Doctor Deploys Blog

I claim no involvement with the video presented tonight. I was at the Sounders FC game (watching D.C. United trounce the Sounders). I’m pretty sure it was Eric who promoted this video. Considering how many bugs he’s killed in the WiX v3.5 IIS7 custom action, I guess he deserves a video of his choice.

Read More…

Original post by Rob Mensching

Since it’s launch in 2004, the WiX toolset has been completely hosted on SourceForge.net. SourceForge is fine but feels a bit clunky and a little behind the times. About a year ago I started looking at alternatives since open source hosting platforms are now a dime a dozen. In the end, I didn’t find a single platform that offered everything I wanted. However, CodePlex provides Mercurial and a much better file release system than SourceForge so I decided to use those for WiX. For now bugs and the mailing list do not move (I’m still looking).

Original post by Rob Mensching

This video was all over the internet this week so I thought I’d throw it up. Cool videos of things built with LEGOs will always get my attention. This video is a little short but still impressive.

Original post by Rob Mensching

I’ve been presenting a lot lately. Presenting on lots of different topics with lots of different styles. On one day I’ll present a slide deck that is more pictures of boats, space shuttle engines and cats than words. A couple days later, I’m present a typical text dense data dump that is common in Microsoft reviews where I squished 7 months of my existence into one hour (with questions). The first presentation got lots of smiles and thanks for the high level overview. The second presentation earned me much appreciated praise:

Just wanted to let you know that I loved the content and style of the presentation. Very informative, and the passion came through. I look forward to further deep dives.

So tonight I thought I’d pick a video that matched . I knew it was going to be a quiet night tonight since a bunch of people were going to be out for an early start to the long weekend. Thus there would be fewer people to disappoint with a non-funny video. <smile/>

@jack put me on to this video of Kid Cudi. I found the sound interesting (enough to buy the album after seeing this video) but what I really was impressed by here was his presentation. Watch his hand motions and how synchronized they are with the music. Oh and try to ignore the guy during the guitar solo. <smile/>

Original post by Rob Mensching