Lessons Learned From the Software Industry
posted on by Donn Felker
During my stint at McFarlane Toys and through many other consulting gigs I've had in my years I'm always running into CSS and style in web applications. If you're a Windows developer be thankful …
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Oh what a P.I.T.A. this error has been. I received this error today... Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Client.ItemExistsException: The item $/path/to/myFile.cs already exists. ---> …
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_PublishedWebsites does not exist?! WHAT?! Huh? One of our TFS builds was succeeding and a fellow developer noticed that the Web App was not getting copied into the _PublishedWebsites folder of our …
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Sometimes I'm not at a client location and I cannot check to make sure that an email component is working correctly. This results from not having the email server at my disposal to relay the message …
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Ran into a real pain in the @ss today. While working with Team Foundation Server I was refactoring a couple of projects and at one point I needed to "Undo" my changes. This is normally accomplished by …
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I was creating a solution file for an application at a client and I got this error message. Sara Ford explains why this happens here. The OS limit is 260 chars for the MAX_PATH variable according to …
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