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I saw this on Dot Net Kicks today and just had to comment on it. It is a great article about using Subversion and branching . Branching code for features It is almost a given in the current development world that you will be implementing new features while performing maintenance at the same time. That...

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I read some blogs from time to time. Not a lot, but usually I search them when I am looking for a fellow programmer who feels my pain. I was searching tonight and came across a great blog post by Mark Heath that really hit the nail on the head of what I have been living this week. Refactoring to the...

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I was very happy to discover that our database product was mentioned in the list from Jon Davis of things Microsoft should be ashamed of (that they didn't do it first). I happen to agree with Jon on a number of issues, but I also take things a few steps further when it comes to managed code. See the...

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Moving? Yep, we are moving into our new office officially this week. We got the keys on Friday and spent all weekend pulling cables, installing blinds, tearing down and putting back up racks, etc. Phew, my back hurts. Tomorrow the heavy lifting will come in, and yes we hired movers to do that part. I...

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I have mentioned to a few people that we are working on optimizations and performance internal to the engine. I wanted to take a brief blog post to explain an optimization concept that is subtle, but makes a big difference in runtime performance. Hashtables Internally quite a few structures are stored...

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Build #57, 4/17/2008 NOTES Promotion from development to stable. This version has been tested by quite a few users and all reported issues have been resolved. There are some small performance improvements in this build, and we continue to work on optimization of the engine. When we promote from development...

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Build #56, 4/13/2008 NOTES This build is being built with a number of new tools on our end. It should not impact anything in the product (we hope), but I wanted to give everyone a heads up. Visual Studio Integration SDK (VSIP) - Now using the latest build from last year that includes some new tools and...

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Microsoft has released a new PowerCommands V1.1 tool for VS 2008. This tool integrates within the IDE and gives you some very cool tools. One of my favorites is the ability to right click a file and say "Open Containing Folder" - immediate access to an Explorer window to that file. Makes it...

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Subscription Renewals are upon us! We started the subscription model exactly one year ago with VistaDB 3.0. Since that time we have released 22 builds for users! Some of them have been major, some minor. Lots of bug tweaks, and new features. The subscription renewal price has been set at $99 for a one...

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Spam stinks Spam drives me nuts. It should be obvious since I wrote a spam filter to scratch my personal itch against spammers, but they are getting more and more agressive. Apparently they are now targeting FogBugz (the bug tracking system we use) now as well. Why Fogbugz? The obvious question is why...

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