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Published Applications AKA _PublishedApplications

Less maintenance. Less work to package during your automated builds. Too easy. Remember Our Old Friend _PublishedWebsites? You’ve probably seen the _PublishedWebsites folder when building websites in automated builds. If not you can stop paying attention...

Published 03-22-2011 9:23 PM by Rob Reynolds

Filed under: HowTo, UppercuT, Tools, .NET
From Zero To Deployed Contest - Winner Announced PLUS Extension To Most Creative

Recently we had a contest to see who could beat my time to get from no code to deployed. Thanks to everyone that participated and everyone that thought about participating in the contest. Most Creative From Zero To Deployed Contest Extended! Unfortunately...

Published 03-21-2011 12:01 AM by Rob Reynolds

Filed under: RoundhousE, UppercuT, Tools, .NET, Events, Challenge
AppHarbor - Azure Done Right AKA Heroku for .NET

Easy and Instant deployments and instant scale for .NET? Awhile back a few of us were looking at Ruby Gems as the answer to package management for .NET . The gems platform supported the concept of DLLs as packages although some changes would have needed...

Published 02-16-2011 6:49 AM by Rob Reynolds

Filed under: NHibernate, Fluent NHibernate, RoundhousE, HowTo, UppercuT, Development, Git, Tools, .NET, Agile, Gems, Challenge
UppercuT v1.2–NuGet Support

For those that have not yet heard, NuGet went v1 recently along with a whole slew of tools from the Microsoft folks. I’ve been lucky to be a part of the NuGet project and see it take shape over the past few months with community input and contributions...

Published 01-23-2011 8:18 PM by Rob Reynolds

Filed under: HowTo, UppercuT, Development, .NET
UppercuT v1.0 and 1.1–Linux (Mono), Multi-targeting, SemVer, Nitriq and Obfuscation, oh my!

Recently UppercuT (UC) quietly released version 1 (in August). I’m pretty happy with where we are, although I think it’s a few months later than I originally planned. I’m glad I held it back, it gave me some more time to think about some things a little...

Published 01-13-2011 1:04 PM by Rob Reynolds

Filed under: UppercuT, .NET, Gems
Herding Code Talks About Nu

Dru and I were recently featured on Herding Code Podcast. In the podcast we talk about everything from package management in general to Nubular (Nu) to other package management systems ( OpenWrap , Bricks , and Horn , although horn was/is slightly different...

Published 08-27-2010 1:22 AM by Rob Reynolds

Filed under: RoundhousE, UppercuT, Development, .NET, Agile, Gems
The Future of .NET Open Source Software Delivery

Imagine we are awhile into the future. How do you get open source releases down to your project so that you can use them? How do you get the products down to your computer so that you can use them? Is it easier or harder than the way we’ve always done...

Published 07-26-2010 1:57 PM by Rob Reynolds

Filed under: NHibernate, RoundhousE, UppercuT, .NET, Gems
How To – UppercuT and Gems

In a previous post I mentioned how I was going to show you how UppercuT (UC) has the ability to make gems stupid simple to create and publish. You ask if gems can get any easier and to that I answer, “Why YES, they can!” How about just filling...

Published 07-20-2010 9:00 AM by Rob Reynolds

Filed under: HowTo, UppercuT, Development, Tools, .NET, Gems
How To – Gems And .NET – Dependencies (References)

In my last post I didn’t mention dependencies. Dependencies are their own animal. They require a couple more things to be in place. Let’s talk about those things. In the .NET world, the dependency for compiled bits is usually an exact version...

Published 07-17-2010 8:04 AM by Rob Reynolds

Filed under: HowTo, UppercuT, Development, .NET, Gems
How To - Gems And .NET

In my last post I showed gems being used for .NET. Now let’s talk about How. Most of this stuff I’ve learned over the past two days, so if I have a mistake here or you have a better idea, please don’t hesitate to offer a better solution...

Published 07-16-2010 10:30 AM by Rob Reynolds

Filed under: HowTo, UppercuT, Development, .NET, Gems
Gems - Package Management For .NET

The Ruby community has enjoyed a great user experience with a package management system they use called Gems. A gem is a package (or a library), compressed with some additional metadata, and can be either source files or binaries. Let’s focus on...

Published 07-15-2010 11:27 PM by Rob Reynolds

Filed under: RoundhousE, SidePOP, UppercuT, Development, Tools, .NET, Gems
Deciding On Features For Open Source

“Open source feature selection is subjective.” An interesting question was posed to me recently at a presentation - “How do you decide what features to include in the [open source] projects you manage?” Is It Objective? I’d like to say that it’s really...

Published 05-15-2010 6:16 PM by Rob Reynolds

Filed under: HowTo, UppercuT, Development
Chicago Alt.NET Presentation Aftermath

Right now I’m on the train on my way back from Chicago. It’s interesting to be drinking a Corona and hanging out in the lounge while I’m watching the miles go by. Chicago was a nice time. I had never been so we decided to vacation in Chicago and see the...

Published 05-15-2010 4:29 PM by Rob Reynolds

Filed under: UppercuT, Events
UppercuT and Mercurial (hg)

I mentioned this awhile back on twitter, but UppercuT (UC) has support for Mercurial for versioning your assemblies. In the settings file, all you need to do it tell UC to use hg. When you build your assemblies, they will use the changeset number in the...

Published 04-21-2010 11:33 PM by Rob Reynolds

Filed under: UppercuT, Development, Tools, .NET
Chuck Norris Welcomes You

Chuck Norris doesn’t program with a keyboard. He stares the computer down until it does what he wants. All things need a name. We’ve tossed around a bunch of names for the framework of tools we’ve been working on, but one we kept coming back to...

Published 04-17-2010 9:57 AM by Rob Reynolds

Filed under: RoundhousE, SidePOP, UppercuT, Development, Tools, .NET

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Published Applications AKA _PublishedApplications

From Zero To Deployed Contest - Winner Announced PLUS Extension To Most Creative

AppHarbor - Azure Done Right AKA Heroku for .NET

UppercuT v1.2–NuGet Support

UppercuT v1.0 and 1.1–Linux (Mono), Multi-targeting, SemVer, Nitriq and Obfuscation, oh my!

Herding Code Talks About Nu

The Future of .NET Open Source Software Delivery

How To – UppercuT and Gems

How To – Gems And .NET – Dependencies (References)

How To - Gems And .NET

Gems - Package Management For .NET

Deciding On Features For Open Source

Chicago Alt.NET Presentation Aftermath

UppercuT and Mercurial (hg)

Chuck Norris Welcomes You