Archive for June, 2008
Thursday, June 19th, 2008
So Chris just sent me a link to CoreWars.org. It was sort of a spin off from tonight's ALT.NET Seattle dinner. This includes some scans of the original Scientific American article from '84. I remember my father bringing a copy of the article home and he and I talking about ...
Tags: ALT.NET, Coding
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
Ever been faced with one of those tricky design or architectural questions? Maybe the team is divided or a key decision maker is a seagull. But you need to move forward quickly.
Ladies and gentlemen... I give you the Architectural Magic Eight Ball, beloved by senior developers and architects everywhere. Solve ...
Tags: p&p, Patterns, Proven practices
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Sunday, June 15th, 2008
An imaginary conversation between you and another developer on your team, whom we'll call Fred.
You: Hey, the build is broken!
Fred: No it's not.
You: It is. The CI server is red and the log says that one of the projects is missing a file.
Fred: It's red?
You: Yes... You did the last ...
Tags: Continuous integration, Proven practices
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Tomorrow night (Thursday 12th June) I'll be talking to the Seattle XP Users group about "A Hundred Days of Continuous Integration". This is a dry run for giving the talk at Agile 2008 in August. At the very least I'm hoping for audience feedback, and not of the rotten fruit ...
Tags: agile, Continuous integration, Distributed teams, Events, p&p, Seattle
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
The System.Data.Linq.DataContext class exposes a TextWriter as the Log property allowing you to monitor the SQL that's getting executed under the covers. The trivial usage of this is to simply set the property to Console.Out and watch the results.
Given that I was adding the Enterprise Library 4.0 Logging Block to ...
Tags: C#, Coding, EntLib, Linq, xUnit
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