Archive for 'Dev Tools'

Python 2.5 OS X installer broke my .bashrc settings.

10 March 2007

The other day I decided to upgrade Python in my mac mini from version 2.3 to the most current release of 2.5. I opted to do this using the OS X install found here. After installing it appeared that it had completely hosed my custom PATH settings in my .bashrc and .bash_login files.
Luckily, […]

My Tools of Choice

1 February 2007

Every seasoned developer has a list of tools that they love to use. This is meant to be a ‘living’ list of my favorite tools. As I find new tools and expand my range I’ll be sure to update this list.

Is this the start of something new?

31 January 2007

Mike Guderloy, a prolific Windows and .net developer, writer, and blogger has started a new blog about his attempts to wean himself from Microsoft Development tools. I find this timely, and a bit more than a coincidence that several developers I know personally and myself have been contemplating the same move.
For me the move […]

ReSharper issues on Windows Vista and VS2005

9 December 2006

For those of you who don’t know what ReSharper is, it is an Add-In for Visual Studio 2005 that vastly improves the poor refactoring support as well adds some useful functionality.
The First Problem:

I recently decided to take the Widows Vista plunge and installed it on a spare drive on one of my development workstations. […]