April 2006 - Posts
Bill Wagner gave a great presentation at the Dayton.NET Developers Group last night. Jim Holmes beat me to the punch - actually I was waiting the appropriate 24 hours before calling dibbs since Jim is the organizer of the group. You can read Jim's commentary along with my comments here . Technorati Tags: Bill Wagner , .NET Community , Dayton OH Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | kick it! | live it!
A couple of days ago I was wondering if there were rules about that sort of thing. Apparently there are rules ! Thanks, Phil Haack , for the explanation. Technorati Tags: Blogging Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | kick it! | live it!
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 supplied by CruiseControl.NET at build time and the fourth digit (the revision number) was just 0. All the AssemblyInfo.cs files in each project are updated with the version info and I now zip up a distributable copy of the code and apply the version...
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 availability -- perhaps the set is a bit too large for domain speculators and their unlikely success with random sequences -- with 97,786 showing as open. A quick check verifies that most are legitimately available. "Choice" domains, such as AGJV.com , EIYK.com , GZVW...
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 from an insider's perspective. Reviewing these best practices is supposed to help the reader in setting up his/her own company's build process. While much of the advice does apply to any sized development team, I don't think the specific process described...