Exporting an SVN repository to an Hg repo is dead easy with the latest version of TortoiseHg: [Read More]

I had a freaking nightmare deploying an MVC3 app today. Seems simple. Database was up and running. The code was deployed and had been tested on our local systems. I deployed via our amazing SVN deployment process, and published on the live server. Permissions applied automatically, all the files appeared... [Read More]

We noticed in our error logs that we were getting quite a few of these good old errors: [Read More]

Symbolic links in Windows: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753194(WS.10).aspx – this was weird. I was moaning to Rohland about how I missed have symlinks from Linux, but I’d never bothered to research the alternative in Windows, assuming that Shortcuts were all we have. It turns out, you CAN make sybmbolic links in Windows.

I added some WCF services to an existing project today, and I found I had completely forgotten the easy way of setting this stuff up. So, here goes. Note that you will usually split your host and consumer between separate projects – this is just an outline of the basics... [Read More]