Loren Halvorson's Blog

If your only tool is a hammer...

  • Pop machine mystery

    OK, I live where it can get very cold in the winter, and I've always wondered something whenever I see an outdoor pop machine.

  • A sad story about MSBuild

    We had been looking for a new build tool to build our VS.NET products for a while now. I came from the J2EE world and was delighted to run across NAnt a year or so ago. Then I went to the PDC in Los Angeles and got a glimpse of MSBuild. MSBuild looks really nice. It's a no brainer that MSBuild will immediately become popular when Whidbey releases, so you know it has a bright future. If only MSBuild ran under .NET framework 1.1 we could start using it now instead of NAnt...hmmm...if only...

  • My first blog entry

    Every blog has to start somewhere. Today is the first day of the rest of your blog.