Sharp Learning Curve Ahead

It’s never good when your boss appears in your office unexpectedly to tell you that the deadline you thought was a few days out is actually tomorrow. It’s also not good when it happens right after your analyst informs you that the system you thought was producing valid output was actually built on an oversimplification that was only just discovered. It’s especially bad when the model you’re working against is supposed to be crawling a payroll system with insufficient metadata to support the busi... [More]

Tags: nhibernate

Have you ever heard some truism or principle, immediately thought, “Exactly! It’s so simple and obvious!” then looked around at your colleagues and exchanged some knowing laughter. Maybe you even made fun of the poor bastards who didn’t get it? “Huh-huh-huh, yeah, like this guy, Durfin, he’ll NEVER GET IT!” Well, whenever I used to hear things like “don’t use a hammer to drive screws”, “use the right tool for the job”, etc., I always reacted like that. Like a terd. Never bothering to really ref... [More]

Tags: .net, erlang, amqp, xmpp, wcf

As I said in the intro, this series of posts is all about me trying to find a solution that I like for continuous integration. It’s about the search. It’s about the learning process. It’s about seeing how many times I run into a wall before getting out of the maze or discovering there’s no end. The title is a dead give-away but in case you missed it, my journey begins using trying out git for source control. Goal Last week I decided it was time to actually look into what it would take to ge... [More]

Tags: continuous integration, git

For a little over a month now, I’ve been contributing to an open source project started and architected by Evan Hoff. After the week of the project, I started bugging him about when I could blog about the project. The project is called the Bourne Framework, and it’s changing the way I write code*. The one thing I should make abundantly clear is that Bourne is new and subject to change. The good news is that it’s also very usable in its current state. Technology Stack A lot... [More]

Tags: c#, bourne framework

There are some things that I love about software development. I love OpenSource (especially the GPL free kind … too many calories) and I love neat tools. Git is both of those things. GitHub is a very cool way to write open source code socially, and use git. The short of it is, I wanted CI, CC.Net is awesome and simple, but to get it working with GitHub, I had to use an interval trigger and frankly, that’s just not cool enough. So I wrote a CC.Net trigger that checks GitHub via their sweet, sweet... [More]

Tags: source control, git, github, cc.net, continuous integration