Category Archives: Software

GanttProject – Free Gantt Chart Tool

Wow, I feel like I’ve been living under a rock. Today after fighting Excel to plan my current project, I did the unthinkable, I googled for “free gantt chart” (well I actually missed the second t, but that didn’t affect … Continue reading

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Some iPhone apps are fat little piggies

As part of my last day tidy-up, I was deleting stuff, and I noticed just how big some iPhone games were: Game Size (MB) Free Play Time (m) Size/Minute Assassins Creed Lite 99 10 9.900 Hero Of Sparta Lite 42 … Continue reading

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EAC and Lame_end.dll crashing

Mostly note to self: On a clean install of EAC and LAME use the “Bundle compiled with VC6/Intel Compiler 9.1 – intended for older Windows OSs.” otherwise it crashes when initializing the .dll

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Complex SVN repository conversion to GIT

When I converted our two Visual Source Safe (vss from now on) repositories into one Subversion (svn from now on) repository I did it in an ugly fashion. I dumped the file based history for the current live trees, then … Continue reading

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Read the credits first

The other day James was showing me around QGit, how to do blames, review logs, etc and we were trying to get it to use Beyond Compare as an external diff tool (C:/Progra~1/Beyond~1/BComp.exe /ro %1 %2) Things were behaving funky, … Continue reading

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