I really like continuous integration . Having come from a company that didn't practice it at all (this was a time I used to regularly work 12 to 16 hours a day), I was so happy when I got into a company that actually practiced it. I found it to be a really effective mechanism to ensure that developers...

although msdn docs say that the proper format for assembly version is <major version>.<minor version>.<build number>.<revision> i was surprised that our current project is using a different format which is used by the nant build for our continuos integration setup <major version>...

i was creating this excel workbook reader module so i referenced the excel com interop assembly which resulted in a failing build in our build server minutes after i commit. the problem is because the said assembly is in my machine's global assembly cache, however, it is not existing in the build server...

whenever i have a major change in our projects (e.g. add, remove, rename files), i always try to check if i've broken something by running a nant build locally. everybody here is monitoring our build server and it is a bad impression to break something and hear bart simpson screaming. and the painful...