Code output is only an accurate measurement of a productive day if your primary objective is to write code. As great as it feels to make easily-measurable technical progress, my primary goal is to get paid. As such, my most productive days are those which produce no code at all. So far today I’ve

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I got there through an intriguing ad in some blog sidebar. The landing page was the usual “We-haven’t-launched-yet-give-us-your-email”. The product didn’t necessarily interest me. But I gave them my email anyway. Why?

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Add the directory to the semicolon-delimited registry key “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment\Path”, then restart explorer.exe. This took me 20 minutes to figure out, so I suppose it is worth recording here for the future.
If you have Ruby installed then you can simplify this chore with the patheditor gem. Run
gem install patheditor
And then
path_editor –add c:\your\path
That’s much better!