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Use BeyondCompare as default Diff in Visual Studio with Team Foundation Server

http://www.scootersoftware.com/support.php?c=kb_vcs.php

1. In Visual Studio Choose Options from the Tools menu.
2. Expand Source Control in the treeview.
3. Click Visual Studio Team Foundation Server in the treeview.
4. Click the Configure User Tools button.
5. Click the Add button.
6. Enter “.*” [...]

ASP.NET links

If you suddenly need to learn ASP.NET / C#…

ASP.NET for PHP Developers

ASP.NET for PHP Developers Part 2

ASP.NET from Scratch Lesson 1

ASP.NET from Scratch Lesson 2

ASP.NET from Scratch Lesson 3

MediaWiki Radius Authentication Extension – RadiusAuthPlugin

Here is an extension / plugin for mediawiki to authenticate against a Radius server. I couldn’t find one anywhere else, which is surprising. I can’t believe I am the first person to want to do this. Anyway, this is just bare bones, but it works for an internal mediawiki setup.

First, get Pure [...]

How to open files from cygwin into Visual Studio

Had the desire to open files from the command line (a cygwin terminal, mintty, to be specific) into my existing session of Visual Studio 2008. Here is what you can do.

Adjust paths as necessary. Put this in your bash profile:

export PATH=$PATH:/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files\ $x86$/Microsoft\ Visual\ Studio\ 9.0/Common7/IDE/
alias devedit="devenv \$1 /edit"

Now, this gives you two [...]

How to open a window from terminal in cygwin on vista

So I got a new Dell through work with Vista installed. Naturally one of the first things I did was install cygwin so I can use mintty. This gives me a decent terminal on widnows. If you don’t know what those are, I encourage you to give them a shot.

Anyway, having used [...]

My .vimrc

" vim 7.x specific

" set to be more vim like
set nocompatible

" check paths for .ros alternatives
set includeexpr=substitute(v:fname,’$',’.ros’,'g’)

" hide buffers when they go away with :bd
set hidden

" set tabs
set expandtab
set tabstop=4
set shiftwidth=4
set autoindent
set cindent

" window management
set number
set ruler
set showmode
set laststatus=2
set history=500
set cursorline
au WinLeave * set nocursorline
au WinEnter * set cursorline

" search
set incsearch
set hlsearch
set smartcase

" colors
syntax on
colorscheme [...]

My .screenrc

This .screenrc has a bunch of commented out lines that I don’t use, but I know if I delete them, I will need them for some reason and wish I didn’t.

# Use CTRL-<space> as the escape sequence instead of CTRL-A
# this seems to only work on certain machines
escape ‘^@^@’

# Use ` as the escape sequence [...]

My .ssh/config

Sorry, this has to be edited for security reasons…

Host [hostname1] [hostname2] [hostname3]
ProxyCommand ssh [hostname] /usr/local/bin/nc -w 5 %h %p

Host [hostname1] [hostname2] [hostname3]
Compression yes

# defaults
Host *
Protocol 2,1
PubkeyAuthentication yes
RSAAuthentication yes
PasswordAuthentication yes
[...]

My .bash_profile

.bash_profile, .profile, .bash_rc …

if [ "$PS1" != "" ]; then
PROMPT_COMMAND=’echo -ne "\033]0;${HOSTNAME}: ${PWD}\007"’
PS1="[\e[1;33m\u::${HOSTNAME} \t\[\e[1;35m\e[0m\]]$ "
fi

alias ls=’ls -G’
alias ll=’ls -l’
alias la=’ll -a’
alias env=’env | sort’
alias ..=’cd ..’
alias :e=vim
alias grepr=’grep -rHn’
# finds and removes the ._ files that textmate creates
alias findmatefiles=’find . -name ._*’
alias rmmatefiles=’find . -name ._* -exec [...]

Example of an offline web app

The app: http://psyjinx.com/iphone/

This is a very simple webapp. It displays images that iPhones and iPod Touches can use as wallpaper. There isn’t really a need for offline use with the iPhone, but the iPod Touch could benefit from it. It took me about 10 minutes to learn what to do, and implement [...]

james young