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SDLC Progress
01 September 08 08:07 PM | cjlotz | 1 comment(s)
I've been spending the last month or two getting the SDLC procedures and infrastructure in place for the Silverlight release of our company's Enterprise Physical Asset Management system.  We were already using Team Foundation Source Control but wanted to adopt SCRUM as our development methodology and improve on some of our development practices such as using Continuous Integration , Test Driven Development, better Work Item Management and enhanced quality through Code Reviews, Check...
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.NET Continuous Integration Servers
01 August 08 07:19 AM | cjlotz | 2 comment(s)
It seems like I spend a lot of time on this blog talking about Continuous Integration   Well, in my new job one of first my tasks was to setup a CI server.  Instead of using CruiseControl.NET again I decided to spend some time investigation other .NET alternatives.  The idea was to see whether there was not as easier way to setup the CI environment.  I've long wanted to investigate Team Foundation Build and I've also heard some great things about JetBrains TeamCity - the...
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AnkhSVN 2.0 Released!
11 July 08 01:25 PM | cjlotz | 1 comment(s)
Just a short post to make people, who are using Subversion, aware of the v2.0 release of AnkSVN - " the open source Subversion plugin for Visual Studio" .  The biggest new feature in my mind is that it has been rewritten to run as a VS SCC plugin.  Screenshots are available here .  I've been a happy VisualSVN user up till now but this new release may just convince me to make a switch.  Great work!  Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit...
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ReSharper 4.0 Released!
10 June 08 05:50 AM | cjlotz | with no comments
ReSharper 4.0 is finally released !!  See the Features and What's New . Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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NDepend
12 May 08 09:24 AM | cjlotz | with no comments
I've said it before and I want to say it again. If you are serious about code quality and you want to use static code analysis to help you improve on your code's quality, you just have to look at getting yourself a NDepend license. Patrick Smacchia, the developer of NDepend, has just posted another excellent article that highlights some of the major areas where NDepend can help you pinpoint problematic areas in your code base. Because of NDepend's excellent Code Query Language , you are...
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In Search of Content Collaboration Tools
29 April 08 02:14 PM | cjlotz | 2 comment(s)
We went through an exercise in the past month or so of trying to select the best platform to use in our company to engage the development communities using mediums like forums/blogs and for managing the content surrounding our development methodology, coding standards and processes through using a wiki. We are currently using two different open source products - MoinMoin as a wiki and phpBB for developer related forums. These products work fine, but the idea was to see whether there are better alternatives...
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UI Prototyping Tools
08 April 08 09:28 AM | cjlotz | 3 comment(s)
Jeff Atwood's post about UI-First Software Development came just about at the right time as I was looking for some tooling to assist me with a quick prototype that I had to create for a reference application we are building. For the purposes of this application we needed something more formal than paper prototypes and the tooling should be available for use in different projects within our company. My favourite UI prototyping tool is MockupScreens . It is an inexpensive tool that allows you to...
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Feeding my addiction!
22 February 08 06:33 AM | cjlotz | 2 comment(s)
I've been trying to hold on for too long now. It has been close to 3 VERY long months without it. I don't think I can take it any longer. I need to go get it now - ReSharper 4.0 EAP ! Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Izindaba #21
07 December 07 05:35 AM | cjlotz | with no comments
Time for another weekly round-up of developer news that focuses on .NET, agile and general development content. (Izindaba = Zulu for News). .NET Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework CTP - News from the BCL Team on the CTP and newly created Parallel Computing Developer Center . ASP.NET MVC Framework (Part 2): URL Routing and ASP.NET MVC Framework (Part 3): Passing ViewData from Controllers to Views - Scott Guthrie continues with his series on the new ASP.NET MVC Framework. CTP coming soon! ASP...
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Izindaba #20
30 November 07 05:48 AM | cjlotz | with no comments
Time for another weekly round-up of developer news that focuses on .NET, agile and general development content. (Izindaba = Zulu for News). .NET .NET Web Product Roadmap (ASP.NET, Silverlight, IIS 7) - Scott Guthrie announces the upcoming initiatives and releases for .NET web development for the months ahead. Silverlight 2.0 Beta with Go-live license Q1 2008! So glad they decided to rename to 2.0 and not stick with 1.1. Advanced C# - Free chapter from the C# 3.0 in a Nutshell book published by O'Reilly...
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FxCop
23 November 07 10:20 AM | cjlotz | with no comments
In previous posts about Code Metrics and Code Reviews , I explored some metrics and techniques that I felt should form part of any good software quality control process. One of the tools that I mentioned is FxCop. In this post I take a closer look at FxCop. I start by looking at how FxCop works and how you can fit it into your development process. I then consider the different rule sets to use and look at how you can utilise FxCop to guide your VS 2003/2005/2008 development efforts. I finish off...
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Izindaba #19
23 November 07 05:06 AM | cjlotz | with no comments
Time for another weekly round-up of developer news that focuses on .NET, agile and general development content. (Izindaba = Zulu for News). .NET Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 shipped! - Just in case you missed the announcement Any idea on how long we will have to wait for our MSDN Subscriber DVD's? Hidden Gems in Visual Basic 2008 - The top 10 new features according to the Visual Basic Team. Nov 17th Links: ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, VS 2008, .NET 3.5, IIS7, Silverlight - Scott Guthrie...
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Izindaba #18
16 November 07 05:06 AM | cjlotz | with no comments
Time for another weekly round-up of developer news that focuses on .NET, agile and general development content. (Izindaba = Zulu for News). .NET ASP.NET MVC Framework (Part 1) - Scott Guthrie builds an e-commerce store application to illustrate how to use the cool new ASP.NET MVC Framework So Many Tools - So Little Time! - Jesse Liberty tries to summarize when to use what tools for doing Silverlight 1.0 and 1.1 development. Code Metrics as Check-in Policy - The Code Analysis Team shows how to prevent...
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Izindaba #17
09 November 07 05:11 AM | cjlotz | with no comments
Time for another weekly round-up of developer news that focuses on .NET, agile and general development content. .NET Top 10 things to know about VS 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 - Excellent post from Daniel Moth that brings together all the links to the yummy goodness that is .NET 3.5 and VS 2008 Debugger Visualisers for MethodInfo, DynamicMethod and MethodBase - Roy Osherove provides some cool debugger visualizers to view the IL generated for run-time DynamicMethods . How are value types implemented...
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Izindaba #16 Reloaded
01 November 07 09:42 PM | cjlotz | with no comments
Time for another weekly round-up of developer news that focuses on .NET, agile and general development content. As Windows Live Writer has kindly overwritten Izindaba #15 with the new Izindaba #16, I am re-posting the Izindaba #16 content. .NET Optimizing the Silverlight Install Experience - Scott Guthrie shows how to include the Silverlight install directly from your own site. Use the ASP.NET MVC Framework to Write Web Apps without Viewstate or Postbacks - Article by Jeffrey Palermo (code samples...
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