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_thunkThing: June 2010
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More thoughts from a software developer far from home. Sunday, 20 June 2010. Technical Reveal All: Automate Database Build With Team Foundation Build (part 1). Issue on another project. However, what alarmed me more than anything was the lack of readily available information on this particular topic when I googled. Therefore, this post is designed to offer my experience and my way of achieving what I consider a basic and essential automated build feature in .NET. He had for a while.). You can then previe...
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_thunkThing: August 2012
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More thoughts from a software developer far from home. Tuesday, 28 August 2012. Image courtesy of Kino International). I've just started using Ruby On Rails for developing a pet project. The reasons for this are multiple:. I want to learn a dynamic language.What better one than Ruby as a starter? The number of online resources for help is just staggering. I want to learn techniques from another successful framework. ( FubuMVC. I simply want to know what all the fuss is about. Long, but well worth the rea...
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Norwegian Developer Conference 2008 Review « Haugerns Development Escapades
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Morten Haug on development and other curiosities. Laquo; Using the using-statement and pattern in C#. Copy Source As Html for Visual Studio 2008. Norwegian Developer Conference 2008 Review. I arrived Tuesday at NDC2008. Started the show with a keynote, showing us a little LINQ and the new Dynamic Data. Bits Hanselman was witty, and was a great presenter. After the keynote I was considering several sessions, but I decided to attend Mary Poppendiecks. First session titled Thrashing. There was unfortunately...
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::swingsetacid::: Granularity in Kanban
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Friday, August 21, 2009. Kanban is pretty freeform, I'll admit. Coming from Scrum, which is pretty free-wheeling in itself, I feel like there's very little I'm "required" to do. I can kind of make it up as I go. While I think that's intrinsic to the adaptive nature of lean, and kanban in particular, it does feel a little like I'm out on my own. One thing that's painfully obvious: the ready, in progress, and complete states are not granular enough. I know, I know. That's obvious. Posted by Joshua Ewer.
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::swingsetacid::: The Time-Honoured Rules of Foursquare
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Wednesday, March 31, 2010. The Time-Honoured Rules of Foursquare. While you may find variations on Foursquare rules in many places, the specific rules of this game are as follows:. 2 144 ft 2 squares divided into quadrants. Three squares will be labeled with a royalty mark (Ace, King, Queen); the fourth will be left blank. The blank square will contain a hashed box called the "service square" where serves must be delivered. The Rules of the Game. The Player in the Ace square is responsible for serving.
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Brewerfan...fan: From Java to .NET and back again
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Comments and insights about the re-building and maintenance of Brewerfan.net, a Milwaukee Brewers fan-based website. Thursday, April 23, 2009. From Java to .NET and back again. I was fortunate enough in college. During summers to have worked for a company. Doing data entry that had room to grow in, from an IT perspective. Since I was going to school for a Management Computer Systems. Java Unfortunately, all that fun came to an end when the bubble burst. I had gotten laid off from two jobs within 5 mo...
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John Leger: Team City Addin for NUnit
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Continuous Improvement In Software Engineering. A Passion for Learning. Sunday, May 3, 2009. Team City Addin for NUnit. Recently at our Virtual Alt.Net. And Eugene Petrenko and all participating attendees who offered their assistance in getting this to work! That they provide support for NU. Nit via an addin. The addin provides on-the-fly test coverage reporting integrated within Team City. The screen to the left appears as an additional chart located within the Settings tab indicating Test Count. It is ...
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Melbourne's Alt.NET Group: September 2011
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Melbourne's Alt.NET Group. An Alt.NET Group located in Melbourne. Now with extra opinion fodder! Dave Burela has agreed to my request to do a lighting talk on the new Windows 8 developments which I'm sure will spark some good conversation! For the evening proceedings we have Simon Segal talking about task based UI's:. The user interface can sometimes be an afterthought for many developers and building applications. I would also like to do a little bit of a retrospective on the group. So please come a...