instruments TI 99/4A. It was awesome in it’s off white glory! A friend of mine had one and also had a number of game cartridges as well, he let me borrow some, that one could create games for it seemed amazing to […]

Programming

Tortoise SVN and BeyondCompare

Since I always forget the settings, here they are 🙂 From: http://www.scootersoftware.com/download.php?c=kb_vcs [May 25th 2010] TORTOISESVN Diff Select Settings from Explorer's TortoiseSVN submenu. Switch to the Diff Viewer tab. Change the radio buttons from TortoiseMerge to External. In the path edits, enter: “C:Program FilesBeyond Compare 3BComp.exe” %base %mine /title1=%bname /title2=%yname /leftreadonly To use Beyond Compare […]

Programming

More on Ektron CMS400.NET

So far, most of the difficulties in customizing a Ektron is that a lot of the abstractions in a standard web application are already encapsulated by the system. For example, containers and controls such as images, content blocks, pages, forms, the CMS already has a pretty rich set of data attached to these. The problem […]

Programming

A few thoughts on Ektron CMS400.NET

So I recently started a new job at a decently sized software consultancy (excellent news and a great opportunity to be sure!) and my first project is at a large hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio. They currently are using Ektron CMS400.NET 7.x host the site in question. While I have heard of Ektron in the past, […]

Gaming

Free Release of MechWarrior 4 via MTX

So as I was minding my own business surfing the interwebz, I notice this little excellent bit of gaming interest if you’re a fan of MechWarrior Apparently, Microsoft has released, for free, MechWarrior 4, here is the press release (at least as of the time of it’s posting) http://mektek.net/projects/mw4/index.html [Click on image to enlarge] The […]