About 18 months ago some folks came of with the idea of getting together in the mornings and hacking on some code. And so ‘Code and Coffee’ was born. In Central Ohio, Tim Wingfield got us all going.Fast forward to now and there sometimes 5 or 6 active Code and... [Read More]

Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010 does not provide an easy way to run NUnit test as part of the continuous integration process. Some pretty intense work goes into running those unit tests, and even more is required if build success should depend on unit test success. Download: NUnit Test Execution... [Read More]

The automated/continuous deployment process can be performed in Team Foundation Server 2010 via MSBuild. We can tell MSBuild to ‘deploy on build’ which causes MSBuild to make a call to MSDeploy. To assist MSBuild in working with MSDeploy, we can specify parameters at Build Process Definition Time that are passed... [Read More]

As per normal, CodeMash last week was awesome. I was lucky enough to be chosen as a presenter. The topic, "The Algorithms Still Count". In our world great frameworks and tools abound that help us be productive and build awesome applications that make our customers happy. Many of the inner... [Read More]

I observed a little twitter conversation this week where one person was attempting to decide if “TDD” meant Test Driven Development or Test Driven Design.  After quite a few posts one stuck out: "What I care about nowadays is shipping stuff." Couple this conversation with a blog posting by Nate... [Read More]