I’ve been working with ASP.Net 2.0 for a while now and overall I’ve been pleased with the functionality that exists in 2.0. There has been a bit of a learning curve and there are a few things that have really driven me close to the brink of insanity.
One of those things is the ASP.Net 2.0 integration with VSS. For some reason, the add to source control functionality source controls the bin directory of your site. When you have a project reference that is modified, ASP.Net will grab the new assembly and update the bin directory (as it should). The problem here is that the bin directory is now source controlled. When you build your solution ASP.Net will automatically check out the file from VSS by default. This obviously creates a massive amount of contention (because it happens for everyone working on the solution and every time the solution is built) and this has been extremely frustrating for our team. The workaround that the team has used has been to make all of the files in the bin directory read-only, but this is obviously a pretty big (and tedious) hack for the default integration behavior.
I haven’t been able to find much out there on an elegant way to work around this issue. Am I just missing something blatantly obvious here? Is this really the default behavior of VS.Net 2005 and the VSS integration? If you’ve faced this issue, what was your approach to avoid these issues?
I’m a big fan of flickr and (while checking out links from outfoxed) I found this. If you use flickr, there are some cool toys to play with here. I especially like the mosaic maker. I like the fact that an image is created (see below) instead of html.
The mosaic below was generate by the mosaic maker with some images from Colorado.
Thanks to the outcry from the community, Microsoft is in the process of changing the Guidelines for TDD page. I applaud Microsoft for listening to the community and quickly taking the proper steps to rectify the faulty guidance. You can read more in this post from Rob Caron.
If you haven’t seen this post, go read it. I love it.
Looking for the “Open from Source Control
This might just be my dream retreat 
… are wrong. The guidelines are an extreme disapointment in my opinion. This topic has been brought up lately on the xp mailing list and there is starting to be an outcry from the tdd community. TDD (by definition) means test-driven.
I hate the fact that you can generate tests from code with the new testing tools. I think there is probably value with the “generate test
I’m eagerly awaiting Getting Real. The crew at 37Signals has been doing a great job lately and I have to say that I love their viewpoints, their simplicity, and the effectiveness of their designs. Hopefully I won’t have to wait too much longer, I’m dying to hear what they have to say and how it is presented.
This is the week that Breck and Keystone both open up. It’s early, but I feel like I’ve been waiting forever. I’ve been riding every weekend at ABasin, but it will be nice to see the crowd start to spread out a little. Now if we could just get a big dump to come bless us with some more snow soon.
I like robot chicken.
I like big text.
I like thinking.
I like yoga.
I like animals.
I like fruit.
I like music.
I like snow.
I like life.
I like mountains.
I like agile.
I like orange….not necessarily in that order.
