Monday, August 30, 2010

Sliding scrum ;)


Sometimes vacation plays hell with your nice schedule. This picture is from a maintenance sprint at work, they solved the problem in they're own way ;) 
It works for them, and if it ain't broken ... don't fix it!
We might want to recommend them to end the sprint soon though!

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Friday, August 6, 2010

Accessing Network resources as Administrator on Windows 7

One of the problems I had when using RubyGems (Ruby 1.91) on Windows 7 was that my homedrive is on a network drive.
So when running rubygems in an elevated command prompt (ie running "As Administrator"), rubygems exited with an error something like could not access H:\. Now this is a problem for me since I want those rubygems on my laptop because I want to be able to work offline (ie at home etc).

After some googling I found out that when running as Administrator the network resources that you have as a normal user are not accessible when you are running as Administrator.
This article here from Microsoft support describes how to do this. Cutting to the chase, you need to:

  1.  create an DWORD key in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System called EnableLinkedConnections and set it's value to 1. 
  2. Reboot
And that's it! Now your existing resources are available when you run as Administrator.