ElegantCode

A software blog

10 May
2004

Newark to Boise Route

I have got a proposed route for my trip from Newark to Boise on my new R100GSPD. Here is a map of my proposed route. If you are even close to the green line, drop me a line. Maybe I’ll buy you a beer. This route takes me through West Virginia and also gets me […]

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7 May
2004

Parsing .csproj with nAnt

The Problem Using the solution task in nAnt, I need to be able to distribute non-buildable project items into my build environment. You know the problem. My project has an XSD in it, or my project directory has a README.TEXT that may not even be a project item. With our automated build process, these items […]

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4 May
2004

Tablet PC

So, in preparing for my trip to NJ, to ride home on the bike and blog the entire way, I have procured the use of a Toshiba Tablet PC so as not to carry a full blown laptop. So far, kinda cool little unit. I haven’t actually tried writing yet, but will let you know. […]

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3 May
2004

I just bought a new bike.

Taking it old school, baby. 1994 R100GS/PD Airhead. Here is a picture of the bike. I havent’t seen it yet myself.  I can’t wait. I bought this bike throught the Adventure Rider forums. So far it has been a very easy and fun experience. The current owner is Andrew Farake of the Adventurer’s Workshop. The Internet […]

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30 Apr
2004

Cruise Control.Net 0.6

I just finished installing Cruise Control.Net 0.6 on our build box (A virtual machine, BTW), and I am very happy! The new Dashboard is excellent and installation was much easier this time around since I knew what I was doing. OPur master build script uses nAntContrib‘s mkiisdir task to make a VROOT for every new CC.Net project on the […]

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29 Apr
2004

major.minor[.build[.revision]]

Microsoft says that major.minor[.build[.revision]] is the version schema for assemblies. Shouldn’t it be: major.minor[.revision[.build]] ? Well, I just wrote an app that is underpinned by System.Version which uses major.minor[.build[.revision]] and I find MS’s logic so confounding here that I actually considered backing out their Version class for one of my own. I ranted about System.Version […]

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