I’ve been using Mercurial, a distributed version-control system, for a while now at home. Even without using a DVCS’s distributed nature, they make a great choice for a personal version control system: They all share the common trait that they keep all version history on the local system; most centralized VCSes keep only the latest [...]
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One of my requirements when researching places to live when I moved to Boston was nearby public transit. If you’ve ever driven in Boston, you know the traffic can be dense and intense and WTF?! THERE ARE 80 CARS BEHIND YOU AND IT’S ILLEGAL TO TURN LEFT THERE DURING RUSH HOUR!! OK, so driving was [...]
Last Tuesday, Microsoft released atypical, out-of-band security updates for vulnerabilities in ATL. Michael Howard discusses them on the Security Development Lifecycle blog. The security update page contains links to patches and upgrades for affected Visual Studio components, going back to Visual Studio .NET 2003. If you’re using Visual Studio 2008 SP1, you’ll be interested in [...]
In January, I got to participate in a first-of-its-kind event. Unfortunately, the event was Microsoft’s first-ever mass layoff. As was wildly reported, Microsoft closed ACES Studio as part of that layoff. As ACES was my home away from home (and, on occasion, more home than my home<g>) for the last two years, I found myself [...]