Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Blog Code Formatting

http://danielthat.blogspot.com/2013/03/how-to-display-code-in-blogger-posts.html
 
I've started using the code outlines marked in the above article. He references a style chart with a bunch of styles. Here's what my inserted header block looks like, for Linux, C#, and SQL code snippets.
 





Here's the list of brushes currently :
http://alexgorbatchev.com/SyntaxHighlighter/manual/brushes/

Basically, it all comes down to the idea that you put your code into a <pre> block, with an attribute of the brush type you want. Like this:

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Ubuntu 13.04 RDP


Connect to Ubuntu 13.04 from Windows via RDP Protocol using Windows 8 .

After some research, here's the command line version:


sudo apt-get install xrdp

sudo apt-get install gnome-session-fallback

echo “gnome-session –session=gnome-fallback” > ~/.xsession

sudo /etc/init.d/xrdp restart



Tuesday, September 10, 2013

TFS error TF30172

So I'm getting error TF30172 when I'm connecting to a team project on my TFS server. This is annoying, because I had created the existing team projects a different way, and now I'm trying to add them from Visual Studio 2010.
Here's the error I'm getting:
TF30172_ErrorMsg
I found this comment online by Buck Hodges
Unfortunately, there is no fix or change that will ever make it such that VS 2010 will be able to create a team project on a TFS 2012 server. The compat patch that you are referencing addresses a lot of things to make working with TFS 2012 from VS 2010 work well, but creating a team project is not one. You will have to use VS 2012 (or the standalone Team Explorer 2012) to create a team project.
Here's the KB article about a related patch:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2662296?wa=wsignin1.0
I first thought about installing this:
Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Team Foundation Server 2012 Compatibility GDR
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=29082
And then I thought - maybe this?
Team Explorer for Microsoft Visual Studio 2012
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=30656
But ultimately? I settled for a two-part system. I manage my team projects through VS 2012's installed tools, and develop using VS 2010; this lets me do all my check ins and outs there.












Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Not-Quite-Open-Source Project Management

While trying to solve the "get this calendar online" problem I've been facing recently, I've also run across a number of other, generally online-only products available.

Here they are, in no particular order:

trello.com


basecamp.com


LifeHacker - has a post on how to use Google's Calendar as a project management tool all on its own.
http://lifehacker.com/5918676/how-to-use-google-calendar-as-a-project-management-tool


Asana.com