I had few troubles upgrading to Leopard.
Basically the Mac didn’t start anymore(*).
The problem was on the hard disk nodes, so I reckon a disk check before trying to upgrade. If there are problems, the Mac disk utility will not help you, better to try with DiskWarrior.
If you’re reading this post because it’s too late [...]
Monthly Archives: February 2008
Troubles upgrading to Leopard?
What is a mature team?
On the italian XP mailing list, Tommaso Torti asked an interesting question to the list few days ago.
When do you define a team ‘mature’?
Translating myself, my reply was something like:
A mature team is a team that implements at its best the theories written on books, that makes concrete what’s on paper in value [...]
On the anti-if campaign, the double dispatch service locator example
I had a good number of jokes and questions since the announcement of the anti-if campaign.
Do you want to remove all these if? What’s wrong with the ifs?
So, it’s better to clarify something.
First of all it’s not about removing every single if, it’s about having a more flexible, maintainable and readable code.
A long case (or [...]
How do you build your projects?
Recently we migrated all our build scripts from a combination of bat files + msbuild to a couple of NAnt build files.
There are some reasons for this and some nice outcomes.
Reasons
First of all we wanted to have the same build scripts for Development, CI, QA, UAT and production Environment.
On the Dev machines [...]