Linux ODBC connection to MS SQL on Virtual Box Windows

From some time I was looking for a way to develop MS SQL connected application on Linux. I want to create a bridge between two applications and one of them stores data in Microsoft SQL. Since Kubuntu Linux is my development platform of choice I needed a way to be able to connect to the database from my system.

There are several obstacles to overcome, of which the most annoying is that you can’t put MS SQL on Linux directly. There might be a dozen solutions to this (like having an additional Windows/MS SQL server) I prefer to keep all the needed things on my dev box.

Since I have Windows 7 RC downloaded and there’s a free download of Microsoft SQL Server Express 2005 I decided to put Virtual Box to hard work for me.

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Redmine and Passenger on Dreamhost

A few months ago I’ve updated and recreated my Redmine install to latest version. Currently I’m always running on the edge version.

However after update I was constantly receiving a 404, “no route to index.html” error…

Git as a branch container and Visual Studio

One of the features, that differentiates Git from other DSCM like Bazaar and non-distributed SCM like Subversion, is that it holds all of your branches within .git repository that’s in your working copy directory.

Some of devs consider it a disadvantage: you get main development line and all of the branches in one working copy; others as an advantage – since you get all the repository in one directory.