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• Extending a .NET Development Tree - Basic Distributions

  April 7, 2005 tech

  If you read my thoughts on setting up a .NET development tree you might be interested to know how we can extend these ideas to gain even more value from automation and configuration on our .NET projects. This series of entries should help you with these investigations.

• CruiseControl.NET 0.9 Released

  April 4, 2005 tech

  A bit of a late night blog this, but its worth it. We've just finished off CruiseControl.NET 0.9!

• Leaving New Zealand

  April 1, 2005 life

  I have moved back from New Zealand to the UK. Its been a very hard decision to make for a whole bunch of reasons, most of which I don't want to go into here, but I did want to write a little about my experiences there.

• Scaling Continuous Integration talk in London

  April 1, 2005 tech

  Next week Steve Freeman and I will be presenting a session in London on Scaling Continuous Integration. This is basically about how you can get the benefits of CI on larger projects.

• Tree Surgeon 1.0

  April 1, 2005 tech

  This week I released 'version 1' of Tree Surgeon, my application that will generate a .NET development tree for you.

• On Subversion

  March 4, 2005 tech

  I've recently started using the Subversion Source Control system a lot more. It really has got pretty stable now and I feel happy about telling people that they should consider migrating to Subversion from CVS (or in fact pretty much any other Source Control tool) as soon as they can. Atomic checkins, offline features, scalibility, useful and easy tags and branching, and lots of other good stuff all make it a compelling tool.

• Automated SSH authentication on Windows

  March 3, 2005 tech

  I use a few remote UNIX servers. Some host web content, some are Source Control repositories. All of them I access using SSH either for an interactive shell, or as a tunnel for applications like Subversion, CVS or rsync.

• How to setup a .NET Development Tree Wrapup

  March 3, 2005 tech

  Update

• Goodbye Web Forms

  February 22, 2005 tech

  Today I committed the final changes to a large chunk of CruiseControl.NET work that I'm rather proud of, namely removing all Web Forms code from the Dashboard Web App.

• find and grep

  February 11, 2005 tech

  So remember my new toy - the command line? Well, I didn't just drop it after a few days.