Archive for January, 2010
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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Thursday, January 28th, 2010
Mercurial ships as a command line tool. Here are some UI based tools to make it work that much better on Windows and in Visual Studio.
TortoiseHg – A Windows Explorer integration for Mercurial (You can download the latest versions of Mercurial and TortoiseHg from the Mercurial site)
HgScc – A source ...
Tags: Mercurial, Visual Studio
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
I’ve been using Subversion to host my code on a Windows Home Server box for the past year or so. At about the same time distributed version control systems (DVCS) started to become the “hot new thing”. Git, Mercurial and Bazaar with their associated community hubs; GitHub, BitBucket and Launchpad ...
Tags: agile, Coding, Mercurial
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Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
The result of all my F# hacking around over Christmas wasn’t just some notes on what not to do (my previous F# blog post). I actually got down to writing some more code for my n-body model in F#. I got down to reading some of “F# for Scientists” and ...
Tags: F#, NBody.net, Parallel Computing
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Monday, January 11th, 2010
Looks like I’ll be speaking in San Francisco in February on the 22nd. Using Agile with Large, Geographically Dispersed Development Teams Distributed and large scale development are a fact of life for many teams. Unfortunately most agile methodologies or approaches assume that ...
Tags: agile, Distributed teams, Events, Large teams, San Francisco
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