Archive for October, 2008

Batch Conversion of Visual Studio 2005 Solutions to Visual Studio 2008 Solutions

Monday, October 20th, 2008

I do a lot of cross platform portable work.
That means I have to work on WIN32 with WIN32 programmers.

There are a lot of things about visual studio that are warm and fuzzy. Having to go through the solution/project conversion wizard for each solution in a large multi-solution projects isn’t one of them.

Batch Conversion of Visual Studio 2005 Solutions to Visual Studio 2008 Solutions

I now have a perl script that runs devenv /Upgrade SOLUTION.sln for me over a large code base.

I knew /Upgrade had to exist, I finally found it this morning

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Deliberately Do Things Wrong When Learning a New Language

Monday, October 6th, 2008

I read Is learning Perl the hard way the easy way? recently.

Andy Lester links to Learning Perl the Hard Way.

Reading the PDF, Allen B. Downey makes a great suggestion when learning new languages.
He says, “As you are experimenting with a new language, I suggest that you make deliberate errors in order to get familiar
with the most common error messages.”

That is some of the simplest, best advice I’ve heard in a while.

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