November 23, 2006
These tools rock! I can't believe they are free.
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November 23, 2006
I am really looking forward to this. CI is a big miss in the current release
of the TFS platform. It's good to know that it is being resolved. I am
anxiously awaiting and I am pretty sure I am not alone.
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November 14, 2006
I've been digging into MSBuild and its integration with CruiseControl.NET over
the past week and have found some good references on the web. The MSDN
documentation being the best I've found so far. I haven't found any "Best
Practices" per se so am taking the liberty to start some of what I think make
sense to me. Here are five tips to help get you started, however, I would
definitely recommend taking
a
look
at these
links
as well as the MSDN documentation.
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November 6, 2006
I had the opportunity to catch up with Mike
Albainy of Apollo Data
Technologies last Friday. It was good to
catch up and discuss a common passion -- the intersection of data mining
technology with the vast and growing amount of data through the healthcare
industry.
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October 24, 2006
The other day when discussing some of the challenges we were facing with
Lysine with a co-worker, I was forced to stop and think when he made the
statement, "Don't be afraid of throwing everything away if you think another
direction is better.".
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October 4, 2006
For the past several days at work, we've begun a Scrum on a new project. At
first, I was not thrilled with the idea of a daily "status" meeting. However,
the 15 minute Scrum meeting every morning is unlike your typical management
run status meeting. It's far more efficient.
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September 28, 2006
I know wordy title. Big deal. It describes what I want to discuss.
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September 25, 2006
I have been writing Hex quite a bit in the context of constructing unit tests
for Lysine. I first was simply
creating static byte arrays in the unit tests themselves, however, it started
becoming a bit unwieldy as well as providing less than favorable reuse of that
test data.
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September 25, 2006
The other day, I discovered the Generic collection, BindingList, in the
System.ComponentModel namespace after reading about it in Rocky
Lhotka's recently revised and updated Expert C#
Business Objects.
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September 25, 2006
The center piece of our solution is a Type that derives from System.IO.Stream.
The EbcdicStream takes as it's input a custom data structure that has been
built to model the definition found in a copy book, as well as a source
stream. This source stream will typically be a FileStream that points to the
raw EBCDIC file that you wish to process into delimited ASCII.
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