Tools

Gource for Software Visualization

Submitted by Bevan on Fri, 13 Aug 2010 - 4:24pm

At this weeks .NET user group, a friend mentioned Gource, a tool that generates a dynamic visualization that shows how a project evolves over time, based on the commits made to source control.

After finding one movie on the Xero blog, I decided to have a go and see what it looked like when run over a large project I've worked on for the last couple of years.

It looks gorgeous:

Things to install on a new machine

Submitted by Bevan on Sat, 10 Apr 2010 - 1:37pm

Roy Osherove has posted a list of things he installs on any new developer machine, including links so you can find out more.

An Obscure FxCop feature

Submitted by Bevan on Tue, 16 Feb 2010 - 8:20am

This has to qualify as an obscure FxCop feature:

DoNotDeclareReadOnlyMutableReferenceTypes is a rule that checks for visible read-only fields that are mutable reference types (classes). A mutable type is a type whose instance data can be changed once it has been constructed.

Adding AzMan Operations

Submitted by Bevan on Wed, 3 Feb 2010 - 11:46am

If you ever find yourself using AzMan and can't work out how to add a new operation (as I did today), here's the key (and hard to Google) step.

Wierdness with Fitnesse

Submitted by Bevan on Mon, 1 Feb 2010 - 8:36pm

I ran into something really weird with FitNesse (the acceptance testing framework) today. --Chances are, it's something I've done wrong - but I can't work out what. If you know, please comment below!-- Updated below with the solution.

Boiling the whole thing down into a simple test case, what I've found is the following.

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