Sounds interesting to hear about the new WinRT api:s for windows. Reading up on it WinRT are COM objects in contrast to the Win32 architecture. One of the exciting things about this is the promise of being able to use xaml in c++. An overview of WinRT by Marius Bancila:Windows Runtime It’s quite interesting to read the list on Msdn:Windows Runtime and the Windows API Right now it’s probably to early to get a good idea of how everything will look and exactly what features will be accessible for Metro style [...]

I had some problems with running rake under cygwin. I get the following error while trying to execute rake:C:\Ruby192\bin\ruby.exe: No such file or directory – /cygdrive/c/Ruby192/bin/rake (LoadError) Could it be that the problem is that the first line in rake:#!/usr/bin/env ruby  Will return C:\Ruby192\bin\ruby.exe By being more explicit about what to run you can avoid the problem:rake.bat

I had some problems with running rake under cygwin. I get the following error while trying to execute rake:C:\Ruby192\bin\ruby.exe: No such file or directory – /cygdrive/c/Ruby192/bin/rake (LoadError) Could it be that the problem is that the first line in rake:#!/usr/bin/env ruby  Will return C:\Ruby192\bin\ruby.exe By being more explicit about what to run you can avoid the problem:rake.bat

In order to upgrade only a subset of the outdated packages for macports: port outdated | grep py2 | awk ‘{print $1}’ | tr “\n” “ “ | sed ‘s/^/sudo port upgrade /g’ | sh To only update the packages with anything to do with “py2”.

Suppose that you write code without tests that compile. Suppose that those parts do not have any user interface or tests. Then what you’re doing is actually pushing development cost over to other parts of the project that make use of the code. This will probably mean that any cost/time estimates concerning dependent code needs to be adjusted in order to be able to pay for the additional cost.