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Running your TeamCity builds from PowerShell for any Git branch(www.laurentkempe.com)

submitted by laurentkempelaurentkempe(317) 3 months, 21 days ago

I love TeamCity and use it since a while to automate my build/release processes. As human we should never do the work a machine can do, we have certainly better and more interesting things to do. The habit I saw in the different projects I worked for is to create new TeamCity builds for the branches you work on. It take quite some work to do, even with templates… So I came with another way of doing it. It is leverage Git, PowerShell and the possibility to run TeamCity builds by “Accessing Server by HTTP” read more...

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Writing Software as a Kaizen Event(www.stephenforte.net)

submitted by KodefuGuruKodefuGuru(2818) 7 months, 6 days ago

The Lean Manufacturing movement is built around the concept of Kaizen, or Japanese for “improvement” or “change for the better.” Last week at the first even Lean and IT summit in Paris, France, I heard once or twice about the concept of writing code as a Kaizen event. Software Kaizen goes a step further than refactoring. read more...

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The Rise of F#(www.trelford.com)

submitted by dpetersondpeterson(4397) 8 months, 13 days ago

Phil Trelford summarizes the rise of F# in the enterprise, and shares some impressive numbers relating to demand for F# in the job market. For anyone looking to broaden their horizons and choose a new path, F# is one to look at. read more...

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Automapper now has it's own website, check out this awesome tool!(automapper.org)

submitted by dpetersondpeterson(4397) 9 months, 4 days ago

Automapper, the object-object mapper for .Net now has it's own website. Check out the documentation and grab the code; this tool takes all the work out of mapping objects in .Net. It's especially useful in your data access layer where you may need to map entity objects with data transfer objects, or perhaps for importing/exporting data. read more...

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Dependency Injection Framework Speedtest(philipm.at)

submitted by dpetersondpeterson(4397) 9 months, 15 days ago

Philip Mateescu shares with us an in-depth and well documented speed test of Autofac v2.4.5.724, Castle.Windsor v2.5.3, Ninject v2.2.0.0, Spring.Net v1.3.1, StructureMap v2.6.1, and Microsoft Unity v2.1.0.0. Spoiler alert, Unity loses big time ;-) read more...

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TeamCity - When 1 Build Agent just isn’t enough(www.diaryofaninja.com)

submitted by wiredonewiredone(917) 10 months, 1 day ago

TeamCity is one of the greatest tools to hit the Continuous Integration world, with free licensing for 20 build configurations and an easy to use interface it ticks all the right boxes (not to mention ease of use for Windows Users) – but once you splash out on an Enterprise license and grow your installation to house many build configurations you start to want more power, and this is when a second build agent is your ticket to freedom. read more...

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Hadi Hariri on CouchDB for .NET Developers on 03 May 2011(europevan.blogspot.com)

submitted by JanVanRyswyckJanVanRyswyck(2724) 1 year, 1 month ago

We’re very happy to announce that Hadi Hariri agreed to join us for doing a talk on CouchDB, showing us how to incorporate this excellent NoSQL document database into .NET applications. read more...

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Robert Greyling on Spark View Engine on 12 April 2011(europevan.blogspot.com)

submitted by JanVanRyswyckJanVanRyswyck(2724) 1 year, 1 month ago

We’re very pleased to announce that Robert Greyling agreed to do a talk on the Spark View Engine. read more...

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Another look at Continuous Delivery/Continuous Deployment(www.diaryofaninja.com)

submitted by wiredonewiredone(917) 1 year, 2 months ago

I take a look at some quotes made at a conference by some of the leaders and innovators in the continuous delivery space - Martin Fowler, Neal Ford and Evan Bottcher. read more...

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A simple approach to hydrating the C# MongoDB Driver Objects(www.lostechies.com)

submitted by hgarciahgarcia(1534) 1 year, 2 months ago

How to add some extension methods to the BSon object to make your life simpler. read more...

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IronRuby and IronPython to run by the Community, IR Tools for VS ++(www.ironshay.com)

submitted by shayfriedmanshayfriedman(1411) 1 year, 7 months ago

So much going on in the DLR world - IronRuby and IronPython are officially handed over to the community, IronRuby 1.1.1 is released including IronRuby tools for Visual Studio and compatibility with Ruby 1.9.2. Good times! read more...

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7 Freely available E-Books/Guides I found essential for .NET Programme(amazedsaint.blogspot.com)

submitted by BognitBognit(2125) 1 year, 8 months ago

Freely available E-Books/Guides I found essential for .NET Programme read more...

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Interview w/author of "IronRuby Unleashed", Shay Friedman(ironlanguages.net)

submitted by just3wsjust3ws(560) 1 year, 10 months ago

Shay "IronShay" Friedman sat down with the crew from IronLanguages.net for a chat on IronRuby, his new book and why C# developers should take a look at what's going on in Ruby. read more...

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OXM - Object XML Mapping framework(code.google.com)

submitted by deluciadelucia(60) 1 year, 11 months ago

OXM is a framework for transforming .NET objects from/to XML. It features: - Full control over the generated XML. - POCO approach i.e. no attributes to pollute your domain entities. - Fluent DSL for defining the mapping. - Strongly typed which is good for refactoring. - No reflection. read more...

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Advanced Query Options with Lucene.Net(dimecasts.net)

submitted by dwhittakerdwhittaker(13.1k) 2 years, 7 months ago

Taking a look at more advanced ways to query a Lucene.Net Index. This will include the various ways you can setup your index for searching and how to do boolean searches. read more...

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Using Reflection TO invoke members(dimecasts.net)

submitted by dwhittakerdwhittaker(13.1k) 2 years, 8 months ago

Taking a look at how to use the reflection to invoke members on an object. Reflection can allow you to call methods, properties, etc of any scope on an object. This can be a very, very useful tool for the tool-belt for the times this is needed. read more...

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