Robz / Fervent Coder

Chocolatey turned 5 years old recently! I committed the first lines of Chocolatey code on March 22, 2011. At that time I never imagined that Chocolatey…

> Average approval time for moderated packages is currently under 10 hours! In my last post, I talked about things we were implementing or getting ready…

> “Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.” – Howard H. Aiken

Now that we’ve a little about. Let’s see how easy it is to get started. Let’s…

) was one of the first configuration management (CM) tools to support…

> Fear holds us back from many things. A little fear is healthy, but don’t let it overwhelm you into missing opportunities.

I always forget this until I need it the next time, but there is a great post that talks about how to fix your skype quality.

Recently…

So you have stored procedure and it’s having issues. When you run it, it returns really fast. When.NET runs it, its like a dog.

I wanted to keep link love – but blog wouldn’t let me keep the link with the .NET in it when I edited it. The link is now here:…

Have you ever seen this error? > System.IO.FileLoadException: Could not load file or assembly ‘nameOfAssembly’, Version=specificVersion, Culture=neutral,…

To set up Tarantino to run you follow the instructions from my last couple of posts. Once you've done that, you set up a file to run the project.

The Tarantino Project is a very simple to use database change management system that uses an application or NAnt deployment tasks to do so. I've been…

 The DevHuddle. This is a term I started using to identify what my team does to plan…

> Can you imagine maintenance where you would only have to change a configuration? How about not having to touch existing production code but be able to…

Recently I was asked to help out when we had a need to reduce the size of a directory of rolling backups. And when I say size, I am talking around 12GB a…

One of my favorite utilities is Notepad2. I had a script to replace the original Notepad with Notepad2 on Windows, but as of Windows XP Service Pack 3,…

I thought I would post about this because I find myself putting notes about this in comments and there. One of our team members bought the rabies plush…

 (SVN) just released version 1.5.0 recently on June 18, 2008. With it comes bug fixes and…

One thing I always keep noticing is that people will develop things without even giving a thought to maintenance. This somehow seems impolite to me. I…

I just recently started using BareTail (which is a free Tail for Windows) and I have to say it is fantastic at what it does. What is a tail? In Unix it is…

I just saw this challenge to find real life examples of agile development by Tom Perry. He was hanging Christmas lights and found a way to incorporate…

There is an interesting thing that happens when you use Reporting Services 2005. You find that sometimes things don't quite work like you want them to and…

This was my first chance to see the MVC (model view controller) Framework as when I was at Tulsa TechFest, I was presenting at the same time and didn't…

One of the thoughts I've been considering recently with chocolatey is consistency with packages and naming conventions as chocolatey continues to grow.…