How To Add a System Tray Icon For TortoiseSVN
Wednesday 27, 2008

How To Add a System Tray Icon For TortoiseSVN

TortoiseSVN is arguably the best SVN client for Windows, my favorite for sure. The only negative aspect he program comes with is that TSVNCache.exe becomes very large in memory over time. This process keeps a cached state of your folders under source code control.
There is a way of putting an icon in the system [...]

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Wednesday 27, 2008

Easy MySQL Backups on a Windows Server

During the re-launch of BlueCrestStudios we moved to a Windows server. It was part of our initiative to take things back to our roots, and make things simpler. Because we run a fair amount of PHP applications we went with MySQL as our database. MySQL comes with a great little application called "mysqldump" which simply [...]

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Adobe’s AIR: The Good Comes With Bad
Monday 25, 2008

Adobe’s AIR: The Good Comes With Bad

One my favorite morning reads, ReadWriteWeb has a great article about Adobe’s AIR technology. For those not familiar, AIR stands for Adobe Integrated Runtime, and is a cross platform, code once run everywhere, light weight platform for applications. It holds a lot of advantages over other similar platforms. It’s two strong points in my [...]

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Is There No "Try" in "Free Trial"?
Tuesday 19, 2008

Is There No "Try" in "Free Trial"?

With the revamp and release of BlueCrestStudios product line right around the corner, I am paying extra detail to user experience as we polish off the corners and get things ready to go. When you are in development mode, user experience can slide a little as you are mainly concerned about just getting the software [...]

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Saturday 16, 2008

Back Up and Running

We are in the final week(s) of relaunching BlueCrestStudios, and I have had some time lately to overhaul Code and Coffee. New theme, and new content to come soon. Looking forward to it.

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