My first weekend living in Seattle is drawing to a close and as the sun very, very slowly sets I figured I’d give a wee status report.
Right now I’m living in an apartment provided so nicely by Microsoft in an area of downtown Seattle called Belltown in a place The Shelby.
It’s all about the snappy opening line, watch any classic movie from the 40’s and you’ll realize the importance of the opening line. If you need some evidence check out ‘His Girl Friday’, at least the first 20 minutes, for some of what I consider some of the back & forth dialog around.
Another new Zune client update, another ZuneKeys. For those that don’t know ZuneKeys gives you a few hotkeys to control playing and pausing the Zune software from any application (hence why they’re called global hotkeys). I stole the idea from WinAmp because I’m always needing to pause or skip tracks and it’s much easier to do it with a quick Ctrl + Alt + Home rather than opening up the software and finding the pause button.
One of my clients recently switched hosting providers which threw me for a loop because I was doing all their web site deployment using Subversion. I’d make a change on my development box, commit it, ssh over to their host and issue a matching svn update.
A few weeks ago Rob Conery foolishly tapped me to help get migrations in SubSonic up to snuff and I’ve been working on them ever since trying to sneak them into the latest SubSonic beta. I’ve changed the way they’re implemented slightly from when Rob first talked about them so here’s a quick re-introduction to migrations.