Blog
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New Domain, htaccess and Text Drive
So, first things first, my blog has moved. Its now at www.mikebroberts.com/blog/ .
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CruiseControl.NET goes one-oh
This week I'm really proud to blog that we've released version 1.0 of CruiseControl.NET . It's taken 3 years, but I believe it's been worth the wait. One of the key reasons I work on the project is that I need a tool in my day-to-day work that fulfils the features we try to implement in CruiseControl.NET, and I'm always happy when I install it, setup a project and see it running.
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Sony Vaio T2XP
4 months ago I bought my latest computer - a Sony Vaio T2XP laptop. It was Jim Webber's fault - when I met him earlier in the year he pulled out an earlier model (the TR) which completely dwarfed my Dell D600. I immediately challenged him as to its practicality, and almost as soon as I had was forced to eat my words. My model, being somewhat more up to date, has a fast but power-savvy processor (1.2 GHz ULV), 1GB RAM (upgraded from the standard 512MB), 60GB hard disk, an internal DVD re-writer, firewire, USB, etc.
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Automated SSH with passwords
A few months ago, I talked about setting up automated Subversion access using SSH. This is especially important if you are using an automated build server. (Couldn't resist the shameless plug :) )
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PDC, DDD and MVP
So 3 acronymns and 3 Microsoft developer community oriented updates.
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CruiseControl.NET 1.0 RC1 Released
We've decided to break with our traditions on the CruiseControl.NET project and try to actually release a version 1.0! We're not quite there yet, but have just released our first release candidate for 1.0 .
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Madrid and Photos
Last weekend I visited Spain for first time by taking a short trip to Madrid. It was really good to get away for a few days. Especially good was the food, weather and extrememly civilised drinking hours! (i.e. there aren't any, as far I could tell)
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Live 8 and Pink Floyd
The last few weeks haven't been all bad. In fact they've been a bit of a rollercoaster. Just 5 days before being on the bombed Aldgate train I settled in for the day at a mate's house to watch complete coverage of the London Live 8 concert.
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My experience of the London Bombings
On July 7th, a week and a half ago, I was on a Circle Line Underground train, in the rear (6th) carriage. Just before arriving at Aldgate station there was a very loud bang, the train stopped very quickly, the lights went out and fair amount of dust filled the air. The shock of the bang and the speed of all these events meant a few people screamed or gasped, but very quickly everyone on my carriage realised we were all OK, and just confused about what had happened. I had seen a quick flash at the time of the noise, and my best guess was that we had de-railed, or there had been some kind of electrical problem, causing a big power surge of some kind.
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Extending a .NET Development Tree - Versioning
The next area we're going to look at is adding support for versioning. The .NET documentation has some fairly clear guidelines about versioning which you can read here.