Archive for November, 2007
Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
I've been starting to do a bit of a side project recently and doing some evaluation of the tools I'll be using to do this.
Visual Studio. No question. Very occasionally I've seen jobs where the requirement is to use Notepad... Seriously. Translation - we like our developers to waste time and get ...
Tags: Coding, Tools
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
Here's a little PowerShell script I use to automatically log my build output somewhere so I can look at the last thing I tried to build if need be. Add the following to your profile:
$lastBuild = join-path $env:temp lastbuild.log
function b { msbuild /l:"FileLogger,Microsoft.Build.Engine;logfile=$lastBuild" $args }
function lb { notepad $lastBuild }
Now ...
Tags: Coding, PowerShell
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Saturday, November 17th, 2007
When we were writing Service Factory: Modeling Edition we tried really hard to do some Test Driven Development (TDD) or at the very least write some unit tests around our code. In some cases the approaches we took led to some shortcomings or the code coverage wasn't as high as ...
Tags: Coding, Software factories, TDD
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
Jason Hogg wrote a post about our discussion on patterns vs. tooling at the p&p Summit. This was a fun panel to be on, largely because of the great input we got from the audience.
Wojtek and I were presenting the patterns in tools standpoint, tooling that uses patterns and includes ...
Tags: Patterns
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
I've been having some issues with using the WordPress web UI for authoring posts with a lot of code in. You might have noticed that the last attempt at code formatting was somewhat different. I've switched to using Windows Live Writer with Steve Dunn's code formatter for an altogether smoother ...
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