I’ve publicly praised SubSonic and SSMS Tools Pack, but I haven’t posted adequate information on how one installs and uses the tools for their own development. A colleague of mine was lucky enough to inherit my application recently and having this information documented would have come in really handy. All the same, I gave a [...]
I consider myself a neophyte when it comes to continuous integration (CI), but having read up on the topic, “played around” a bit, reviewed a couple of products, and having now incorporated it into our standard development practices, I am starting to hold my own. If nothing else, the benefits of continuous integration are now [...]
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Over the past decade, I’ve primarily used two version control products: Visual Source Safe and Borland StarTeam. I was “forced” into using StarTeam about 5 years ago, but having used it day-in and day-out for so long, I’ve come to recognize it as the superior of the two products (hands down.) Through blogs and open [...]
With the attention that Microsoft, Yahoo! and Google are getting for agreeing on a standard sitemaps protocol, I figured it was probably time I got one in place which meets standard found on sitemaps.org.
Though I’m sure I would have had a lot of fun using the Google Sitemap Generator Python scripts recommended by Google Webmaster Tools, I [...]
Last month, I wrote Manual Code Generation, an article which shared, in my view, the pros and the cons of code generators. In this same article, I took sides and expressed that “I am not a fan of code generation.” My stance came as no surprise to some — particularly my buddy (read archenemy) Jon Galloway. We’ve gone back [...]
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First, what is FeedBurner? At it’s core, FeedBurner republishes blog feeds. This alone isn’t all that exciting, however, the service provides so much more.
FeedBurner’s most attractive feature is it’s analytics. The service keeps track of feed subscribers, applications used to access your feed, where your readers are located and a few other statistics.
Not only does FeedBurner manage [...]
My son was born 41 days ago and I felt it was my parental duty to show him off to the world (or at least to family and friends.) Since I spend most of my day online, I figured a blog would be super convenient (and non-intrusive) way for me to share photos of my [...]