Bones Brigadier – Recycling Code Depot

I bought a Kindle (6”). I did it because:
- I like to read
- I hate carrying heavy books around (I read them at home)

“You could have bought an IPad instead” someone said. I didn’t because the IPad:
- Is (a lot) more expensive
- Has a lot of distractions and I want to focus on reading.

So, the Kindle arrived on friday and I knew I was going to love it straight away.

I transfered some PDFs to it (via USB) and all went smoothly. The problem was to read them… The font was just too small. I thought that would be the end of the Kindle experience for me but, as I said, I loved my Kindle and was not ready to give up straight away.

After a few searches I discovered there was a new version of the Kindle software available here.

Although the new pdf functionalities were an improvement, still weren’t good enough. Zoom is good but not the solution (when you zoom in you are left with horizontal and vertical scroll bars which are not easy to deal with).

Once again I remembered I loved my Kindle and so I was not yet ready to throw the towel.

A few more searches took me to a program called Calibre and this is where the magic happened! Installed it on my MacBook and added one PDF to it. Converted it to mobi format and transfered it to my Kindle. Opened it and voila! Success!

I love my Kindle.

BonesBrigadier Reading ebook, Kindle, Reading

When running a NAnt build for a project I am working on at the moment I got the following error:

“Failure scanning ‘{PathToNAnt.Contrib.Tasks.dll}’ for extensions. Unable to load one or more of the requested types. Retrieve the LoaderExceptions property for more information.”

This was obviously related to the NAntContrib <msbuild> task as per target below:

<target name=”devBuild” depends=”cleanDev” description=”">
<loadtasks assembly=”{PathToNAntContribTasksdll}” />
<msbuild project=”{SolutionFile.sln}” />
</target>

In the end, the problem was the version of NAntContribTasks.dll I was using (0.84). I downloaded 0.85 and pointed to it instead and life is beautiful again.

BonesBrigadier C# .NET, Build, NAnt, NAntContrib

To link an App.config to your fitnesse tests use a real path (eg. c:\inetpub\fitnesse\dotnet\App.config) instead of the virtual/relative as used to link dll files and folders (eg. /dotnet/*.dll).

I spent quite a few time trying to find how to do this and couldn’t find documentation on it so I hope this will help someone.

BonesBrigadier Fitnesse Fitnesse