Reusing Tools From Subversion Controlled Directories

Sometimes I want to take a tool from one project that is under subversion and use it in another. The problem is with the existing .svn directories. Because the files are already in one repository, copying directly from there to another project will cause conflicts in the other repository. There are quick and easy ways [...]

Getting Started with Basic Agile Development – The Technical

I recently helped a friend out with the technical side of going “agile”. This meant setting up some project source control and automation for build and test. I have a pretty advanced automation setup on most of my projects right now. It’s far from perfect (I don’t have nightly releases being tagged, etc), but it [...]

DBDeploy with MySQL

I started playing with dbdeploy on one of my php projects today because I’ve seen it used with success on another project I’m working on. The biggest differences in the projects are that one uses Postgres and the other uses MySQL. Converting all my sql scripts for table creation went just fine and they ran [...]

Automating Code Review Tools – FxCop – Part III

The third post in this series on Automating Code Review tools will cover FxCop. FxCop is a coding standard and introspective analysis tool that looks at code using a ruleset and analyzes things such as code design (“should this method be static, internal, etc”) and performance (“change this method to static because it never uses [...]

Update to CAT.NET NAnt Target

Yesterday I posted about automating CAT.NET. Today while adding it to another build file, I ran across a great error! The tool did not detect any vulnerabilities in my code and therefore the XPath used in the xmlpeek task failed! This caused the build to fail with a false positive. I’ve updated my target to [...]