I am starting to use Mercurialfor my personal projects. At the moment I use it only locally to be able to experience it but also to be able to try thing and revert easily to previous state.

To get started I downloaded

Beginning of October we announced, through Mark’s blog,  the update of the two open source projects we have at Jobping

• Jobping Url Shortener version 0.6

I already talked about this topic in a previous post, Building ClickOnce with TeamCity, which was about .NET framework 3.5. This time I will talk about .NET framework 4.

As always when you change from one .NET framework version to another, there are some more things to install on our build server than just the .NET Framework.

Last week I spent some time playing with the today’s announced jQuery Templates API
It was funny to see the different announcement tonight; Scott, JQuery Blog, James…

If you are a user of the fantastic DropBox tool you might know that you have to organize your folders under a top root folder. This was really an issue for me which I wanted to solve because I like to organize my files in a different manner.

I used the mklink command from a Windows Command

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I am reworking my home office and it was time to start with my work place ergonomic.

One of my goal was to cleanup a bit and gain some place on my desk. I wanted to be able to move my two 24’’ Samsung SyncMaster 2493HM monitors so that I can work on paper without going to another desk. I also wanted to be able adjust the position of the monitor easily.

Tonight during the preparation of an usb stick using Windows 7 USB/DVD Download I got an error message about bootsect just at the end of the creation of bootable usb stick. Following the troubleshoot link I arrived on the following

When creating a bootable USB device, I am getting an error about bootsect

Today, my friend Didier finally pushed his post about Netflix on his blog, Corporate Culture: unusual Netflix example. Some time ago, quite some time ago, he sent me the presentation about Netflix, which had a big impact on me! I liked very much the idea !

Netflix thinks that “as they grow, they have to minimize rules”. Different approach as what we all know, experience, read. And … Netflix is definitely not a startup anymore! I would like to share with you a document from Netflix I found on SlideShare about their culture and some quite innovative management ideas they have put in place. Feed for thoughts ;-)

Following my post about Application Acceptance Testing, we went, beginning of that week, in some very interesting discussions during a meeting at Innoveo in which I presented the differences between Mock and Stub in Unit Test. After the meeting as I often do I gather up from the web some posts which expressed in more details what I was talking about and made some extract of the posts.

This time I found some interesting content follow-up on my explanations on the site of Rhino.Mock framework website and a post from Martin Fowler; Mock’s aren’t Stubs