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[ANN] Chicago ALT.NET shows Rake and Albacore

I haven't mentioned our meetings here in a while but our group has been going strong and enthusiastic all this time. Tomorrow, March 10 th our topic will be build scripts for .Net projects using Rake and Albacore. I've been using Rake and a little...

Published 03-09-2010 5:35 PM by sergiopereira

Filed under: Ruby, Automation, alt.net, Announcement, Community

Code coverage reports with NCover and MSBuild

I've been doing a lot of static analysis on our projects at work lately. As part of that task we added NCover to our automated build process. Our build runs on Team Build (TFS) and is specified in an MSBuild file. We wanted to take code metrics very...

Published 02-09-2010 12:11 PM by sergiopereira

Filed under: .NET, Tips-and-Tricks, Automation, UnitTesting

Mozilla Add-Ons in Chicago

Later this month I'll be attending the Mozilla Add-Ons Meetup in Chicago. I'm continually impressed with the extensibility of Mozilla applications and the amazing things people are doing with it. I'm interested in both the extensibility model...

Published 09-17-2009 12:38 PM by sergiopereira

Filed under: Automation, JavaScript, Announcement, Community

Generated by a tool, not for human consumption

A few years ago I had an interesting discussion with some of my then coworkers about the XML comments in our code. XML comments were useful in some cases because we were writing some libraries to be shared with many of our applications. We kept the DLLs...

Published 01-30-2009 12:06 PM by sergiopereira

Filed under: .NET, Automation, review

Cruise and Agile discussed - videos forthcoming

Update: The videos of the presentation and discussion have been posted. This month's Chicago ALT.NET meeting was pretty awesome and it was all caught in video. As soon as I have some time to do some post-production on the raw material (read, just...

Published 08-15-2008 9:05 AM by sergiopereira

Filed under: .NET, Tools, Development, Automation, alt.net, review, Community

Excel is the business format, automate it

One thing I realized when working in large companies is that Excel is the true data exchange file format. That what the business types exchange among themselves and how they like to persist any kind of lists or anything that needs to be formatted like...

Published 06-09-2008 10:35 PM by sergiopereira

Filed under: Ruby, Tips-and-Tricks, Automation

Unescape my Strings

Since I started using Visual Studio 2005 and now 2008 it bugs me that strings in the debug windows (Immediate, Watch, Locals, Autos, etc) are automatically escaped in C# syntax (well, at least in C# projects.) Let's assume we are writing some code...

Published 05-07-2008 12:47 PM by sergiopereira

Filed under: .NET, Tips-and-Tricks, Automation

XHTML Validation Script using Ruby

In one of the projects I'm working on we produce a number of XHTML documents and we want these documents to be valid XHTML 1.0 Strict. As an example of how automation will set you free , I promptly thought that there was no way I would be submitting...

Published 04-02-2008 9:31 PM by sergiopereira

Filed under: Ruby, Automation

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