Better compile times in Visual Studio
EDIT: Tried some of these today. Results are in blue.
Where I'm working now, we have a huge Visual Studio solution with hundreds of project files. The problem with this being that compile times are drastically reduced, causing great irritation and generally just hampering production.
Having a look around the web other people are definitely having this problem. Some suggestions are:
- Merge all the projects into one, or at very least merge any projects that can logically be merged. For example, unit test projects could really benefit from being merged.
- Have all projects output their bits to one directory.
- Disable anti-virus (only for the solution directory): Not much of a change. Maybe lost a few seconds build time, though results may vary. Would recommend doing this always just in case your virus checker is slowing things down.
- Combine the project files (this is generally not a great approach because the projects are split up like this so that our concerns are kept seperated).
- Creating new solutions which only contain smaller parts of the code base, and linking them to compiled dlls from the other projects (DLL hell).
- Parallel builds (Tools/Options./Projects and Solutions/Build and Run/Maximum Number of Parallel Project Builds): No noticeable change. The default setting was 4 by the way.
- Stop using TFS (purely unwarranted, but who knows? Thought I'd just throw that in there).
- Disable indexing on your source folders (windows search). No noticeable change. Didn't really expect anything to change here, because windows search has a way of delaying indexing as far as I know.
I'm going to have a look at these items tomorrow during lunch, and will update if I find anything good!
Software Publisher Irritations #19321
I get many emails like this, but this one I actually read.
The email came with this warning:
Product Removal Warning !!!
Here's the email:
Dear Publisher,
Your software titles are already submitted on our website http://www.ddimp.com .You must place our link on your website if you want your software to be published on our website. Our editors regularly inspect publishers? websites to check our back-link code on their websites.
Unfortunately, we could not find required link on your web-site during our routine inspection. If you don't implement our link code during 5 days, we'll be obligated to remove descriptions of your products from our database and discontinue the publication of your products information on our websites.
The examples of the link you may find on the following page of our web-site:
http://www.ddimp.com/system-utilities/submit-utility.asp
NOTE:: if your product listing has already been removed, you should submit your product again using the back-link code provided on following product submission page:
http://www.ddimp.com/system-utilities/submit-utility.asp
Sincerely,
DDIMP Team
www.ddimp.com
So let's get this straight: I must now go add a link to their page, so they can work on their PageRank? They're a software download site?
Funny, because WickedOrange.Com has a higher PageRank and Alexa Rating than them.
Ok well that's the end of my useless whining. Just beware of these scams, and maybe they'll go away eventually.
Cellphone Radar Crap
It isn't really a scam, because they don't actually say it is a cell phone radar, but it doesn't do the shit you would expect it to do.
EDIT: Forgot to mention, the file you download is a stupid little animated GIF!
Is FaceBook quickly becoming MySpace?
If you've used FaceBook for a while then you probably remember when it was very simple, easy to use and uncluttered?
The problem is that now there is a Widget for almost anything!
The reason I won't ever go to MySpace.Com is because I almost certainly know that the first page I hit will have some irritating song that I really don't want to hear, start automatically, almost invading my private ear space. It's a sin punishable by death to set up those autoplay songs.
Ignore, Ignore, Ignore!
I foresee a time where FaceBook will reach this point, although it will be far more elegant than MySpace because of it's clean layout, I have already seen some peoples pages that are near impossible to navigate. Super Wall, Fun Wall, The Wall?
Cool, I'm off to make a FaceBook Widget! Peace!
FeedBurner Nightmare
FeedBurner seems to be having problems. Just a quick test to see if this gets added to my feed...
Better way to break into my car:
Maybe I should do a training course so people stop breaking my car window.
messengerlive.info IS A SCAM!
Don't anyone go to messengerlive.info! It's an advertising scam!
Check this out:
Spam
Lately I have been making it a thing not to delete my spam messages. I'm a bit obsessive compulsive, so I normally remove all spam from Gmail when I check my mail.
Hmm. Could be a cool movie name? Still can't believe there was a movie called 2010 and it was so far from reality that... whatever.
Anyway, that's just under a week of spam!
It appears that mailAddress (at) (gmail dot) [com] sort of "address encrypting" methods don't work to well anymore. The code to defeat such an address would be pretty basic of course. Just look for [at], (at), "at" etc.. and work backwards then forwards.
Money?!
These people must of course be making money. They wouldn't be wasting such precious beer drinking time creating email finder scripts and mass mailing people. Not to mention actually composing the emails. I'm sure they're not selling their souls for free! They even have to work out new methods to spam people, change domains etc. It's quite a job. With all that intelligence I'm sure they could profit by creating a web site with good quality content.
The reason I'm actually mentioning this is because of a conversation I had recently. I think it might have been with my father. We were talking about spam and why it still exists.
Spam exists only because there are people out there that buy into that sort of thing.
This of course branches off into another irritation of mine:
The MSN Messenger Irritation
Why can't I send a .exe file across messenger? Because some people are stupid enough to accept .exe files from strangers and run them!
Ok I'm gonna stop whining and put my beer to good use.
DreamWeaver Templates and Google
Been redesigning the whole WO site layout, and merging the sites together etc.
The problem I faced this morning was quite an irritation. I realised that I didn't update Sitemaps. I also realised that all my navigation was created on the fly by javascript! This would pose a huge threat, because first of all I will lose my google ranking if my pages aren't listed, and secondly the adsense block would only display public service ads! Not good!
The Workaround
Add a <div style="display:none"> href,href,href</div> section into all templates, making sure each page links to each possible page. Then filter out the 404's. I hope this helps someone. I was really pissed off for a minute or two there.
Can't wait for Christmas! Gonna get soo drunk!
peace
Firefux and “display:inline”
I hate it more and more every day.
display:inline!!?!?! doesn't work!!!
Heres someevidence too.
Ahhh. A fix exists! I almost jumped. Seriously.
display:inline; /* THANK GOD FOR IE!!! */
display:-moz-inline-block; /* I HATE FIREFOX!!! */
display:-moz-inline-box; /* I HATE FIREFOX!!! */