Monthly Archives: October 2009

subsonic won’t update my bit field?

I recently ran into a really strange problem while using SubSonic.  I had a bit column in my database that was set to not allow nulls and had a default value of false.  Pretty standard stuff in the world of database design I guess. When it came time to start saving my entities to the database, [...]
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xcopy won’t copy .css files

I use xcopy as part of a build script to copy a bunch of files and directories from a subversion checkout directory to another directory so that I can zip them and upload them to a server. I have an exclude file that I use to tell xcopy to ignore files like the obj directory and [...]
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If your gonna fuck up, do it early

I’ve worked in the online industry for the last 12 years or so, one thing above all else I’ve learned in my time in this industry You are going to fuck it up Now I use the phrase “fuck it up” in place of fail for effect, for impact, ya know if this was a power point [...]
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Some changes

I think i’m going to take down all the personal posts from my blog here and move them over to posterous. Posterous seems to fit the life blogging model much better than wordpress.  You can send in posts via email and get stuff up quickly with little friction. I’m going to keep all my work [...]
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Building new features makes sense!

But spending an insane amount of time upfront without ever having tested or planning said feature doesn’t make sense at all. If you are going to spend time working on new features, don’t spend time on planning what you think might work. Build something quickly and let your users decide on how it should work. You [...]
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