Working on a project where we needed a (slight) proof of humaness, and we opted to use Recaptcha as it has a fairly simple integration with .NET. Was fine until we wanted to use custom styling to tie in with the site which is when the fun started! A few hours later, after downloading the project’s sample app, I found some things out that I thought I’d share with you…

I’m just in the process of restructuring my source control environment, splitting the single subversion repository into multiple repositories. Couple of reasons for this.. My repository is getting a bit big at 1.5Gb a big chunk of this are binary files produced by my continuous integration process, so I want to break this out to a dedicated repository. I’d also like to put each client’s work into a separate repository, this makes it easier to archive off and/or remove it at the end of a project as there’s no way to delete files from a repository apart from dumping it and filtering it into a new one.

Microsoft has published the results of some empirical studies about how development practices affect quality Test Driven Development improves quality by 60 to 90 percent but takes 15 to 35 percent more ‘up front’ time. The time spent is compensated by savings in maintenance time later on. Team & organization structure has a huge impact on quality. Although this is conventional wisdom the study publishes figures to prove this. The metrics used data such as how many engineers are involved in a project, how many times individual source files were modified.

Decided to take the plunge on Windows 7, as a test I’ve installed in on my wife’s netbook (Samsung NC20) and if anything it’s more responsive than under Windows XP. Next decision is whether to go the whole hog and install the 64-bit version; the machine is fairly new, a Dell Precision 690, and I like the idea of having >4Gb of RAM for some of the projects I’m working on when I might have three copies of VS 2008 open at the same time.

Just recovering from flu at the moment and I’m an official Swine Flu statistic. Not the nicest of bugs, couldn’t keep any food down until the anti-virals kicked in but the funniest thing about the whole episode is the screening questionnaire to see if you qualify for the Tamiflu. First question is whether you are enquiring on behalf of yourself or someone else, on being told I that I was asking for myself the call centre staff (apologetically) asked