My ‘Big Boy’ Gabe                            My ‘Baby Boy’ Micah

      

My lovely wife Shannon (left)               Me.

       

Well – I have had several domains across the years;

• ChrisDonnan.com
• TradeWeapon.com
• ImpressionOne.com
• XmlPimp.com
• ..perhaps a few more.

In any case – Since I have been posting more and more not just .net related content. I figured I would re-register ChrisDonnan.com (i had let it expire) and go for it.

Wordpress has a big community, lots of extensibility etc. so it seemed like a logical move. In the past I would have not taken a ‘php’ product as I am not a hughe ‘php’ fan – but these folks have got it together

In any case – I am also experimeting with a wiki so I can have some of my standard stuff wiki’d. It is nice to have a domain again to put my stuff.

I managed to export much of my content (to rss and/ or opml) and import it into wordpress – nice. Hopefully I will stay put for a while here.

-Chris

Someone at the office was asking about the melange of tools I have installed on my machine – admittedly I am a tool/ software addict….

What I have on my current project’s machine (win2k….. man) (at least this stuff – and plenty more of lesser note)

VS .Net 2003

Resharper

devMetrics

GhostDoc AddIn

Regions AddIn

Xsd Object Generator

VSWindowManager AddIn

Spring.net

CodeSmith

NDoc

RegexDesigner.NET

CruiseControl.NET

CCTray

NUnit

FxCop

Textpad

Reflector

XmlSpy

Eclipse

Log4net

Infragistics 5.3

Rapid SQL

ClearCase(hatred!!!)

ClearQuest (hatred!!!)

Tomcat

Snippet Compiler

Rhino.Mocks

Simian

Solvent VS.Net Add In

CopySourceAsHtml  VS.Net Add In

Things that when they do not kill my machine I keep installed at my current project

Compuware DevPartner

What I add on other machines as must haves (Windows Server 2k3 @ Home, some XP Pro @ Home) (at least this stuff, along with the above list for the most part - and more of lesser note)

VS.Net 2005

SQL Server 2005

Eclipse Ruby

Tomcat

Axis

Spring (for Java)

Ruby

Omea Reader

Subversion

TortoiseSVN

TortoiseCVS

Apex SQL Edit

SQL Server 2000

Microsoft CAB 2.0

Linux Machine must haves (Current Suse 10)

KDevelop

KDevelop Ruby

Eclipse

MonoDevelop

Subversion

Thunderbird

Firefox

Krdc

Akregator

EditpadPro

Butterfly XML

I could go on – but I am back to work.

-Chris

Extreme Programming Installed

Ship it! A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects

Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers’ Guide, Second Edition

Programming INDIGO

Programming Windows Presentation Foundation

Herding Cats: A Primer for Programmers Who Lead Programmers

Credit Derivatives & Synthetic Structures: A Guide to Instruments and Applications

Fit for Developing Software : Framework for Integrated Tests

Well -  I must say that Suse 10 is just about the best linux distro I have used ever. Now – I am no *nix expert, but I have installed a good 1/2 dozen different linux distros over the past few years – and Suse 10 is just great. The only battle I had this time – I have had in the past : Video drivers on a laptop. In the end – It would only give me 800×600 resolution by default. To fix that – I simply needed to boot into run level 3, and tell Sax2 to force a resolution on the vesa driver using the –vesa flag. I expect this kind of stuff from any linux distro on a laptop. I did waste some time trying to do a kernel rebuild with some proprietary ATI driver – but it was not the correct solution.

I was able to get Eclipse with the Ruby and Java environments set up in minutes. My wireless network card (a 3com) that has given me problems with older Redhat, fedora, mandriva, etc distros worked out with ease.

My FAVORITE part was the I could remote desktop from the linux laptop to my main windows machine. Since I often sit on the sofa after my wife and kids to to bed with the laptop – I need to be able to get at all my machines (windows mostly). The remote desktop was top notch, 100% clean. Wonderful. One next step is to sort out a pet Ruby project to do 100% on the linux machine. I also plan on porting a C# AI project I spent some zillions of hours on ported to Java/ linux so I could easily value cluster myself on many linux machines…  Aaah clustered AI is lovely.

I also need to get a mono development enviroment fully configured. Plenty of work to do

-Chris

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