Oddly enough, just the other day I watched this webcast about how the enterprise Library is being applied "in the wild." One of the guys on the video talked about releasing a data tier generator he wrote. Well, today, I saw this user sample come across,… more »

A minor revision of CruiseControl.NET was released today. Here's the release notes. It looks like it offers a few new things that are pretty cool. You can now install the service more than once, allowing a name to be given to the service. That's cool. It… more »

MetaSapiens, via Fabrice Marguerie, has released their first product, and it's free! It's a cool component for managing URLs called PageMethods. It makes using URLs much easier, or at least it looks like it does. We ran into these same issues, and our s… more »

I'm finally making some progress on my Podcast backlog. At one point, I was up to almost 100 hours of back log. I started pairing down the list and listening to some, and now I'm down to less than 45 hours. While I've been going through them, I've final… more »

Jeremy Miller has another good post about what constitutes quality unit tests. He says one thing that I've seen debated elsewhere. Unit tests should be order independent. Steven Smith has a post arguing that a unit test relying on another one might not b… more »

Joel Spolsky nails it. There's more to his article than Hungarian Notation, but that's what I found that I really liked. If you don't, you should read Joel. He has some great articles and is fairly well known. Not to mention, he's got a great first name!… more »

I just recently posted more details about how I use my Nant script to do some pretty complicated things with Nant, but if you want a nice introduction to build files, you should read Dave Bost's article. It was supposed to be in the May/June issue of CoD… more »

Stephen Cawood has a nice post describing what MCMS is - from 1999. I remember when MCMS was Ncompass Labs, and one of their sales guys came in and taught us how to use it back in 2000. Since then, I've changed jobs and am still working with it! Oh yeah.… more »

Mihir Solanski has the post I have been looking for! He shows how to take your current nant configuration and generate a schema file for it, and if you have NantContrib installed, you'll get intellisense for those tasks too! Thanks for the tip, Mihir! I'… more »

There's a nice post over at Public Void about deploying the Enterprise Library. I think I'll be using this over the summer, so this'll come in handy. more »