Monthly Archives: March 2009

Tuesday 31-03-2009

Posted by on 31 March, 2009 No comments | Views: 16

Had alarm set for 11:15am, but got up 12:30pm. Me and Z had planned to go to The Deep in Hull but while we were having breakfast we started watching Beetle Juice and by the time it ended it was …

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Monday 30-03-2009

Posted by on 31 March, 2009 No comments | Views: 11

Finally woke up once on time (9:30am). Left Z to doze while I sorted out my mail and read my feeds in google reader. Cycled 18km, 52min, 410kcal, heart rate ~122bpm. Up one difficulty level (5/8) MonoDevelop 2.0 was released …

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Sunday 29-03-2009

Posted by on 30 March, 2009 No comments | Views: 25

Woke up only to see that all the clocks have moved an hour forward (DST off). Sleep–. Very nice sunny weather today. Only warm when it’s sunny though . BBQ with Z, Stuart and Roy in the back-garden. It’s the …

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Sorry about the personal life “spam” on Monologue

Posted by on 29 March, 2009 3 comments | Views: 143

I have filtered my personal feed out of Monologue. Sorry for the “spam”.

28-03-2009 Saturday

Posted by on 28 March, 2009 7 comments | Views: 61

Got up late today. I got up, walked to my desk, turned off my phone’s alarm then took it back to bed with the idea to set an alarm for 30min later and fell asleep before that. Disabled WordPress post …

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27-03-2009 Friday

Posted by on 28 March, 2009 No comments | Views: 52

Thoroughly cleaned my room and the large bathroom in the house. Was supposed to do lots of work on my Security Assessment coursework, but didn’t do any because I was avoiding doing the cleaning all day instead . Also I …

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Git bisect – the awesome way to find the Mr. Bug commit

Posted by on 27 March, 2009 5 comments | Views: 8,716

I had my first experience with git bisect the other day and it’s awesome. What happened is that I introduced a regression which was uncovered by a failing test. Yes,  yes I know I should have ran the full test …

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Celebrating my 400th Mono SVN commit

Posted by on 20 March, 2009 7 comments | Views: 213

As of writing this post I have commited to Mono’s SVN repository exactly 403 times. I know it’s not so impressive it gives me the opportunity to show off my super cool over-engineered hack git-author-stats.py. Below is me in Mono …

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Git automatic smart ChangeLog merging

Posted by on 19 March, 2009 No comments | Views: 936

This might be old news for some, but there is a merge driver for Git that can automatically perform smart merges of ChangeLogs. I’ve used it for months now and it has always worked flawlessly. 1) Install git-merge-changelog which is …

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Coffee Machine Security FAIL

Posted by on 19 March, 2009 4 comments | Views: 361

A few days ago someone broke into one of the coffee machines in the computer science departament. Today I went to grab a coffee from the floor below in the engineering departament only to find out about the new security …

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