Visual Studio Command Line Compile Hanging

My colleague Chiwoong Moon and I have spent a bunch of time in the past weeks trying to stabilize a Windows build of a C++ project on Windows 7 and Visual Studio 2010 (with and without SP1), which involves a series of command lines calls to the "devenv.exe" which compile various Visual Studio projects. On different machines we had some different failure modes--on my machine it randomly got "stuck" and left behind idle processes.

Chiwoong eventually found out that some of the source files had extended ASCII characters in the comments, and when we removed those characters, the builds worked every time.

An earlier clue should have been that the compiles worked every time if done from Visual Studio directly--although why the command line would not accept the same character set is a mystery.

Does anyone out there know if these tomatoes are actually grown in the San Marzano area, or how to find out?

Update: Found a thread on this at Chowhound

Lava Falls

Lava Falls
Originally uploaded by Snorri Gunnarsson

Volcanic activity in Iceland

tides

tides
Originally uploaded by hkvam

Some amazing photos of Iceland...

How to reconcile agile and architecture in the enterprise?

Here's a thought-provoking presentation from the Thoughtworkers.

Krugman's missing word

There's a word missing from the English language! What do you call Laura Bush when she says something like this about Iraq:

And believe me, no one suffers more than their president and I do when we watch this.

Flickr Tag Galaxy

Re-blog from Phasor Burn--a seriously cool flickr tag virtualization called Tag Galaxy.

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