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congrats on the old -> new job Marco 
I agree that a Wiki is the correct 'track' - that means the documentation can 'grow' / 'live' rather than end up dead - hopefully find a BA or tech savvy business user and train them up on <whatever product="">
Chris Hulbert has some interesting stuff on his site - this may be of direct interest to you Simple C# Wiki engine | Splinter Software .. Im guessing you've done a Google and seen this GitHub - roadkillwiki/roadkill: A modern .NET Wiki - I havnt found a 'perfect' solution out there - I used to use 'Twiki', Ive used Confluence, Sharepoint as well, Sharepoint being the 'least nice' experience
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Off Topic
Are you still living up Woop Woop or are you back down Sydney way?
Done the last 16 weeks in the CBD and have probably 2 - 3 weeks left on the contract. It's be good to catch up for lunch.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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yeah - why not (woop woop is done and dusted) - Wednesdays and Fridays work for me, how about you ?
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Garth J Lancaster wrote: yeah - why not (woop woop is done and dusted) - Wednesdays and Fridays work for me, how about you ?
I'm in Wednesday, Thursday and Friday this week. Pick a day and I will try to stick to a time we pick. Some times hard to do depending on what the staff in Brisbane plan on the fly and then want me to cover for them.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Garth,
thanks for your thoughts. We're currently using Confluence for our internal documentation. As stated in my post, not finding a wiki software is crucial, but making it easy to write and update documentation "on the go". I'll have a look at Chris' approach, could prove interesting even though any web solution has the downside of installing a Web server locally - Our systems are mainly used to count election data from scanners, and are often cut off from the web.
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Message Closed
modified 18-Feb-17 9:08am.
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Well, until you mentioned Kyrie Irving, I didn't know he existed, so I think I'll continue in that belief.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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My apologies. I tried to edit the message and accidentally deleted it. I'm having all kinds of issues this morning 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Dangit. And I just wanted to brag with my Protector status and how I was able to retrieve the Original Content.
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Well, I suppose I could accidentally delete my reply...
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I suppose the ball he plays with is flat to. Maybe there'll be a new inflate-gate! 
Marc
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everybody knows the world isn't round, it's generally (but not perfectly) spherical.
Nor is it flat, - it's lumpy, pocked and puddled (otherwise there would be no such thing as hills or mountains (which would make riding my bike a lot easier), divers would be unemployed and spelunkers would be strange folk with a silly job title.
Sin tack
the any key okay
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To quote Wikipedia: Quote: Since the Earth is flattened at the poles and bulges at the equator, geodesy represents the shape of the earth with an oblate spheroid. The oblate spheroid, or oblate ellipsoid, is an ellipsoid of revolution obtained by rotating an ellipse about its shorter axis.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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...and then go read up on Big N - geoid-ellipsoid separation, aka one reason why your GPS altitude is crazy. 
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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It is basically spheroidal. Fundamentals of Mapping[^] Quote: The closest basic mathematical figure that approximates the shape of the Earth is the Ellipsoid ⁄ Spheroid.
The earth spheroid is not perfect (of course). This is partly because the earth's composition is not uniform. If it were spherical or flat it would not be geometrically perfect either (if it were flat would there be gravity?). It is a geoid which is very closely approximated by a number of spheroids which are locality specific. Now which spheroid is it? That's where the error arises.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
modified 18-Feb-17 23:26pm.
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My point is that the geoid, a gravitational concept (think "sea level") is a useful refinement on the ellipsoid, particularly when it comes to relating GPS (ellipsoidal) altitude to "reality". (Seeing an altitude reading of 25 metres on the beach is a bit disconcerting to some!) Many GPS devices/apps these days have big N tables built in to make the correction.
(Sorry, I'm a geodesy nerd.) There's a good discussion here[^], particularly chapters 8 and 9.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I'm looking to setup a multipurpose local git server, but I wanted to make sure I was heading down the right path. I have a mixed environment with Windows 10 VS2015 development as well as some Linux servers using VIM and Atom the text editor. Is there a git magic bullet that would work in a mixed environment like this?
Is it as simple as pointing everything to my Linux git server and making periodic commits using Windows and Linux command line?
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I would have thought you just set up a local git server on whatever hardware you have - Windows, Linux, and just use whatever client - command-line, SourceTree, VS Code etc that you have
The only caveat I'd add is, make sure you back up your git server periodically
Im pretty agnostic on o/s - whatever meets your requirements
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You don't have to set up an HTTP git server; you can set up a filesystem based remote repo on any machine you want, but it lacks auth etc. However, it does spare you having to set up an actual Git server in either machine.
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StampedePress wrote: Is it as simple as ... using Windows and Linux command line?
Nothing about the git command line is simple.
Let me rephrase that. Nothing about git is simple! 
Marc
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I use those same tools as well. Git commits are done to your local folder where your project lives. Then, if you want to collaborate, you can push your local commits to a server.
I like Gitlab myself. I run a Gitlab server at home and at work.
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Ok great, that's exactly what I was looking for. Knowing that it's possible is half the battle!
I briefly read about Git Lab, I'll look into that.
Fortunately the projects that are on the Windows and Linux Dev Box will be different so no need for code sharing.
I plan to have the Git server VM run on a Raid 1 setup on a pair of new WD Red drives, plenty of snapshots for emergency backups.
Thanks all!
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Yes it is as simple as that.
If windows clients and linux clients will share some code, you will have to look into automatic line ending conversions.
If you have not done so already, do read the git documentation, especially the book: Git - Book[^].
This was really helpful in getting me to understand GIT, when we switched from TFSVC to TFSGIT.
And a great big caveat: VS 2015 GIT integration sucks big time. Not all commands work and some of them work only when called from a certain menu. When mixing command line calls of GIT and invocations from within a VS instance running as administrator are also very error prone. Otherwise I really love GIT and wouldn't consider switching back.
Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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If you are new to Git, check out GitExtensions. It's my favorite front-end.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gitextensions/
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