Getting F# Running on a Continuous Integration Server

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

Getting the NBody.NET project migrated to Visual Studio 2010 has been a somewhat drawn out process as I’ve hit a few snags along the way. I don’t install VS 2010 on my CI server so this means installing sufficient prerequisites to build the project. Essentially the .NET 4 Framework ...

Mercurial + PowerShell

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

My last couple of posts have been about Mercurial. I keep discovering new things I like about it. Combining it with PowerShell also presents some exciting possibilities. I have a couple of PowerShell scripts I’ve used for building stuff for a while. This one for instance. ...

Conditional Acceptance Tests with xUnit.net

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

I’ve been using xUnit.net to run some basic acceptance tests. Obviously xUnit is a unit test framework first and foremost but I don’t have a problem with reusing the framework provided you’re really clear about which tests are unit tests and which tests are not. I created an AcceptanceTest ...

Distributed Agile Development at Microsoft Updated

Friday, August 14th, 2009

A while back I wrote a white paper on Distributed Agile Development at Microsoft patterns & practices based on the experiences of the distributed teams at Microsoft patterns & practices. There were a couple of things that didn't make it into the paper which should have and in the year ...

Big Visible Charts,Continuous Integration and Distributed Teams

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

What are Big Visible Charts? Ron Jeffries defines them as: “A simple chart on the wall can bring important information to the attention of the team, the customer, and everyone else who passes through the area.” - Ron Jeffries You’ll ...