October 2006 - Posts

I'm hearing LAWSON everywhere
Published 10-26-2006 11:23 PM | jokiz
Yeah, i'm sure you have heard of it, Lawson is making a big noise for a month now from .NET developers locally. I'm hearing good offers from the said company but i don't know anything else about them. They are located just aacross our building but I haven...
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moving subversion repositories
Published 10-24-2006 5:45 PM | jokiz
our current subversion repository (using file system) has reached 3Gb and it was now hitting the maximum space of its partition where it is located. i decided to transfer it to another partition of our server. looking at the docs, i've found a procedure...
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holidays are ideal work days for build masters
Published 10-24-2006 5:43 PM | jokiz
it is currently a public holiday today (end of ramadan) and i decided to come to work in the afternoon to do some changes on our build server and subversion repository. you can't really do some changes on the development servers on regular working days...
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XmlLogger issue with NAnt
Published 10-23-2006 1:01 PM | jokiz
For a long time now, our Cruise Control .NET dashboard is inconsistently generating NAnt outputs and timings reports. Sometimes, it was generated, sometimes a message of "Please make sure that NAnt is executed using the XmlLogger (use the argument: -logger...
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Longer build time
Published 10-17-2006 4:31 PM | jokiz
As we progress on our current project, our unit tests have now reached the thousand mark. Although some are poorly written (some hits the database), our build time has increased past the default NAnt task for CCNET of 10 minutes. It used to build less...
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"Test" word preceding Unit Test Methods
Published 10-11-2006 1:22 PM | jokiz
Previous testing frameworks including NUnit 1.0 by convention demands the Test word as prefix for test method names in order for the test runner to run it. Now that we are using .NET attributes to instruct the runner which test methods to run, i find...
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ControlInspector for Windows Forms
Published 10-09-2006 6:51 PM | jokiz
I used to use this ConstrolInspector utility from CodeProject utility to know the sequences of events for a control back when i was still a component developer. OT: An ex-officemate of mine, still with my previous employer asked me about this utility...
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Decimal values cannot be used in Attributes
Published 10-06-2006 11:35 AM | jokiz
One of the things I like with MbUnit is the parameterized test methods with RowTestAttribute . This gives you the ability to write just a single test case to test a method with parameters. As I was coding my formula parser i bumped into a limitation on...
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InstallShield 12 uninstall breaks TestDriven.NET
Published 10-02-2006 10:48 PM | jokiz
I have just uninstalled my Evaluation copy of InstallShield 12 which I used to setup our build server. Unluckily, my TestDriven.NET addin suddenly is not behaving properly. My officemate who also had his IS12 copy uninstalled currently have the same problem...
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