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Recently I was creating a new MVC4 application and of course I wanted to use Ninject as my IoC container. The first thing I did was to download and install the following NuGet packages: Ninject.MVC3 Ninject.Extensions.Conventions CommongServiceLocator.NinjectAdapter After I got these setup I opened up...
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“If only there was some way to quickly and silently install applications and tools on my windows machine.” Chocolatey is kind of like an apt-get, but for Windows. It is a machine level package manager that is built on top of NuGet command line and the NuGet infrastructure. Jason Jarrett recently described...
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There is an inherent danger in using electronic tools to manage a process like software development, and one that almost always comes true - the tool defines your process, it doesn't enable it. When people encounter limitations in the software tool, they begin to accept that these are limitations...
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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 to happen to have long term use for the entire...
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On March 31, 1998, around 10am, my then-manager Alex and I left the office we shared together and headed over to Electronics Boutique. Alex and I were both developers working for the IT department of an up and coming software company called PC DOCS. In those days, we didn’t have a corporate firewall...
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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) to the possibility of Microsoft releasing...
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Today I was trying to wrap some code in some tests (I got lazy and did not create the tests first… shot me). What I was trying to ensure was that my event handlers I passed into a method were actually being wired up for usage. Now I searched around the net for a while to see if there was...
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I was recently pointed to an InfoQ article titled Do Story Points Relate to Complexity or Time? It mentions that some teams estimate by a matter of complexity versus how long in effort something will take. Mike Cohn , who wrote the original post It’s Effort, Not Complexity , makes some very good points...
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I came across a great video link yesterday, entitled “ Performance, Feedback, Revision ”. It’s a Canadian rapper named Baba Brinkman covering the theory of evolution and the work of Charles Darwin, and he equates evolution with how he writes his lyrics, Performance, Feedback, Revision. As I listened...
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As a general rule all software development teams will create technical debt during the construction of their product. Creating this debt is in no way an indicator that the team is bad or not talented, but rather is an indicator that they understand that there are always tradeoffs when building...
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This past Saturday I had an early morning coffee with a friend. He’s an entrepreneurial type – a big thinker who moves at a fast pace and is always thinking ahead. One question he asked of me, “Are you playing checkers or chess?”. The question was asked around business and career but I could not...
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I’m currently reading Thomas Sowell’s A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles . As the title suggests, it deals with certain fundamental differences in the way we see the world and how that affects our political views. Don’t worry, I’m not going to delve into politics in the...
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This past week I was taking a look at one of our build scripts as it appeared to be taking a bit longer than everyone wanted. Because I am very close to the file (authored about 50% of it) I decided that in place of just diving in and looking at the raw source I would instead run the script with the...
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If your application needs extension points what do you do? Building a plugin based system is not cutting edge, it is not rocket science. However, it does take a little effort and can be a bit painful depending on your implementation. The guys at MS (Glen Block and crew) has been working on...
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FuncWorks, LLC ’s first XNA game, IncaBlocks , is now available on Xbox Live Indie Games (XBLIG)! This game represents the many hours and weekends Dylan , Cicelie and myself worked the past several months. Looking back at SVN, I started this as a side project to ROCS around July 30th. Shortly thereafter...