Friday, January 22, 2016

Can a superfast internet connection change your perspective?

Pondering this afternoon about having a superfast internet connection and what it would mean for my everyday experience.   If I had a superfast internet what kinds of things would I do differently.  What are the types of things that I am not doing because it takes a long time?

One of the things, would be to forgo the use of the Google App Engine developer server.  Maybe.  Seems that GAE does not allow me to attach to a running instance.

How about really extending your filesystem to the web?

Perhaps this would be the full realization of ChromeBooks.  Everything really is in the web.

What are the open questions about ChromeBooks?
-how to do Android development?
-how to do any development (web or rich client)?




Visual Studio .suo ==> there be dragons

Fought a weird problem today in Visual Studio 2015 and the Microsoft Git Extension to Visual Studio.

It really seems that the .suo file is involved with keeping state in Visual Studio because after deleting the file from source control, Visual Studio deleted all the source files from the local hard drive.

Here's the path to the .suo:
.vs\\v14\.suo

After checking out an earlier commit id (before the .suo was deleted) made Visual Studio happier.  The merge of the .suo back into the master branch kept complaining about nothing to commit and a

git push --force

was required to get the HEAD of the master branch happy again.

Moral Lesson:
- be careful deleting .suo from source control...