Archive for April, 2008

patterns & practices Summit Quebec

Monday, April 28th, 2008

So the session track for the p&p summit in Quebec is pretty much finalized. I've just been signed up to give a talk on continuous integration (CI). This is one of my pet topics (in case you didn't know)... Continuous Integration and Defense in Depth Continuous integration (CI) is the practice of ...

xUnit.net 1.0 released

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Brad's blog announces the release of xUnit 1.0 RTM. Well worth the wait I'm sure. Technorati Tags: Unit testing,TDD,xUnit

ALT.NET and the global currency of ideas

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

Scott Hanselman has a great post about last weekend's ALT.NET conference and the ALT.NET community overall. I'm not "in" with the ALT.NET crowd and wasn't able to attend the conference but some of them did drop by p&p last week. They're nice people and we had an interesting conversation about ...

Improving Twitter with a Bayesian filtering client

Monday, April 21st, 2008

Twitter has been causing me some problems of late. Other than the fact it's been loosing tweets all weekend that is. The signal to noise is causing it to scale poorly. I'd like to follow more people but need some way to cut down on the amount of noise I ...

There’s a strange man following me

Monday, April 21st, 2008

People I've never met follow me on Twitter. This is faintly disturbing. Now people I don't know read my blog but they're anonymous. With Twitter I get an email "Fred Smith is now following you on Twitter!". Who is Fred and why does his avatar show a guy wearing a ...