This would have been my third or fourth question I think.

It's just astonishing how just explaining it in detail, clears your head enough to see a solution.

@hack That´s exactly it.

What makes it even worse:
The very first line defines that character throughout the rest of the file...

@stop This Edifact format is basically universal. but most of the time it's used for electronic transfer of invoices and similar documents.

I do that all the time.
But I don´t delete it afterwards.
I store it all in a private repo.

Don´t wanna know how many little command line tools are flying around in there.

Just last week I needed a way to modify A LOT of projects in a Visual Studio solution at once.
So I´ve written a command line tool to change what I need.
One method (main) one parameter (path to solution file). That´s it.

It´s somewhere in that repo now.
Probably won´t ever see the light of day ever again...

It´s not the temperature. Here currently 33°C.
That´s perfectly normal.

Yesterday it wasn´t that bad although it was almost as hot as now.

It´s the air humidity.
Here now it´s currently around 70% outside.

Well not a script exactly.
But I automated our Release system completely.

Every step that has been done before manually before a release could be created, is now executed by several different command line tools I created.
And all orchestraded by jenkins.
(Merging deployment data, sanity checks on new sql scripts, version number generation and insertion into assemblies before executing the compiler and so on)

One click and it´s done in 15 Minutes.

Time saved: about 2 to 4 hours per release.

@telephantasm Just read it by coincidence on a german tech news website.
The weekly dev channel is still only on Win10.
The daily canary builds now have separate downloads for Win 7, 8 and 8.1.

@telephantasm I think I read today that it's now available for 7 and 8.1.
Just checked and yup. The canary builds are available.

Newest project Desktop application is going to be be WPF.
Currently working on the framework for it.

Had that too.
My GPU didn't want to boost the clock with my application.
For me a driver update fixed that.

@Wack No need to compare with the original. Usually we could tell without a problem what the correct char was.
After we got the code to compile we just searched for the broken char with a regex like this to find it in string constants.
^[^!']*�
(Visual Basic .Net Code, so comments start with ')

@alexThunder Comparing is a bit hard since it happened only in files that needed to be merged with conflicts.

And yes that´s exactly what he did now.
Going through all files and change all occurences of that char with a global replace.

Oh I beg to differ here. Especially when programming in a field like ERP.

Yes the code is good when it tells you that a specific thing is being done. But without any comment why it is done, it's a nightmare for anyone who looks at it afterwards.

I don't know how often I heard sentences like: Why the fuck is this value here subtracted from this value.

I hear something like that all the time when it comes to tax calculation.

Yes you can look at the documentation (good luck with finding any details about that specific calculation).
But a comment in code would help a lot.
Even if it just points to a specific line in the documentation.

@Wolle Anyone who wants to work here, (doesn´t matter what job it is), has to do a small internship for at least two weeks.
It´s just to get acquainted with him. Basically testing if he fits the team and also to check if he can actually do what he claims he can.

@xewl @AlmondSauce
What do you think I did ...

But...
That guy claims to have a master in IT and worked with .Net in other projects for more than 5 years.
I expect more from someone like that.

@C0D4 It´s still SVN. We are still in the process of migrating to Git.

@Noren Well as I said: Best Documentation I´ve read so far.
Thanks for the tip!

@Noren In my case it does exactly what I need. (At least the svn2git.Net Version I found)
So I don´t need to automate much myself, except for converting the single projects.

The SVN Repo here hasn´t been maintained that well from my predecessors.
They didn´t understand the concept of branches or tags.
They basically just spit every project (no matter what it was) into the trunk of one repository.

So I have now a script which goes through every folder in trunk and calls svn2gitnet with the option --rootistrunk to create a new git repo.

Now gotta work on something to get those repos into gitlab afterwards.

@Noren svn2git is nothing else but a wrapper for git-svn.
It automates a lot of steps you would otherwise have to do manually.
And since we don't have standard repositories in SVN, I would be sitting there doing all that steps for every single project.
Which we have a lot...

You can all stop!
This one wins!

That´s a third degree burn right there!

I actually see it as some sort of reflection of what I have done.
Usually I then find some big flaws in the way I did it and can actually correct it or do it better next time.

Like this I'm writing documentation more for myself, which most of the time means I'm the only one who understands it. But hey no one's complaining since no one reads it anyways.

Apparently just my Chrome didn´t want to update.
Did it manually. Now I see it too.

Holy crap that´s awful.
All the contrast is gone.

Huh...

I actually didn´t notice the design changed.

Alestorm is awesome!

Man it´s been a really long time since I´ve seen them live...

They didn´t have that duck back then.

But a shark that went crowdsurfing in a little rubber boat.

@Pharilax I tried them all. With probably every DE possible.
Last one was Arch with xfce.
Used it for a few weeks.
Got rid of it a few days ago.

@Pharilax I read that they've been testing it in the insider preview.
Since I've never seen those ads, I assumed it's in the current insider preview and not already in the main version...

Meh, I'll keep using Windows.
Linux sucks on Desktop.

@Pharilax So far only the Insider Preview (Microsofts Beta program) of Win 10 has this.
Also it's not final that this will be in the next major update.

And as always it's going to be easy to get rid of it.

@cb219 I once bought two OEM licenses. One doesn't work anymore. The other one I don't know. Don't want to test it.

I didn't bother to get a new one.
I found ... other methods of activating it.

Where did you buy the license?
If you bought an OEM key cheap online, it probably has been deactivated, because it has been used too often.

You should complain where you bought it. They usually send you a new one.

But that one will be probably deactivated too the next time you reinstall windows.

@qwerty77asdf After a few weeks I recognised a few changes.

I slept better and got more easily out of bed in the morning.

But also some negative stuff. Concentration was bad for some time. (Probably some symptoms of withdrawal)

After a month or so it was ok again.

I recommend fruits, like apples and bananas together with some oatmeal. That really helps in the morning.

At the moment (befcause of the heat) I´m eating watermelon almost daily.