Archive for November, 2003
Right now I’m experimenting with new website layouts.
So far, this is what I have come up with.
With any luck I’ll have it all published before christmas.
It works great in mozilla, netscape, firebird and opera. It works for the most part in internet exploder 5.x but it isn’t pixel perfect. Something to do with the way IE messed up the implementation of CSS, or maybe my style sheet sucks.
I haven’t tried it in all of the other crazy browsers like Konqueror and Safari, I’m interested to see what it looks like in those browsers.
UPDATE: Scratch all this stuff, I ported over to Wordpress and now all of my previous browser problems appear to have vanished.
I guarantee you, you’ve never seen Barbie like this.
warning: Not for the faint of heart
I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait to go and see Russell Crowe’s new movie,
Master and Commander.
I really like this picture, it’s been making its rounds on the internet for about a month now.
These guys have a link to it, Steve has a link to it, it seems that everyone has it.
All they need now is a halo picture of the guy really running the show.
A few months ago, I did a quick review of Sourcegear Vault.
Since then, we’ve upgraded from version 1.0.3 to 1.2.1. The client tools are marginally better, although the GUI performance has greatly improved. You still can’t run DIFF on arbitrary files.
The thing that really blows is that the server database schema conversion from the old version to the new version screwed up our data. The actual source code came over intact, but all of the file sharing was lost. I called them up, and they gave me a patch that was supposed to restore all of the shared links. It did about 20% of them. We have hundreds and hundreds of linked files, which I had to manually re-share by hand (by manually I mean I wrote scripts). I wasn’t too happy with that, it took me a lot of time to get it done, time better spent doing other things.
In general, I think most of our developers don’t like it, because on slower computers it is a complete pig (by slow I mean a dual 800 with 256 megs of ram)
Word to the wise: If you get Vault, be REALLY careful when you upgrade versions. Do lots of backups, and lots of finger crossing. And if you’re not working on a ridiculously big system like we are, stay on sourcesafe, and save yourself the headache.
If the captain of the Starship Enterprise can’t hold his marriage together, what hope is there for the rest of us?
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