Archive for May, 2009

Of Plans and Planning

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

In the beginning there was The Plan. The Planner looked upon The Plan and saw that it was good. A prioritized Product Backlog and accompanying Release Plan for the whole of the next release of BigApp 3.0. Enough work to keep hundreds of people busy for the next eighteen ...

Windows 7 RC on the Samsung NC10 Netbook

Monday, May 4th, 2009

Update: New version of this for the final Windows 7 release is here! Here’s an update on my Windows 7 Beta on the Samsung NC10 Netbook post from January. I’ve installed the Windows 7 Ultimate RC on my NC10. I’ve only been running it for a few days but so far ...

An Intel i7 based Development Machine: The Hardware and Build

Monday, May 4th, 2009

A lot’s been going on in the world of PC hardware recently, manycore processors and massively parallel graphics cards. More importantly the software is now available to make use of this. Microsoft’s Parallel Extensions to .NET 3.5 and Nvidia’s CUDA parallel computing architecture both allow developers to leverage the full ...

Gotchas: Getting C++ Projects Building on a CI Server

Friday, May 1st, 2009

The other day I added a VC++ project to my main solution file and all hell broke loose on the TeamCity CI server. Errors like this started appearing. D:\TeamCity\buildAgent\work\71a700fe606e0795\trunk\NBody.sln error MSB3411: Could not load the Visual C++ component "VCBuild.exe". If the component is not installed, either ...