Christopher Bennage : Tools

Visual Studio Tools for IronRuby

Christopher Bennage — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 13:53:00 GMT

The latest release of IronRuby (1.1.1) includes Visual Studio integration!

From the release notes:

The integration includes

Ruby colorizer and syntax checker

interactive loop window

directory based project

templates for common Ruby applications (including Ruby on Rails 3, Sinatra, Gems and Silverlight based browser scripting app)

Yes, you read that correctly, there is even an out of the box Sinatra project!

Source Control Presentation

Christopher Bennage — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:33:00 GMT

I want to thank everyone that came out to my session at the Jacksonville Code Camp. I had a great time and it was definitely worth the drive.

Here are my slides from the presentation. They are really only useful with the accompanying notes, with are available on the slideshare site. You have to select to “Notes on slide X” tab underneath the presentation to see them. (I wish there was an option to embed the notes, but I didn’t see it.)

I want to acknowledge Joe Kuemerle whose Get Rid of VSS presentation was helpful. Also, Eric Sink whose blog influenced a great deal of the content.

As always, any feedback is greatly appreciated.

Build Notification, Visual Studio, & Snarl

Christopher Bennage — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:54:00 GMT

I’m not talking about build notifications from a build server. Rather, I’m talking about times when you are building locally. It’s a big project and it takes 30 seconds. So… you flip over to a web browser while you wait. Then you forget about it and waste another minute or two until you remember: oh yeah, I was building.

Ok, maybe I’m the only who does that.

Notifications

I recently (re)discovered Snarl. It’s a small app, inspired by Growl for OSX, and is a generic provider for system tray notifications.

I also found this plugin for Visual Studio that notifies you when a build is finished.

Funny enough, all the projects I am working on right now build quickly, so I don’t really need this. I just like it.

Quirk

On Vista, I would get duplicate notifications. No problems on Windows 7.