You’re busy trying to use the Bootcamp Assistant to install a bootcamp partition on your shiny Macbook, when suddenly you’re greeted with the dreaded fragmentation dialog of death: So what does “The disk cannot be partitioned because some files cannot be moved” actually mean? I mean, I’ve got 25Gb free and I only want a 10Gb windows partition! The answer lies in fragmentation. OSX seems to want a contigious block of clean disk to write [...]

I’m sitting here sipping on a decaf and hacking on a large C# codebase. What has become of me? Don’t worry, I’m not losing my religion, Java will always be my perfect dish (along with Groovy and Grails for the condiments). But often my consulting work takes me places where exotic dialects are spoken. Lately I’ve helped a client with a bunch of C++ and C# integration work on Win32. It doesn’t feel like home, [...]