This post is no longer necessary as microsoft now provide official virtualbox images, yay! http://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools#downloads Microsoft provide Virtual PC images for testing yo…

I have come to the unfortunate conclusion that git is not the perfect tool for teams developing exclusively on Windows. And by that I mean, I cannot recommend it unconditionally as I would like to be …

Multiple working folders for git on Windows XP (lucky me) It is assumed that you have a git working copy of your project already in place at C:\code\myproject\ and that you want another copy of your p…

How to configure kdiff3 as a mergetool in msysgit. (I think if you install kdiff3 before msysgit it is picked up automatically, if not, do the following after installing both). In git bash: git config…

Steps I took to get a backuppc server on an ubuntu 8.10 pc in order to be able to back up a windows vista business pc. I've only documented the non-obvious and undocumented items here. Added a user c…