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Can not copy... Visual Studio error.

Tue, 2010-06-15 13:08 — jlopez

A common problem with Visual Studio is that it leaves locks in place inappropriately after debugging. A quick search for 

visual studio 2010 "unable to copy file"

will show how prevalent the problem is.

This workaround was suggested for building add-ins, but it works for WinForm applications as well: File Lock Issue in Visual Studio When Building a Project.

The basic idea is to add a few lines to your Pre-build event:

TeraCopy for Windows 7, 64 bit.

Tue, 2010-06-15 10:21 — jlopez

I was copying a large software project from one directory to another in preparation for upgrading the project files to Visual Studio 2010 format. The copy dragged on and on moving at just over 1MB/s with 1GB to copy. It completed in about 20-25 minutes, which was absurd.

Doing some Googling I found plenty of references to slow copy problems (something I had also encountered in Vista), but I also saw a reference to TeraCopy as a solution.

Games for Windows Live

Mon, 2010-05-17 08:49 — jlopez

Shamus at 20 Sided put together a post that completely describes my experience with Games for Windows Live.

How is it that the largest software company in the world, with a huge console gaming arm, can't write PC software for game management?

CSS Techniques

Fri, 2010-05-14 14:16 — jlopez

This is simply one of the better resources for CSS that I have stumbled across: CSS Techniques I Wish I Knew When I Started Designing Websites. I really don't have anything to add, except to say that I really hope somthing like Sass becomes a standard. CSS is great, but repeating oneself is not.

Cleaning out the backlog.

Fri, 2010-05-14 14:08 — jlopez

I have a few items I have had pending, but never got around to a full write up on. Today's "needs to leave the list" entry is by Seth Godin. Seth Godin is an interesting pundit who talks a lot about marketing and professional development. He has written quite a few business books that I haven't read and quite a many blog posts which I have. I wholeheartedly recommend his blog if you are interested in business marketing topics.

R Statistical Software

Wed, 2010-03-31 11:56 — jlopez

Slashdot has an interesting (and old) item about R which features a New York Times article where various analysis sing the praises of the R statistical software package.

Take Security Seriously

Wed, 2010-03-31 11:17 — jlopez

This is an older link, but one I feel is worth sharing as the lesson is provides about security is a good one.

http://www.communities.hp.com/securitysoftware/blogs/rafal/archive/2010/02/25/a-big-case-of-oops.aspx

Remotely enable remote desktop.

Wed, 2010-03-31 10:02 — jlopez

Remote desktop is a great tool for administration of machines when you can't by physically present. One thing that comes from time to time is the need to connect to a machine that doesn't have remote desktop enabled. The steps are easy to enable remote desktop as long as you have administrative access to the machine.

First, launch regedit and select "File->Connect to remote computer". In the remote computer's registry tree, go to "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server" and edit fDenyTSConnection from 1 to 0.

Link Dump

Tue, 2010-03-23 10:05 — jlopez

I have been accumulating interesting links as "starred items" in Google reader. The problem is that over 100 such items is beyond the effective range of that system, slowing access. So here is a link dump of things I find interesting but haven't yet been able to fully pursue.

The Predictioneer's Game: using game theory to predict outcomes.

Immersive Collaboration: Taking virtual worlds further in data presentation.

Data Analytics Maturation: Defining maturing levels of analytics in an organization.

Evoke: Augmented reality game about social problem solving.

20 most popular open source software packages: As the title states. I have used 13 of the 20 personally, so this list seems a good launching point for exploring open source.

5 best VPN tools: Personally I use OpenVPN, despite not being a traditional VPN solution. Easy to set up and reliable.

30 web applications: There are a lot of useful apps that require zero installation. The question: how critical of data to trust to such systems?

The Universe: Help in understanding our relation to the larger cosmos. (Here is a related Star Size Video.

Design decisions that can ruin your day.

Fri, 2010-02-12 08:19 — jlopez

I ran into three really bad design decisions this morning while trying to work with a virtual machine, the sum total of which consumed hours of my day for what could have been a fifteen minute project. 70-persistent-net.rules in Ubuntu, the networking command line in Sun's VirtualBox and Sun VirtualBox's hard drive "manager".

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