Big Visible Cruise has moved up to 0.5.
Here are the highlights…
Support for the Java-flavor of Cruise
Support for the Ruby-flavor of Cruise
The ability to selectively display projects (all projects are shown by default)
The ability to change the display name of the projects that are shown
All of the new items are mostly documented in the BigVisibleCruise.exe.config file [...]
I’ve been spending roughly 4 – 8 hours a day doing remote pair-programming lately. Although there are always connectivity issues (usually once or twice per day), it’s still only a minor nuisance. Overall, I’m really enjoying the experience and it’s starting to feel pretty close to side-by-side pairing.
The tools that I use on a daily [...]
I’ve been banging my head against the wall for the past couple of years trying to find a way to use index cards during the typical Release, Iteration, and Daily Planning cycles of various projects. The problem is that I’ve been working on distributed teams.
I find it hard to function without a Wall Gantt. Without [...]
Jim has posted a list of tools that are available in the Windows Developer Power Tools book. That’s a lot of tools.
Windows Developer Power Tools is up on Amazon and ready for pre-orders. The book hasn’t been released yet (it’s currently slated for November 1st), but it can be pre-ordered. You can find some sample chapters on Jim’s page for the book. The book was written by James Avery and Jim Holmes with a variety of [...]
If you haven’t seen this yet, the VSTSPlugins project allows using Team Foundation Server with CCNet. You can find the documentation on the CCNet Confluence site and the VSTSPlugins project on SourceForge.
The March 21st edition of .Net Rocks was my favorite show so far. The topic was Test Driven Development with Jean Paul Boodhoo and the show was very good. Jean Paul Boodhoo provided some great insights into TDD, Mock objects, and agile approaches to software development.
Whether you're a devoted TDD advocate or not, the show [...]
James has finally announced the release of his book Visual Studio Hacks.
I can’t wait to get my hands on a copy. This is going to be a long couple of months
Congratulations James!
I just downloaded GhostDoc and I am extremely impressed. GhostDoc is a great step towards providing consistency in comments. I was amazed to see how wonderful a little bit of intelligence and automation can help with readability of the code and the resulting documentation.
When you right click in the following code block and [...]
