Nuget Productivity Tip: Roll Your Own PowerShell Scripts in the Visual Studio Package Manager Console I don’t know if it was from watching movies like when Hugh Jackman was pounding away on a command prompt in a high stress scene to hack into the DOD in under 60 seconds. Or maybe it stems from some deep ingrained rationalization I filed in my brain years
Git How to use Visual Studio as your Git mergetool When I first started using Git, I quickly found out I needed to wire up a third party visual merge tool for handling conflicts (merging in the console was just too cool for me). I Google’d around and came back with KDiff3, SourceGear Diff Merge, Perforce P4V, and Beyond
Git Git for the .NET Developer: Part 4 – Git Core Concepts and Commands Git is just like most technology and can be intimidating until you know it. The point of this post is to introduce the very basic core concepts and commands of using Git, particularly in the Windows environment, to rid the initial anxiety. This posting is not intended to provide turnkey
.NET Git for the .NET Developer: Part 3–Setting up Git Environment for Windows (Powershell) You installed the Github for Windows application and can now point and click to work with Github repositories, but it becomes only a matter of time till you realize a GUI is not going to cut it. Your next thought after realizing this varies based on who you are, but
.NET Git for the .NET Developer: Part 2 – Setting up Git Environment for Windows (GUI Style) First off, note that Git is a distributed version control and you have the entire version history stored on your local machine. This is different compared to central version control systems, like TFS, where you only have a local copy of the latest files and the versions are stored on
.NET Git for the .NET Developer: Part 1 – What’s the big deal about Git? If you are like most .NET developers, Team Foundation Server (TFS) and/or Visual Source Safe (VSS) have been your “go-to” tools for version control. With the recent growth of social coding, the integration of Git into Visual Studio, Git repositories offered as a service by Microsoft via Team Foundation
Cross Browser Compatibility What is HTML, CSS, and JavaScript? It is easy for web designers and developers to throw around acronyms without realizing their audience has no clue what they are referring to. HTML, CSS, and JavaScript are commonly used terms that anyone wanting a website created may benefit from knowing. This post walks through each of these technologies
