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When we develop libraries (whether internal or public), it helps to have a rapid ability to make changes and test them in a consuming application. Building Setup the library with automatic versioning and a nuspec Setup library assembly version to auto increment build and revision AssemblyInfo –> [assembly: AssemblyVersion("1.0.*")] This autoincrements ......

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Note: in this article when I refer to a commit, I mean the commit you plan to share with the rest of the team, if you have local commits that you plan to amend/combine, I am referring to the final result. In time you will find these easier to do as you develop, however, all of these are valuable before checking in! The pre commit review is a nice time ......

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In the show LOST, the Swan Station had a button that “had to be pushed” every 100 minutes to avoid disaster. Several characters in the show took it upon themselves to have faith and religiously push the button, resetting the clock and averting the unknown “disaster”. There are striking similarities in this story to the code we write every day. Here ......

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This is a quick introduction to moving from our own internal assembly repository to using NuGet. It’s terse for a reason, just a note to self and those I work with: What we had One source of builds external to our code repository Didn’t check in external builds Used DVCS to share single feed Rake task to update and copy latest builds local checkout ......

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Like it or not, we humans make mistakes. If we embrace the fact that we are going to make mistakes, we can direct our efforts to reduce mistakes in areas that are critical in exchange for potentially making more mistakes in areas that aren’t. Gasp! We need to get over the silly notion that our work can ever be 100% perfect and try to maximize in the ......

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Things I encourage: Frequent local commits This way you don't have to be bothered by changes others are making to the central repository while working on a handful of related tasks. It's a good idea to try to work on one task at a time and commit all changes at partitioned stopping points. A local commit doesn't have to build, just FYI, so a stopping ......

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Fear, it’s what turns maintaining applications into a nightmare. Technology moves on, teams move on, someone is left to operate the application, what was green is now perceived brown. Eventually the business will evolve and changes will need to be made. The approach to those changes often dictates the long term viability of the application. Fear of ......

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