Wayne Allen's Weblog
pragmatic agility
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Build Servers - Love 'em & Hate 'em
Jim Shore wrote about why he doesn't like Cruise Control. I agree to some extent with his points that the reason teams use it is to catch build errors and deal with "slow" builds. Having implemented both Draco.NET and CruiseControl.NET and toyed with FinalBuilder I am not overly impressed with any of them. My impression is that I spend way to much time fiddling the build server for the value added. I will say that I would still implement a build server for any team for the single reason that "people are fallible". People forget to commit related changes, or add files to CVS, run tests, etc. The build server never does.
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The countdown for the extinction of CDs is about to begin
Are CDs about to become extinct?
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Chefs, Contracting Officers, and Sisyphus: Musings of a Business Analyst
Fellow Guild member Matt Deniston has a great post on the difficulties of analyzing business requirements for an integration project.
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Introducing Agile to a Legacy Project
Brian Marick has another great post. This time he talks about how to transition a team working on legacy code to a more agile approach.
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Discovering MIME types
I've been working on a little application to scratch an itch and I ran across the need to tell whether a certain file was an audio file or not. Rather than having a list of extensions (*.mp3, *.wma, ...) I decided to see if I could dig out the MIME type that Windows tracks.
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Danger Quicksand - Have A Nice Day
David St Lawrence has sent his book "Danger Quicksand - Have A Nice Day" to the printers. You can pre-order the book here.
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SqlConnection Connection String Parameter Keywords & Values
I can never find this info, so I'm filing it away.
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VS.NET Bug Followup - Or is True == 1
Allan Bogh left a comment on my previous post about the VS.NET debugger and quickwatch windows giving erroneous values:
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VS.NET Bug
One of my coworkers discovered the hard way today that in C# == is not the same as .Equals(). She had something like this:
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Getting VS.NET to Recognize @ as T-SQL Variable Prefix
Some of you may be rolling your eyes at this suggestion, but it's been bugging me for months and I finally figured out how to fix it.