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Krabby Patties

Having just finished up a lunch composed mostly of a couple of Boca burgers I thought I would pass on a “tip” for those with children who are fans of Cartoon Network and specifically SpongeBob SquarePants.  We keep a couple of boxes of Boca Burgers…

Day of .NET Swag

Day of .NET Swag

I agree, Day of .NET Rocked! It was definitely worth the 3-1/2 hour drive each way and the overnight stay in a hotel.  John , Josh , and Jason  put on a great event and  Mark Miller is a fantastic speaker.  I will post my notes for each of the…

More fun with CruiseControl.NET, NAnt and Subversion Another method for getting the Subversion Revision Number in NAnt

Earlier this week I got our build server versioning our builds using the standard x.x.x.x nomenclature where the first two sets are major and minor versions, which are manually set and updated when appropriate, the third number is the build number as…

Backronym

I was reading Dennis Forbes’ post Interesting Facts About Domain Names (via Seth Godin ) when I came upon the following excerpt: Stepping up to four letter sequences, choosing among the 456,976 combinations, yields a vastly greater…

The Build Master Microsoft's Software Configuration Management Best Practices

The Build Master Microsoft's Software Configuration Management Best Practices

I read The Build Master: Microsoft’s Software Configuration Management Best Practices (Addison-Wesley Microsoft Technology) by Vincent Maraia this evening.  It provides a nice glimpse into Microsoft’s build process for their NT operating systems…

Pragmatic Unit Testing in C with NUnit by Andrew Hunt & David Thomas

Pragmatic Unit Testing in C with NUnit by Andrew Hunt & David Thomas

Recently I’ve discovered there are two kinds of technical books: Big honkin’ tech books that I start reading with the best of intentions, get two chapters into and wind up as part of the psuedo-furniture pile of books beside my chair for long periods…

Location! Location! Location!

No, I’m not going to discuss buying your next home (well, maybe a little bit), but instead I want to write a bit about selecting a spot for your home office.  While your home office space is not technically a tool, it might be considered the best (or…

Dayton .NET Developers Group meeting, Jim Holmes' Open Source Test Tools Presentation, and more

I just got home from the Dayton .NET Developer’s Group March meeting. Jim Holmes gave a great presentation on Open Source Test Tools including NUnit, MBUnit, Fitnesse, Rhino.Mock, ZaneBug and Watir.  It was a great presentation and if you get a…

Technical Writing, Experts, Reviews & Proofreading

Technical Writing, Experts, Reviews & Proofreading

Last weekend I read two books, one had to do with developing using web standards and another was Professional Development with Web APIs : Google, eBay, Amazon.com, MapPoint, FedEx (Denise M. Gosnell, WROX). I was prepared for the API book to be a…

Update to Dayton-Cincinnati Code Camp Notes

I previously posted my notes from the Dayton-Cincinnati Code Camp that took place in January.  In it I wrote the following as part of my notes about Brian Sherwin’s session on SQL Server Reporting Services: Debug Local run Individual report…