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 ...
Tags: Continuous integration, F#
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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. ...
Tags: Continuous integration, Mercurial, PowerShell
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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 ...
Tags: C#, Coding, Continuous integration, TDD, xUnit
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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 ...
Tags: agile, Chicago, Continuous integration, Distributed teams, Tools
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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 ...
Tags: Continuous integration, Distributed teams, Static analysis
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