April 22, 2009

SVN Ruby bindings on Windows

Dan has write a post about how to use the SVN Ruby bindings on Windows. Here is how:
  1. Download the ruby bindings (svn-win32-1.y.z_rb.zip) from the svn site
  2. From the zip - copy ruby\lib\svn into c:\ruby\lib\ruby\site_ruby\1.8\svn
  3. From the zip – copy ruby\ext\svn\ext into c:\ruby\lib\ruby\site_ruby\1.8\svn\ext
  4. copy libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll from your subversion 1.5 directory into c:\ruby\bin
  5. run irb and test with: require ‘svn/core’

April 3, 2009

10 skills developers will need in the next five years

If you’re a developer looking to get ahead in your field (or in some cases, to simply stay employed), this is not a good time to be complacent. Justin James lists the skills you’ll want to work on now to maximize your future job prospects.
  1. One of the “Big Three” (.NET, Java, PHP)
  2. Rich Internet Applications (RIAs)
  3. Web development
  4. Web services
  5. Soft skills
  6. One dynamic and/or functional programming language
  7. Agile methodologies
  8. Domain knowledge
  9. Development “hygiene”
  10. Mobile development
Here is the Chinese translation for the original article.

March 31, 2009

Clean IE history in command line

RunDll32.exe InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 255