Presentations

Every year, just before the Microsoft TechEd conference, a Code Camp is held in Auckland.

In past years I've always forgotten about this Code Camp until too late. This year, not only have I managed to arrange my flights and accommodation so I can come along, I've also volunteered to give a presentation.

On July 7, I'll be giving a talk Build Automation with NAnt to the Wellington .NET User group.

Here's the advertising spot I wrote for it:

Think about the project(s) you’ve worked on in the last six months. What was involved in going from source code in development to working code in production? How many manual steps were involved? Do you have a copy of the mythical 47 step checklist for deployment into the test lab? We developers spend much of our time streamlining and automating other peoples workflow, yet often we’re like the Cobblers children as we do things the hard way: manually. Start working smarter, not harder, and start automating your builds. NAnt is one good tool for this automation – come and see how NAnt works and discover how you might be able to use it yourself. If you’ve been considering use of psake, rake, make, nmake, msbuild (or any of their cousins) but aren’t quite sure what they’d do for you, come along to see some of what can be achieved with a little investment of time.

Hope to see you there.
Assuming you're based in Wellington, NZ, of course! I'll be posting for download a PDF of the slides plus the scripts I write on the night.