Years ago, when we were trying to make our bid on the professional racing scene, we were always so interested in what a professional lifestyle would be like. The reality of it is that while we have all come to know Lance Armstrong and his amazing accomplishments, he is one of the very few who are making real money in the sport of cycling. He is probably the only one in the world making “Tom Cruise Money.” (more…)

We use CVS on many of our projects. CVS allows several developers to collaborate on the same file, tracking their changes and merging them. At RD2, we use a program on our Windows machines called Tortoise CVS to interface with the CVS server. Tortoise CVS provides a friendlier interface to using CVS than using the command line (unless that floats your boat!).

Last week, in the course of developing a page for one of our clients, I determined that the route I was taking (and the changes I had “committed” to the CVS server) was not the direction I wanted to go, and needed to roll back to a previous version of the file. That’s one of the neat things about CVS — each time a developer “commits” their changes, a new version number is created. At any time, you can see what has changed between versions. In this case, I was up to version 1.10, but wanted to revert to version 1.08.

This is when things got tricky. (more…)

It occurred to me that we haven’t blogged about our breakfast tacos. Really, Alex would be better qualified, because he pays more attention to food than, well, anyone I’ve met, but I’m here at the office early and I’m patiently awaiting our Friday morning treat.

We get them from a place nearby called “Tin Star“. The particularly fun part is (more…)