tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99980442011-12-14T18:56:33.008-08:00Experiences in software development and technologyRyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16638784375499554665noreply@blogger.comBlogger51100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9998044.post-16516910987229189042008-02-15T15:08:00.001-08:002008-02-22T11:09:56.340-08:00

I did quite a bit of looking around for a way to backup my documents and music and other files on my new Vista PC. I have a second disk in my system and wanted to mirror my important data to that second disk. There's a backup utility built in to Vista, but it doesn't have a way to exclude directories (!) and I have some directories with large, static data that I already have backed up

Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16638784375499554665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9998044.post-1108396753564593082005-02-14T07:53:00.000-08:002005-02-14T07:59:13.566-08:00

I just tried Inno Setup, a free install-builder by Jordan Russel. I can't believe how quickly I got the features I wanted (desktop shortcut, start program at end of install, quick-launch option). From first seeing the Inno Setup web site to having my install built and working took about 6 minutes. Unbelievable. I wasted multiple days trying to get VS.Net's built-in install builder to do

Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16638784375499554665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9998044.post-1106092928743931082005-01-18T15:49:00.000-08:002008-02-22T11:00:49.440-08:00

I just found a good way to delete a bunch of programming tool temporary files (like .obj and .pdb files). I have a directory under which I have hundreds of development projects in different languages, and to back it up I either have to select the files I specifically want to backup or delete the files I don't want to backup first. So far I'd been using a script, but due to my discontent with the

Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16638784375499554665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9998044.post-1105129782888987252005-01-07T13:22:00.000-08:002005-01-07T13:12:54.623-08:00

I spent quite a bit of time getting my blogger.com Template set up to have a Show/Hide capability a little better than that provided in the Blogger Hacks instructions for a show/hide link. ... I wanted a summary section shown on the main page, not just the title. Looks like I've gotten it working pretty well now. I ended up with some JavaScript doing DOM navigation to change the class of the

Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16638784375499554665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9998044.post-1105052865804066172005-01-06T15:04:00.000-08:002005-01-07T12:07:43.073-08:00

I went looking for a good C#/.Net logging (Logger) library to use on a home project. I found two main ...options, Apache’s log4net and one on Sourceforge called NLog. Both looked pretty well developed. I also noticed Microsoft’s Logging Application Block, but it’s apparently heavyweight in the extreme, requiring Microsoft Enterprise Instrumentation Framework. I don’t know much about it, and

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