December, 2008

Tracking Warnings with TeamCity

Submitted by Bevan on Tue, 30 Dec 2008 - 4:01pm

A project I’m involved with is using JetBrains TeamCity as the continuous integration environment.

One of the metrics we wanted to track on this project was the count of warnings produced when compiling. We hoped that, by giving the warning count visibility, we’d be able to gradually reduce the number of warnings over time.

It turned out that adding this into the statistics tab of our TeamCity environment was pretty easy – easier in fact, than counting the warnings.

A Nice Round Number

Submitted by Bevan on Sun, 21 Dec 2008 - 2:23pm

So I'm browsing around on StackOverflow.com and I see this question:

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The top rated answer was this one:

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Am I the only person that thinks this answer should have exactly 256 votes?

I was tempted to vote it down to make it closer ...

On Leadership Styles

Submitted by Bevan on Thu, 18 Dec 2008 - 9:01am

I’m observing that good management doesn’t seem to bear much resemblance to what gets taught at those highly priced management schools.

Some data points …

… I’m currently working with a manager spends very little time telling me what to do, instead spending a lot of time making sure I have a free run to get things done. This includes purchase of some useful tools so the team can move faster.

Announcing NAntGraph

Submitted by Bevan on Thu, 18 Dec 2008 - 8:05am
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What is NAntGraph? NAntGraph is a documentation tool designed to make it easier to understand NAnt or Ant build files.

I've found NAnt to be a versatile and reliable tool, but all to often it is difficult for someone else to pick up a build file and understand what is happening.

NAntGraph is one attempt at making it easier to get an overview of what a build file does, by showing the targets and their dependencies in a single, easy to understand image.

Financial Functions for .NET

Submitted by Bevan on Wed, 17 Dec 2008 - 4:03pm

This looks pretty useful – Luca Bolognese has implemented (during paternity leave, no less!) a fairly complete library of Financial functions for .NET.

 

If this had been around a few months ago, a project I’m working on might have taken quite a different approach. Something to bookmark for later.

Nova's Fractals

Submitted by Bevan on Thu, 11 Dec 2008 - 7:58am

I hadn't thought to check for a while, but today when I looked at the Nova website, I spotted that they now have their show "Hunting the Hidden Dimension" mentioned.

(You may recall that I mentioned Nova back in August when they contacted me concerning use of some of my Mandelbrot images.)

The documentary looks pretty cool - and they've remembered to give credit where due. Neato!