When I was helping the NUnit team with Linux integration, Charlie tested moving the project to CodePlex. Which was all fine and dandy, except I couldn’t access the source code repository from my Linux box to pull down or push up code. Well, Linux developers needing to access CodePlex rejoice! Teamprise, who makes a handy-dandy…
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.NET Opening with Microsoft in Charlotte
Know .NET? Want to work for a company with incredible benefits and have an instant boost to your resume? We’re looking for a .NET developer for a position based out of Charlotte, NC. If you are interested, please shoot me an email (foyc at cornet design dot com) and let’s chat!
Sweet Revenge against US Airways
Several months ago, US Airways had made a bid for Delta, whom I fly a lot. Now, everyone has their favorite airlines, but something about US Airways from flying them out of Charlotte and St Louis had never sat right with me. Their attitude might have been captured by their company spokesman a few days…
C# Design Patterns
Do you know C#? Do you know Design Patterns? Do you know Design Patterns in C#? Well, heck, you just know everything, don’t ya! For quite a while, there has been a C# Design Patterns Group headed up by Damon Carr. It took a hiatus for a while, but is back in fashion. If you…
It’s times like these that make me love my job
I’m on the road a /lot/ – about every week or so, working onsite with our customers to either help them get new technologies implemented, or help them recover from some pretty interesting situations. This past week I was onsite with a customer who has decided on Team Foundation Server as the corporate standard for…
MSBuild task to recursively delete all of a folder’s contents
Following the Perl mantra of TMTOWTDI – we had a question come up about how to recursively delete a folder’s contents – without deleting the folder itself – using MSBuild. There are several solutions, but if you have a lot of crud to delete, one of the faster ways is to create a target which…
C# and Beginning Programmers / Ruby and Netbeans
Combination of two interesting articles this evening. The first is that there is a new Ruby IDE on the block – NetBeans! Offering Code Completion and Rails support, it should be pretty cool. Here’s the full article. Speaking of programming, Microsoft released a new dev center for – beginning developers! The Beginner Developer Learning Center…
Very disheartening XP post
I was catching up on some of my mailing lists this evening when I came across the following post by the Agile Coach at my former employer: One of our development groups, 4 XP teams, just ended a 3 month period of management imposed overtime. The result was lower velocity, more defects delivered to production,…
Yes, you should care about Daylight Savings Time this year
Every year, we get treated to an extra (or lost) hour of sleep or work when Daylight Savings Time changes. This year, there may be many lost hours of sleep if you aren’t watching your computer systems. That’s because this year DST starts three weeks earlier. Yep, Congress changed when it starts. The problem is…
TFS Power Tool released
WooHoo! The TFS team released a shiny new set of TFS Power Tools. They include some tools that I’m always being asked for onsite, including: A Process Template Editor – for editing those nifty Process Templates that make up the core of Team Projects Check-In packs – they finally included what has to be one…