Last week, I installed Visual Studio 2012, to play around with new features. We’re probably not ready to move our production code to VS2012 yet, but I just wanted to see what’s new. I should probably have installed it in a virtual machine, but hey, this is a well tested, production ready Microsoft product …… Continue reading Just Installing VS2012 Can Break VS2010 Websites
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Setting up a Mercurial Repository under IIS
Setting up Mercurial to serve repositories using IIS has been on my to do list for months. I had a quick go at it late last year, but was thwarted by confusing solutions which quite frankly, just didn’t work for me. Many walkthroughs mention using a file named hgwebdir.cgi, but as of Mercurial 1.6, this… Continue reading Setting up a Mercurial Repository under IIS
Visual Studio 2010 Solution Won’t Open From Explorer
This one has caused me some problems recently. I have a Visual Studio solution I downloaded, yet double clicking on the solution file in Windows Explorer does not open the solution. I know it’s a Visual Studio 2010 solution, because the file starts with: Microsoft Visual Studio Solution File, Format Version 11.00 # Visual Studio… Continue reading Visual Studio 2010 Solution Won’t Open From Explorer
FB Hacker Cup 2011 Round 2 – I’m Out
A couple of weeks ago, I blogged about my participation in the inaugural Facebook Hacker Cup. Well, I didn’t get any further, and exited spectacularly in round 2. To say it was tricky is an understatement. The level of difficulty was a huge leap up from the previous round. Of the 1,673 programmers eligible to… Continue reading FB Hacker Cup 2011 Round 2 – I’m Out
Facebook Hacker Cup 2011
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been taking part in the inaugural Facebook Hacker Cup, a programming competition ran along almost identical lines to Google’s well established CodeJam. The format of the competition is quite simple. To start with, there was a qualification round lasting 72 hours in which 3 problems were posted. Competitors… Continue reading Facebook Hacker Cup 2011