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2 years ago
in “I am heavy weapons guy” - Bring on Team Fortress 2! on Development on a shoestring
Oh man. I spent way too many hours with the original Team Fortress (the extension pack of Quake World) when I was studying at uni. Then quite a while ago (7+ years?) there were rumours of Team Fortress 2 with a demo video of one guy feeding the machine gun, but that was never released.
Great to see a come back. Hopefully this time it is for real.
Great to see a come back. Hopefully this time it is for real.
2 years ago
in Agile and SQL links on Development on a shoestring
It is much easier to rename a column when all you got is one production site, a testing site and a few development sites. In our case, changing a column would require
- Change a column in the table definition file
- Write an upgrade script and test it against trunk + 2 branches
- Rebuild the 2 release branches
- Test the new builds
- Get permission from clients who need the change about upgrading
- Push out the change across 60+ servers in the evenings
- Send the patches + upgrade instructions to clients who are not hosted with us
- Wait for the support calls in the morning when clients found some incompatibility :)
Around a week of work, and we are already trying to be as agile as possible :(
Moreover, I found when the development only involves micro-iterations, people are less likely to work on re-factoring and re-architecturing the code, which are usually necessary when you are looking at 5+ years into the project...
- Change a column in the table definition file
- Write an upgrade script and test it against trunk + 2 branches
- Rebuild the 2 release branches
- Test the new builds
- Get permission from clients who need the change about upgrading
- Push out the change across 60+ servers in the evenings
- Send the patches + upgrade instructions to clients who are not hosted with us
- Wait for the support calls in the morning when clients found some incompatibility :)
Around a week of work, and we are already trying to be as agile as possible :(
Moreover, I found when the development only involves micro-iterations, people are less likely to work on re-factoring and re-architecturing the code, which are usually necessary when you are looking at 5+ years into the project...
3 years ago
in drive.com.au blog on Development on a shoestring
Oh. Was I the first one who subscribed Drive.com.au blog on Bloglines? :)
Well done Glenn! We need a good Australian specific auto blog...
Well done Glenn! We need a good Australian specific auto blog...
4 years ago
in What is this building? on Development on a shoestring
That will be Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.
It's nice to have a Hong Kong wife who identified that for me :) However, she cannot seem to find where she used to live from the crowded city.
It's nice to have a Hong Kong wife who identified that for me :) However, she cannot seem to find where she used to live from the crowded city.
4 years ago
in Internet Explorer Memory usage on Development on a shoestring
Sometimes having a choice to have the new window running in the same or different processes is actually a "good thing".
If you click on the Internet Explorer icon, it actually launches a new instance. Moreover, each IE instance manages its own pool of session cookies, which is *extremely* useful in web application development, where you might want to log into the same app as different users as the same time to test interactivity. You can't easily do that with Firefox, as all windows share the same cookie jar. But with IE, as it gives you this option to create two windows as different instances with differnet cookie jar, that creates a whole lot of possibilities.
And of course, if you want to preserve memory, Ctrl-N will do.
If you click on the Internet Explorer icon, it actually launches a new instance. Moreover, each IE instance manages its own pool of session cookies, which is *extremely* useful in web application development, where you might want to log into the same app as different users as the same time to test interactivity. You can't easily do that with Firefox, as all windows share the same cookie jar. But with IE, as it gives you this option to create two windows as different instances with differnet cookie jar, that creates a whole lot of possibilities.
And of course, if you want to preserve memory, Ctrl-N will do.
