Category: Agile
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Describe, Design, Decide, Develop – A framework for building things
I was asked recently if I have any general advice on how to maximize product development success, and for such a big question, where do you start? There are many frameworks, principles, tools, and practices in Product Development, but in my effort to synthesize, they point to these steps – describe, design, decide and deliver
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Hack Cafe Idea
I believe in startup communities. Idealistic, some may say but I like to think that I never stopped believing in doing small (or big) things to make the world a better place and startups contribute a lot. And one way to help build those communities is having a space to encourage it. Sharing one idea…
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remove/delete svn folders
Since I’ve been using SVN and stumbled upon this technique I’ve also been using since then This is one of the many (but easiest way) to remove SVN folders (.svn) recursively from a given folder. Effectively “unbinding a folder from SVN“ Follow these easy steps: [more] 1) download this registry file : DeleteSVNFolders.reg (313.00 bytes)…
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Link: Sandcastle Source Code published in Codeplex
After some issues regarding the license and terms of SandCastle in CodePlex, the project is now again available at CodePlex; this time with source code and not just the executable and documentation. You can read more on this at this SandCastle blog post : Sandcastle Source Code published in Codeplex Or go directly to their…
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Subversion Branches, Tags and Merges
I found this great article by Bill Simser on Day-to-day with Subversion where he explains practical use of Subversion branches, tags and merges. As a additional reading it might help if you read the documentation on branching and merging from the SVN Book from here but Bill's explanations made me understand better. And allow me…
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VisualSVN Server
In a previos post on My SubVersion experience I received a comment from Ivan Zhakov of VisualSVN to try out the said product (which by the way is free) and so I did. [more] Not much to say except that it was an amazing experience. No issues with installation, simple but does it wizard steps…
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My Subversion (Version/Source Code Control) Experience
I had a chance to look into subversion today and here are some of my notes. It's a version control system (source code control but it's really more than just code) along side Visual SourceSafe, SourceGear Vault among others. Why subversion [more]of all other is worthy of another post but first one, it's free (Vault…
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Unit Testing Data Access with .NET TransactionScope
I was curious how to maintain my database at a consistent state while unit testing (technically integration testing already – but since it uses unit testing framework as they say the lines are terminologies are getting blurry) so I looked around for "database unit testing" write ups. It turns out that [more]mbUnit has [Rollback] which…
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Enterprise Library 4.0 March 2008 CTP released
Just a quick Accouncement relay from the Patterns and Practices team. Enterprise Library 4.0 March 2008 CTP released. Check out from [more]George Melniks post for a short intro or check it out directly from here It's interesting to note that Enterprise Library 4.0 has the Allow Partially-Trusted Caller attribute (APTCA) on all assemblies which prompted…
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Model View Presenter – Building from Scratch
Rodolfo Cerrada, one of the best minds in software development that I know of just opened up his "Learn by Example" blog with a a simple to understand but comphrehensive post on the Model View Presenter pattern. Including a downloadable solution for everyone to explore. Check out the article with following link: Model View Presenter…