The doomed

Went visiting the waterheads downstairs to answer version control questions. They wanted email added to a post-commit hook. I recommended subscribing to the RSS feed our installation of Fisheye provides. They didn’t know what RSS was. They’re ostensibly web developers. A little bit of me died on the inside.

Working smarter, not harder

New-to-me Windows DOS commands that are equivalent to bash commands that I always use. Another in a long series. runas [1] Equivalent to sudo, allows one to run commands as a different user assuming one knows the password for that user pushd [2] Maps a network location as a volume popd [3] Drops that mapping…

It has begun

A sign my brain is out to get me: All morning by brain has been singing to me a mash up of Billy Joel’s Big Shot and Run DMC/Aerosmith’s Walk This Way. Mostly it’s the words to Walk This Way as sung by Billy Joel and to Big Shot’s melody. And I hate the musical…