Category Archives: productivity

No, not through ViEmu or VsVim… I mean, actual honest to goodness Vim. I’ve been working with Ruby for a not quite a year now (though, not much recently) and in that time I’ve tried a lot of editors and … Continue reading →

Here’s another entry in my how-i-saved-a-few-hundred-keystrokes blog posts on using Vim / ViEmu with Visual Studio.   The Code That Needs To Change I’ve got a data access method that is mapping around 50 fields into an object from a … Continue reading →

Branching and merging are never free operations. Even if you are using a source control system that makes the mechanical process of branching and merging negligible, there are other costs that need to be accounted for than just the button … Continue reading →

Don’t confuse activity – even when it has a visible, measurable effect – with productivity. Without a clear picture of where we are going and why, our best efforts at improvement (though they may be ‘continuous’ efforts) are likely to … Continue reading →

Here’s one of the reasons I like Rake and my custom Rake tasks that I’m building into Albacore, so much. To generate some assembly information such as version, company name, copyright, etc., you need to do this with nant: 1: … Continue reading →