I just signed up for PayPal’s new Micropayments. PayPal seems to be rolling this out slowly as you have to sign-up and then you will be notified in 2 days if you are accepted or not. In theory it should save us a couple pennies every-time we sell a copy of Mini-Compressor. The fixed cost per transaction is reduced from $0.30 to $0.05 but the percentage cost goes up from 2.9% to 5%.
[Read More]Extra Memory for my Virtual Machine
All my development work is done on virtual machines (VM), Virtual Box to be exact. In the past I’ve only needed one VM open at a time and only one version Visual Studio, or other IDE, running in the VM. On my Core 2 Duo with 4 GB of RAM this was fine with the VM being allocated 1.5 GB of RAM. Sometimes it would run slow but only for short durations and I could live with it.
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A realistic video about software development:
Exclusive How the Gold Master Was Delayed: Part I
If, like me, you typically work on business software for a single large client, aside from (shameless plug) Mini-Compressor, then make the following substitutions:
Publisher –> Large Company Buying Custom Software
Gold Master –> Release Date Promised to Customer Picked by Throwing Darts at a Calendar
Forum Troll –> Employee at Customer Company Trying to Fail Project for his/her Political Reasons
Upgrading Mini-Compressor to .NET 4.0 Notes
My notes on upgrading Mini-Compressor from .NET 3.5 to .NET 4.0 (Visual Studio 2008 to 2010) and also upgrading NUnit and NAnt.
Run the automated VS 2010 upgrade process. Appears that there are no error but appearances can be deceiving.
Try a compile and get errors about not being about to find NUnit. This makes sense as I upgraded NUnit on the build machine and the path had changed. One day I should just reference the dll via a lib folder. Update the NUnit reference and all the errors go away but…
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New Tools Require New Standards
“An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it.” - Robert Brault
As developers we all have standards, even if they aren’t that well defined. Of course I’m talking about technology standards but feel free to insert your social awareness and/or hygiene standard joke here. Standards can range from the usual coding standards to the names you give your servers (e.g Lord of the Rings Characters) and everything in-between.
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