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In order to upgrade only a subset of the outdated packages for macports: port outdated | grep py2 | awk ‘{print $1}’ | tr “\n” “ “ | sed ‘s/^/sudo port upgrade /g’ | sh To only update the packages with anything to do with “py2”.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

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.

On a 64 bit environment it's very important to make sure that all your projects have the same platform target. When creating console applications, the default is x86, that means that it's easy to get something that give you weird errors.