thoughts to blog

So DreamHost decided to upgrade to Rails 1.1 out of the blue without warning. Lots of people are upset. I too was upset when I found out that my blog suddenly went down due to breaking changes in versions of Rails. I wasn’t about to scream and rant.

I knew some people would figure it out.

What did I do?

$cd sites/thoughtstoblog.com/vendor
$svn export http://dev.rubyonrails.org/svn/rails/tags/rel_1-0-0/ rails

Subversion to the rescue AGAIN.

UPDATE

To be fair, they reverted… and posted an article on it.

A bunch of random shit once again… sorry for the lack of REAL posts.

• Rory is getting it, he even reviewed it.


• Ruby on Rails hit 1.1! Congratulations!


• A student tries to spend Spring Break at Walmart. Hilarious.


• I finally have a few examples up. (cross post)


• Happy Birthday Mom!


• Manage your XBL Friends List ONLINE!


• I’m hitting up this debate with Amy on Thursday… I’m hooked.


• I think I’m going to TechEd 2006. Should be fun! If you live near Boston, let me know…


• I want this shirt


• I’m back onto del.icio.us. Check out my links (600+)

I think that should do it for now.

So I wrote a quick little demo application that might come in handy for a variety of different people.

Ever curious at how many colors are available in the .Net System.Drawing.Color Structure? Wonder what they look like?

Here’s your solution. DevelopStuff.Examples.ColorChart

Feature List:

• Uses reflection to cache available colors.


• Sorting by Name, RGB values, and clustering (as shown above).


• Ability to save colors according to form size to JPG,PNG,GIF, and BMP.


• Uses Double Buffering.


• Automatically resizes and redraws swatches.

This software is distributed under the MIT License (included in the code).

latest:

svn co http://developstuff.googlecode.com/svn/colorchart C:DevelopStuff.Examples.ColorChart

Copyright (c) 2006 Jacob Good

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this 
software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software 
without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, 
merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to 
permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies 
or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, 
INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR 
PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE 
FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, 
TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR 
OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

but I’d be damned if we would have had a video camera growing up, because I’m sure there’d be plenty of video content just like this…

this kid is a gamer.

Copyright (c) 2005-2007 Jacob Good

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this 
software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software 
without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, 
merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to 
permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies 
or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, 
INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR 
PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE 
FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, 
TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR 
OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

So this is funny… I get random people wanting to add me to their MSN list… apparently from all over the world.

How’d they get my MSN address? They all “claim” to come from Channel 9 (a Microsoft developer site).

I’m always curious if these people are actually real, so I try to have conversations with them… asking them very specific questions that bots might answer funny or have trouble with.

Today marked one of the BEST conversations… Everything I know about AI and human interaction is pointing to this person being a bot, but the answers it spits back are tough to decipher. The flow, word choice, timing, and even context is very well done. I’ve talked to a lot of stupid bots, this one is a very smart one. It even did a time calculation for me, when I asked what time it was there…

Here’s an excerpt (though not the most convincing, this one led me to my final decision of it being a bot):

Mr. Good says:
I don't believe you're real.

All people love Money , Food , and .....  says:
oh why ?

Mr. Good says:
because there are lots of bots that go through Channel 9 and have found my email address...

Mr. Good says:
so then I ask questions

Mr. Good says:
like... What do you do for a living that would make you check out Channel 9?

Mr. Good says:
Why would you randomly add my email address?

All people love Money , Food , and .....  says:
i'm study computer sceince in frankfurt university 

All people love Money , Food , and .....  says:
science*

All people love Money , Food , and .....  says:
i'm just want to have friends who working with IT like me

All people love Money , Food , and .....  says:
anyway i'm sorry if u don't like chatting with me

All people love Money , Food , and .....  says:
bye 

Mr. Good says:
i wouldn't mind it if i didn't have the little (read:large) intiution that you're not real

Mr. Good says:
but yet somehow i keep conversing with you as if you were

All people love Money , Food , and .....  says:
as u like

Mr. Good says:
...

All people love Money , Food , and .....  says:
sorry i was on phone with my friend 

All people love Money , Food , and .....  says:
so what do u mean ?

Here goes a set of random thoughts all over the board:

• You can now sign up for Jeopardy online! You can only take this once


• I finished up G.R.A.W. last night… only 11 missions, super easy on Normal. Might push through hard but if normal was this easy, who knows.


• I purchased Oblivion, will start it tonight! I’m super excited.


• My place of employment has official blogs now. Check mine out! It will be entirely focused on technology. I will cross post from time to time, be warned.


• Mike is playing with WPF more than I am, and I’m jealous.


• Ahhh a relaxing look at gaming in the last 20 years. It’s awesome that my entire life span has reached across the breadth of gaming technology… and I’ve been there, dedicated, every step of the way.


• I have to pay in to taxes for the first time… GRRRRRR


• I’ll head home sometime in April, that should be fun!


• Driving 30 miles to and from work is getting tiring.


• Have you seen ATLAS yet?


• I want to do something that will change people’s lives, what should I do?


• Looks like the Packers lost Longwell… :: sigh :: the season is looking dim.


• I have a few projects that I want to speak about, but don’t feel like they’re ready yet… Any designers out there?


• How many vegetarians does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Two: one to change the light bulb and the other to check for animal ingredients… :) What’s up with me meeting all of the vegetarians (or vegetarian dining) people in the twin cities? Not that it’s a bad thing


• I wish there was a way to export all of my links from My Web 2.0 Beta. I think I want to go back to del.icio.us.


• Watched The Aristocrats with Amy on Tuesday, hilarious!

I think that should do it for now… until then, have a wonderful Thursday readers!

check this out , it’s built with rails plus it’s an interesting idea.

I swear by regular expressions… they are a tool that developers can use in many ways. Essentially it allows you to specific a wildcard search but with more restrictions. In layman’s terms, it helps you find shit.

Today’s lesson is on using regex for find/replace functionality within Visual Studio. I’m not going to teach you regular expressions, but I will show you how to easily use them within Visual Studio.

Say you have an xml comment that is ambiguous and is all over your entire project (say 167 times).

It looks like this.

/// 

It’s ambiguous because you’ll have multiple overrides of AddRange that take in an array, the custom collection itself, or maybe a generic list.

You’ll want to change it to a specific AddRange, or the more generic one.

/// 

There are 167 instances of this… Ohh Jake! What will we ever DO?

Start off by hitting CTL-H (find/replace)

You’ll want to “find” things that fit the description and replace them with a piece of the text you search against (which happens to be the wild card).

Here are the expressions

Find:

{[a-zA-Z]+}Collection.AddRange"/>

Replace:

1Collection.AddRange(1[])"/>

Let’s break the expressions down…

Find:
The {} braces signify that I want to capture the values you find, to use them later in the replace. [a-zA-Z]+ tell it to find 1 or more characters before it hits Collection.AddRange

Replace:
The 1 tells Visual Studio to take whatever I captured in my first set of {} braces and use that in my replace value.

See… it’s really that simple, 2 minutes of writing regular expression code saved me the trouble of opening, finding, and replacing lines of text in 167 files.

Not bad.

So I had YAGW (read: Yet Another Good Weekend)…

Friday:

Being bored watching Greg and his buddies play Big Buck Hunter 2006 while being surrounded by people in green suits. (Green IS my favorite color, don’t get me wrong).

Saturday:

Went out on a great date with Amy. The whole thing was planned out perfectly… I showed up with flowers and a good book (following a discussion we had about the topic) promptly (she didn’t know when I was showing up) at 7:15pm. Dinner at Ike’s downtown, where we had a pot-pourri of foods… including lobster corndogs, artichoke hotdish, table-side quac, and of course… mini charlies. Followed by a few Jameson and cokes (for me) and vodka lemonades (for her) at The Local. A brief stop by the “Kissing Room” at The Local ended the night with perfection.

The title of the post reflects a conversation we had. The question was posed: “If you could have ANY animal, dead, alive, extinct, ficticious… What would you want as a pet?”. What was so interesting about our answers? They were both Falkor from The Neverending Story. She’s such a stalker.

Sunday:

Somewhat lazy… a movie in the afternoon followed by a bunch of TV, movie, video games, and book reading..

That about sums it up for my weekend, which ended up rocking.

Hidden in a Virtual world of Very interesting Vernacular, Valor often Validates the Vivacity and Vitality of Villains after they’ve Veered away from the path of evil.

Ok… I give up. I can’t carry on a large dialog using only words that start with V, as they did in the opening scene of V for Vendetta, the topic of this month’s Moving Images.

Built upon a story of vengence against a controlling government, the film tries to draw you into a plot thick with symbolism and Verbose dialog. There are times where the details get too thick to try to catch it all, but a few moments of humour sneak in for a good break in concentration.

The original story comes from a comic book series involving a freedom fighter named V who leads the people in a revolution against a controlling government. It’s often humorous when film makers place their personal ”Vendettas” into their work… it’s art right? Maybe it was me… or maybe it was completely obvious, but I saw a lot of outcry against more current affairs in our own government system. One such instance is the fear placed into society around the avian flu. Strange coincidence? I think not.

The action in the film, which the trailers tried to lure you in with, only took place a few times during the 2 hour and 10 minute film. Though little in numbers, it was big in complexity and slash factor. There is a love plot, even if it involves a bald Natalie Portman.

Overall I would say the movie is a good movie… not a great epic or superhero tale like Spiderman or The X-Men, but a movie that I’d watch again to catch even more of the details.

I can’t stand email forwards, chain mail, those “life” stories on MySpace, or any of those survey’s, and most of all… those “look at me, i need attention” bulletin posts.

but

I saw one earlier today, where you fire up your favorite music player, toggle shuffle on, and hit play. Answer the questions in order with the songs that come up.

It was kinda creepy what came up on some of the questions… (ones in bold)

How does the world see you?

2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted - 2Pac & Snoop Dog

Will I have a happy life?

Let it Bang - The X-Ecutioners

What do my friends really think of me?

Right About Now - Talib Kweli

Do people secretly lust after me?

Amibtionz Az a Ridah - 2Pac

How can I make myself happy?

Money, Power, & Respect - DMX/Lil’ Lim/ LOX

What should I do with my life?

Errtime - Nelly

Will I ever have children?

Lose My Breath - Destiny’s Child

What is some good advice for me?

Billie Jean - Michael Jackson

How will I be remembered?

It’s Goin’ Down - The X-Ecutioners

What is my signature dancing song?

Sea to Sea - Matisyahu

What do I think my current theme song is?

‘Bout it, ‘Bout it - Master P

What does everyone else think my current theme song is?

Refuge - Matisyahu

What song will play at my funeral?

Back Then - Mike Jones

What type of men/women do you like?

One Two Step - Ciara

What is my day going to be like?

Elegance - Kindohm

What will my love life be like?

Drugs, Basketball, & Rap - Talib Kweli

How will I be successful?

4,3,2,1 - Canibus/DMX/LL Cool J/Method Man/ Redman

I took it a little further and summed it up:

Everyone sees me as one of America’s most wanted, letting my life bang, making myself happy with Money, Power, and Respect; losing my breath when I figure out that I’m having a child, but Billie Jean’s not my lover.. and the kid isn’t mine. I’ll be remembered by what went down and I’m always ‘Bout it ‘Bout it.

Back then, hoes didn’t want me… now I got hot hoes all on me. I like the dancing kind of women… and today, my day will be filled with elegance.

How will I be successful? By counting backwards.

haha

So as some of you know… I used to have a blog at whoisjake.com/blog.

The whole concept was for you and me to figure out who JAKE really is…

Where am I going with this? Well let me ask…

Who are all of you out there, my faithful readers?

I know who some of you are, but I would definitely like to know everyone.

If you read my blog (even if I know)… would you mind dropping me a comment or an email?

I’m just really curious and love to have interesting conversations with interesting people.

(p.s. I’m mostly curious as to whom is reading my blog from a West St. Paul K-12 school and a few others from all over…)

The BEST motivation while working from home: try watching Rudy.

Damn that kid has heart.

Rudy! Rudy! Rudy!

Yeah so I woke up to another 6” or so of snow… making for a total of 12 to 14” of snow… or something crazy like that.

No way I’m driving to Fridley today… at least this time I have hot water.

Hopefully I still get to chill with Amy and watch a movie tonight. We’ll see what the weather brings us.

Jake becomes grumpy (read: here comes a rant)

So I had a really good weekend… and on my day of rest (Sunday) I typically don’t shower (eww gross) unless I’m heading out of the house. It was nice.

Then I wake up on Monday morning… to a pile of snow… on March 12th, 3 fuckings days after 50F weather. This prevented me from travelling up to Fridley for my daily commute.

I go to hop in the shower… and guess what? NO HOT WATER. The circuit was tripped… which I flipped back on. Luckily, since I was now stuck at home… I could get away with not having a shower. I still wanted one. 2 hours later, the hot water didn’t return. I reset the water heater. Still no hot water.

Then I find out that my VPN connection to the client is hosing their bandwidth and I get nothing done for the day. Frustrating.

This morning? No hot water still… the work order is in to have someone come out and check on it, but man… not having a hot shower since Saturday evening is really playing mental games with me.

Then the drive this morning (ps, after a cold shower and a half hour of scraping and digging to get to my car) sucked. There’s nothing more annoying than being stuck in traffic between two females who think that their makeup application is more important than traffic flowing smoothly. An hour later, I arrive at my destination… I check my feedreader… and find out that I’m that guy.

Cold, no hot shower, long lines of traffic, frustrating VPN connections, snow… I need to get away.

Someone cheer me up.

Setting: I’m pulled up to an intersection in my Ferrari Challenge Strandale, just arriving from the local Taco Hell drive through… when up comes a blue impala driven by the one and only Taco Bell “Good to Go” guy.

(Jake does the “What’s Up?” head nod)

(Taco Bell Guy does the “What’s Up?” head nod)

Jake - So… how’s it going?

Taco Bell Guy - It’s good to go!

Jake - What’s good to go?

Taco Bell Guy - This crunchwrap supreme. It’s good to go!

Jake - Ok, you’ve mentioned that already. Wanna race?

(Jake revs his Ferrari up to 8500 RPMs)

(Taco Bell Guy reaches into his glove compartment box, whips out a D. Eagle)

Taco Bell Guy - Is it good to go now mutha fucka? How’s this treat you? You better recognize before you get hospitalized… fucking softshell taco mutha fucka.

Jake - WHAT THE FUCK? You are insane… Just don’t shoot me, I haven’t had time to eat my cheesy fiesta potatoes, it’s my favorite part of my $3.78 meal.

Taco Bell Guy - It’s ok man, It’s good to go.

(Jake checks to ensure he didn’t piss himself)

(Taco Bell Guys puts his gun down and chomps on his crunchwrap supreme)

Jake - You had me for a second… I mean, it was scary the first time I met the little chihuahua dog… I almost stepped on him, but this… this shit is out of control.

Taco Bell Guy - See, I told you… it’s good to gooooooo

(Taco Bell Guy does the “Good to Go” hand wave thing)

Jake - It’s not good to go. Holy shit. The only thing that’s good to go is the incredibly uncomfortable bowel movement that has taken course since my recent visit to Taco Hell in combination with you shoving a .50 caliber pistol in my FACE.

Taco Bell Guy - I’m sorry, do you want a coupon for a free 1/2 lb. beef and potatoe burrito?

(Jake smiles)

Jake - Sure.

He turned 66 today…

You’ve seen all of those goofy facts… here they are, spoken from the legend himself.

Since my relaunch of a personal blog, there have been 6 articles that have been at the top of clicks and searches.

Check them out!

WinFX Feb CTP Installation Error

Daniel Tosh - true stories i made up

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself

Topological Sorting (my personal favorite)

Conversation with Arnold

Halo 2 Name Generator

interesting stuff (for me at least).

So today I decided, that since I love Fridays soooooo much… I’m going to take a half day.

What am I going to do on this half day (at home)?

Play Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter (aka G.R.A.W), cause yeah, I bought it. w00t!

It’s a gorgeous game in 720p… simply stunning. The HUD alone is amazing, it deserves a closer look at what’s going on. Each character on screen is rendering at 18,000 polygons. That’s more than an entire level of Ghost Recon on the PS2 (take that Sony fan boi).

The HDR effects are delicious.

Overall… a sweet game, adds to my collection of 12 or 13 Tom Clancy games.

Aaron did this once… so I’m repeating it here, because it’s funny.

Contest

Find the funniest/weirdest/sickest search query that returns my blog or a blog entry as a result in the first page of results.

Rules

• Must leave a comment with an email address and name for entry.


• Multiple entries are allowed.


• Must be in the first page of results. (I’ll check them as they are posted to ensure they don’t slip)


• Be creative.


• They must work in at least ONE search engine listed: Windows Live, Google.com, MSN Search, or Yahoo Search


• You have until Monday, March 13th, 2006

Judges

You. After all of the submissions are in… my readers will decide by a vote.

Prizes

Fame. Fortune. Labeled as the “most creative search engine abuser ever”.

Submission

It’s really simple to submit a result. Copy and paste an example below.

Just enter your name and email and in the comment box, you can do something like this:

(Using Markdown)

[jake good][1]
[1]: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=jake+good

or (Using Simple HTML)

jake good

or (Plain Text)

site: google.com
query: jake good

Just remember the date: Monday, March 13th, 2006

Many of you know I’m a sucker for statistics on websites…

the best statistic is how people are finding your site (search queries):

• 55317 chanhassen couples swingers videos sex




• celebrity nipple slip




• angelina jolie aviator sunglasses




• my thoughts blog




• gun slinging tricks how to




• blog: silk boxers teen

NOTE some of them are on subsequent pages.

:: chuckles ::

…why does money always seem to be at the top of my list.

on one end, I’m getting another big promotion… but it seems as though money always leaves faster than it comes in… and someone else always claims that your money should become theirs.

Options:

1. Rob a bank.


2. Plan a heist (which would also bump up the coolness factor).


3. Strip for money.


4. Become a pusher. Maybe my street name would be Sniffles.


5. Move my digital pimping skills into the real world.

or the more rational choices

1. Visit a financial advisor and get on a budget/plan.


2. Augment my income with moonlighting or other project/plan.


3. Make a Web 2.0 startup and sell it before it bombs.

Whatever it is, something needs to happen…

p.s. don’t get me wrong, life is still really good, it can be better.

Kirby Puckett dies at the age of 44 after complications surrounding his recent stroke.

I used to collect all of his baseball cards… he was one of the rare players that played baseball for baseball.

It’s a sad day for baseball.

:: tips a 40oz for Puckett ::

I respond.

“Jake… Do you believe in God?”

“No.”

“So you’re an atheist?”

“I’m a Bright.”

“What the hell is a Bright? Sounds kind of condecending to me…”

“A Bright is an individual who has a naturalistic world view, free of supernatural and mystical entities…”

“So you’re an atheist?”

“Yes. I just choose to use Bright as my label because of the negative implications that surround the word atheist.”

:: shrugs :: there you have it folks… plain and simple.

Yay… another piece of super sweet technology that I’ll probably buy… and never finish a project with.

Project Sun SPOT

From the About Us section

…”Project Sun SPOT (Sunâ„¢ Small Programmable Object Technology) is a snapshot of ongoing research in Sun Microsystems Laboratories. Established in 1990, Sun Labs, with locations in California and Massachusetts, is the applied research and advanced development arm of Sun Microsystems, Inc. Sun Labs is one of the ways Sun invests in the future – the Labs is responsible for many of the technology advancements and inventions that have made Sun a technology powerhouse.”

Imagine the possibilities

1. Swarm research


2. Some sort of robot communication, maybe a framework using it’s base hardware.


3. Remote data collection for environments. (Imagine a ton of little worker robots collecting field data that is way more accurate.)


4. 2G/6G 3-axis accelerometer - All kinds of speed / velocity experiments.

Check out Project Sun SPOT

I apologize if within the last two days, you haven’t been able to hit the blog… I guess my modications I made for Mint and my stats package to my .htaccess file suddenly decided to stop working. Strange.

gotta love

svn revert .htaccess

now we’re back to normal.

I guess WinFX just doesn’t want me to have it on my laptop…

According to these two articles: one and two

I’m not alone.

After installing WinFX CTP…you suddenly can’t add web/service references.

X:Program FilesMicrosoft Visual Studio 8Common7Packages1033wsdl.xsl

That file will be missing. Snag it from someone else and it will all be better.

These little errors are getting annoying…

So I was at lunch today when I passed a White Castle…

(This article may get strange… I used to do things like this on my old blog)

As I was approaching the intersection I saw two large black birds with something in their mouths. It just so happened they were each holding 4 or 5 french fries that were obviously tossed out by someone near the White Castle.

My question is: What will the effects be on birds because they pick up junk food / restraunt food to survive? Will the cholesterol do something to the birds? Will they survive? Will the fittest survive because they don’t pick up the fries? Can humans learn from this sort of natural selection? Do you think that the birds would become super fat birds and will end up never flying?

What do you think?

Vish says:
brb, bathroom, those cornuts i ate this morning arent sitting well :(

poor Veasnar… were they ranch or bbq?

Yeah it’s about time I started talking about video games again… it’s been a while. Shall we say I have been occupied?

Recently I have purchased:

Age of Empires : The Age of Kings (DS) - Very good, though it moves to a turn based strategy rather than a RTS style that we’re used to. This platform BEGS for TBS/RTS but with it’s size, leads to hand cramping. I guess that’s a good thing for a game.

Fight Night Round 3 (360) - I needed something new for the Xbox 360… the demo rocked. Even though I despise EA with a passion and didn’t want to support them, I went ahead and picked it up. I have a boxer named Jake “The Professional” Good … he’s 5-0-0 with 5 KOs. w00t!

Check out these up and coming releases:

Paperboy (360) TBA

Mortal Kombat 3 (360) TBA

Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter (GRAW) (360) 3/7 GOES GOLD!

Street Fighter II Hyper Fighting (360) Soon!

Battlefield 2: Modern Combat (360) 4/11

Scarface: The World Is Yours (360) 10/1

Gears of War (360) TBA

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (360) 3/20 - shaping up to be Game of the Year

College Hoops 2k6 (360) 3/13

Lost Magic (DS) 4/18

Lego Star Wars II : The Original Trilogy (DS) Fall

Mario Basketball 3 on 3 (DS) TBA

The Legend of Zelda DS (DS) TBA

The Legend of Zelda : Twilight Princess (Cube) Fall

I didn’t do any releases for any of the craptacular Sony systems, because we all know that they suck.

This is merely more for my own keepsake… but here are Visual Studio 2005’s command line parameters and switches.

Use:

devenv [solutionfile | projectfile | anyfile.ext] [switches]

The first argument for devenv is usually a solution file or project file.
You can also use any other file as the first argument if you want to have the
file open automatically in an editor. When you enter a project file, the IDE
looks for an .sln file with the same base name as the project file in the
parent directory for the project file. If no such .sln file exists, then the
IDE looks for a single .sln file that references the project. If no such single
.sln file exists, then the IDE creates an unsaved solution with a default .sln
file name that has the same base name as the project file.

Command line builds:

devenv solutionfile.sln /build solutionconfig [ /project projectnameorfile [ /projectconfig name ] ]

Available command line switches:

/Build Builds the solution or project with the specified solution
configuration. For example “Debug”. If multiple platforms
are possible, the configuration name must be enclosed in quotes
and contain platform name. For example: “Debug|Win32”.

/Clean Deletes build outputs.

/Command Starts the IDE and executes the command.

/Deploy Builds and then deploys the specified build configuration.

/Edit Opens the specified files in a running instance of this
application. If there are no running instances, it will
start a new instance with a simplified window layout.

/LCID Sets the default language in the IDE for the UI.

/Log Logs IDE activity to the specified file for troubleshooting.

/NoVSIP Disables the VSIP developer’s license key for VSIP testing.

/Out Appends the build log to a specified file.

/Project Specifies the project to build, clean, or deploy. Must be used with /Build, /Rebuild, /Clean, or /Deploy.

/ProjectConfig Overrides the project configuration specified in the solution
configuration. For example “Debug”. If multiple platforms are
possible, the configuration name must be enclosed in quotes
and contain platform name. For example: “Debug|Win32”.
Must be used with /Project.

/Rebuild Cleans and then builds the solution or project with the
specified configuration.

/ResetAddin Removes commands and command UI associated with the specified Add-in.

/ResetSettings Restores the IDE’s default settings, optionally resets to
the specified VSSettings file.

/ResetSkipPkgs Clears all SkipLoading tags added to VSPackages.

/Run Compiles and runs the specified solution.

/RunExit Compiles and runs the specified solution then closes the IDE.

/SafeMode Launches the IDE in safe mode loading minimal windows.

/Upgrade Upgrades the project or the solution and all projects in it.
A backup of these files will be created as appropriate. Please
see Help on ‘Visual Studio Conversion Wizard’ for more
information on the backup process.

Product-specific switches:

/debugexe Open the specified executable to be debugged. The
remainder of the command line is passed to this
executable as its arguments.

/useenv Use PATH, INCLUDE, LIBPATH, and LIB environment variables
instead of IDE paths for VC++ builds.

To attach the debugger from the command line, use:
VsJITDebugger.exe -p

So last night I met up with Anna and a few of her friends for dinner at Rock Bottom… then onto Kieran’s Irish Pub for Kelly’s “Ms. Blarney 2006 Contest” put on by the Minneapolis St. Patrick’s Day Association. She got robbed of first place and had to settle with second…

It was a blast! There would be no reason why a guy should complain when he’s in the company of 6 beautiful women! Not to mention they were all dying to buy me a drink ;) (so there may be more to that story that I’m not telling…). At any rate, I’m not Irish, but it was a really good crowd and the entertainment (though a little long) was really good.

I’m enjoying spending time with Anna more and more… just hope Greg doesn’t get jealous that my attention is being divided! :)

Well, I guess I should get back to work… that and looking up tickets for the Chanhassen Dinner Theater’s rendition of the West Side Story and a different venue for the broadway play Wicked.