Or, what to do with a particular compilation problem
                  Published at 6:02 pm on November 13th, 2020
                  Filed under: Geekery, Technology.
                  
                
                This week, Microsoft released .NET 5, and it reminded me I’ve been meaning to post a piece of technical advice that has bitten me a few times but which doesn’t seem to be very well-documented or well-described online.  It’s a piece of technical advice, though, that will slowly be fading away in relevance because it’s advice on .NET Framework; so I thought I should put it up here whilst it is still helpful to people.
                  
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                  Keyword noise: programming, coding, .NET Framework, Visual Studio, MSBuild.
                  
                
              
              
                
                  
                  In which different tools behave in different ways
                  Published at 10:16 pm on February 5th, 2016
                  Filed under: Geekery, Technology, Dear Diary.
                  
                
                One of those days when everything seemed to go wrong at work this afternoon.  Partly because of things I broke, partly because of things that other people had messed up before I got there, partly because of things that seemed to go wrong entirely by themselves.
                  
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                  Keyword noise: Visual Studio, MSBuild, git, version control, merging.