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Automated builds are an essential part of Continuous Integration. Definition commonly found is

If you are a fan of electronic music, and happen to find yourself in a place where there’s not a single radio station playing electronic music – this is the URL to remember: http://www.di.fm/

I had to look into a project that submits large files to WCF service. Implementation is based on data chunking. This is a good approach when your client and server are not both based on WCF, bud different technologies.

This is something trivial, yet got me to think for a little. I had two checksums, one received from a client invoking a service, another one calculated once data sent into service is received. Checksums are plain arrays of bytes. I wanted to have comparison to be expressed as simple as possible. Quick google search brought me to a post that dealt with the same issue. But linq expression was too chatty and I think the solution was a bit muddy.

Robert C. Martin gave a nice presentation on InfoQ, highly recommended.

Yesterday I watched Food Inc. documentary movie. And this morning, hours after watching it, on the radio they announce salads recall – Salmonella bacteria contamination. Wonderful. Another proof of house mass production (and not just food) can go and goes wrong. The movie is highly recommended.

Nice to see BDD spreading quickly around. Reminds me how about two ago I wanted to switch our company from ASP.NET web forms to MVC, to allow better introduction into testability. This video just reminded me how correct that assumption was. And these days, with the tools like MSpec and support out of box by R# and VS.NET – it’s a must. Enjoy the video.

Buy vs. Build dilemma is quite common in software development. Based on degree of customization, decisions are made. But is it just degree of customization? As a developer, the urge to build and will to prove that “we can pull it off” is very strong. What I find often is that another dilemma exists, similar to the mentioned one, but rooted in restrictions related to time and will to go above the “regular known” – Learn vs. Build.