If you are using any SCM that allows cheap branches (like Perforce) and are following the advices from the High-level Best Practices document, you might be interested in (or already know) Laura Wingerd’s presentation Convergence vs. Divergence: Purposeful Merging with Perforce about how to converge to codelines using Merge Down, Copy Up [PDF]. I have seen it many times that a main codeline got broken because the Merge Down, Copy Up idiom was ignored.
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Did you ever have the need to use different versions of Microsofts Visual C++ compiler from the command line? Did you wish you wouldn’t have to constantly call vcvars32.bat or change your environment (PATH, INCLUDE and LIB variables)?
In comes a little tool called envvc.exe. It sets the environment for the chosen version and then calls any chosen executable. As additional feature it verifies that you have installed the latest service pack for the chosen version.
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Wie diese Woche bekannt wurde, gewann Kaba-Gilgen AG aus Schwarzenburg nach einem sechsmonatigen Pilotbetrieb die internationale Ausschreibung der Pariser Métro (RATP), zwei Linien mit halbhohen Bahnsteigtüren (Platform Screen Doors PSD half-height, PDF) auszurüsten.
Ich gratuliere dem ADP-Team von Kaba-Gilgen für diesen Erfolg und freue mich, dass damit auch die Arbeit von Hug-Witschi den Weg nach Paris findet. Hug-Witschi hat im Auftrag von Kaba-Gilgen die Steuerung (Hardware und erste Version der Software) der einzelnen Türeinheiten entwickelt.
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At work, we started using dmake in 1991 (or even earlier) for building the firmware for the Vending Machine Controller Euro'90. The firmware consisted mostly of PL/M and C code and the compilers suffered from the DOS limitation of 127 characters per command line. Dennis Vadura’s dmake 3.70 (hosted by the University of Waterloo and available as DOS version) featured the $(mktmp ) macro that let me create any needed temporary config and response files.
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