Introduction We used ActiveRecord migrations at Eleutian for a number of months. Everything was right with the world and we had no major complaints until we started running into a problem with our more complex migration scenarios. Usually, we see two kinds of migrations: Schema - Add/remove/rename columns...

For the longest time I have been running both SlickRun and Launchy on my machine. I kept both as I had not updated my copy of Launchy in a while and I found that slickrun was just much better for launching folders in Explorer. Having had my eyes opened at the last course in Austin, I have now completely...

One idea I've been thinking about lately is that good tools get out of your way. I started thinking about this after reading an article about photography and fancy equipment. A few days later I was upgrading my ReSharper to the latest EAP and started thinking about how the same principal applies...

For the last couple of weeks, I have been integrating Vim and a complementary set of tools into my development toolkit. I am firmly on board with what the pragmatic programmers say: "Learn a good editor, and learn it well!!" I am thoroughly impressed with Vim, Viemu etc. Last week I was recommended...

I got into a series of interesting conversations with the usual suspects , Austin edition , about tools . I wouldn't say we covered what I'm about to outline here in totality; these snippets are only starting to coalesce and firm up in my mind. What's a Tool? It seems to me that a tool can...

In the world of Visual Studio we have solutions and projects. I create lots of projects. At Eleutian we have close to 40 projects in our main solution. Keep in mind, that at any given time I only have a subset those loaded depending on which feature I am working on. Machine , a relatively recent undertaking...

Well you can officially call me a Vim junkie now!! Having spent the last couple of weeks working with it I can definitely say that I would not work at a machine that did not have it. That's right, that is the same claim I made, and still make, about ReSharper . I still trip myself up in ReSharper...

After watching the first screencast that Aaron presented on Vim, I thought I would check it out. The first day was a little uncomfortable, 2 weeks later I am happy to report that I concur with Aaron's statement, which is also what I say to people who were not using ReSharper: "I could not use...

Ever since the nightly builds for ReSharper 4.0 went live, being the REA (Resharper early adopter) that I am, I downloaded it and have been using it on my C# 3.5 projects. I am happy to report that even though it is in the pre EAP phase, it is extremely solid and a joy to work with. The support for the...

I might be a little late on this one, but I just learned a new shortcut that will definitely save me time when I am working in my VM on my mac. I love to use the keyboard. And when I use my natural keyboard it is fairly easy to access context menus (right click) by using the context menu key on the keyboard...