U3 is a technology used install boot software on thumb drives. Companies use this to ensure that some little application will get loaded or something when you plug their thumb drive into your Windows machine. This can be a favorite move of vendors who give away thumb drives at conferences as swag. They want to […]
Read MoreTest lists drive me nuts. I recently recorded a screen cast showing how to pull of CI without the test lists. Here ya go! Here’s a link to the screen cast.
Read MoreI wrote an article recently for the Pluralsight newsletter discussing how to use a tool like Team System to drive positive organizational change. Here’s a pointer to the article.
Read MoreThe venerable Jeremy Miller joined us to talk about YAIJMOSP (Yet Another Impressive Jeremy Miller Open Source Project). This week?s Jeremy project is Story Teller. Jeremy?s other contributions to the community include StructureMap and an obtuse fascination with separation patterns for user interfaces. Story Teller is an alternative for Fitnesse, implemented in .NET and chases […]
Read MoreThere was a recent brouhaha on Twitter and in some blogs about the appropriateness of Team System in small teams. The gist of the discussion was simply that there are a lot of alternatives to TFS and VSTS tooling and many of them come cheaper out of the box. In many cases, free! Duh. I […]
Read MoreMy apologies to all those who have been waiting for the deployment scenario ? I appreciate your patience. My approach to deployments has been a moving target ? as it is starting to firm up a bit, I thought I would write down some thoughts. For more information on this series, please see the introductory […]
Read MoreLogging application exceptions is like getting a new muffler. It isn’t exciting. It isn’t very fulfilling. It just costs time and money. Also, it is something that needs to be done. So, can we make exception logging as frictionless as possible? Roll your own logging library. Repeat the same code a lot in your application […]
Read MoreAbout a year ago, I remember first hearing about Machine.Specifications (github) and trying it out for something I was developing. I liked it right away, especially the way it cut away a lot of the noise involved with writing tests/specifications. I never really ended up using MSpec on things at work. There were lots of […]
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