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DevDays09 slides : If you build it, you’ll ship it

Dennis van der Stelt — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 09:24:33 GMT

As Dennis Doomen, I was quite happy with how the session went. Some stuff went by pretty fast, mainly because I did not want to present how the tools I used work, but did want to show the audience how I did it and what the tools are capable of.

Here’s the presentation if you’d like to review it and I’ve created a package with the demos as well. It contains…

NerdDinner for Visual Studio 2008 in folder structure as specified in presentation
FinalBuilder 6 script for building NerdDinner
FinalBuilder 6 script for deploying a ClickOnce application as described in this article.

I’ll be speaking at the Microsoft Developer Days 2009

Felienne Hermans — Wed, 27 May 2009 10:39:00 GMT

I’ll be speaking at the Microsoft Developer Days 2009, in the Academic Guestlecture. This session will take place friday at 16:30 in the Central America lecture room.

Since its start in 1991, Microsoft Research has attrated numeral theoretical computer scientists like Turing Award winners Anthony Hoare and Butler Lampson; Fields Medal winner Michael Freedman and Latex creator Leslie Lamport. How have they contributed to the evolution of Microsoft products?

In this session we will give an overview of some relatively new technologies, like LINQ, F#, Oslo and Code Contracts to which the scientists above have contributed. We will explore not how they work, but why they work. Therefore we will explain some details of the theoretical concepts behind them. Do'nt be afraid, I promise everyone with a high school level of mathematics will be able to understand this session.

I’ll be speaking at the Microsoft Developer Days 2009

Dennis van der Stelt — Tue, 19 May 2009 11:24:54 GMT

Thanks to the many votes we received on our wildcard proposals from attendees, colleagues and community members, Pieter Joost van de Sande, Dennis Doomen, Michael van der Veeken and me have won a timeslot on next week’s Microsoft Developer Days. I’ll be talking about creating a build and doing continuous integration on Friday May 29th at 15:00 in the conference room named South America.

I will be showing how you can do continuous integration with the new abilities that Visual Studio 2010 has for this. I’ll also be showing other tools that can help you and give you best practices and pitfalls on continuous integration.

DevDays wildcard proposals and voting

Dennis van der Stelt — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 07:53:48 GMT

Because it’s not clear to anyone, I want to state that you don’t have to actually be a visitor of the DevDays to be able to vote on the sessions. The only thing you need to do is register for an account, verify your email address by clicking on the link in the email you receive and you’re allowed to vote. Don’t forget to vote for my session.

Almost all companies use a source control repository to work in a team, but a lot of those don’t use Continuous Integration (CI) to…

Commit code at least once a day
Verify everything still works by running unit tests on an integration machine
Deploy databases and set up test databases for integration tests
Create deployment packages for test, acceptance and production environments
Be able to verify what the status of the project is
Deploy any day, any time

That’s what I want to explain and show during the developer days. If you want to know more about this, vote for my session.

Dennis Doomen will also be able to present you with a great presentation on Test-Driven Development and SOLID principles by Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob) if you vote for him too.

On a site note, it’s funny how I sometimes see the ranking of both sessions drop. Some people seem to vote on a friend or colleague and give a thumb down on my and Dennis Doomen his session. Although it might be tempting to make all our thumb up voters also give a thumb down to all other sessions, it’s also a pretty sad. So giving me the thumb up will do, thank you. :-)

Wildcard proposal : If you build it, you’ll ship it

Dennis van der Stelt — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:38:35 GMT

Every developer is familiar with the phrase "It works on my machine". But what if you could claim your code can be deployed at any time of the day? Simply because the latest tested and verified version has been prepared for you on your build server. Not to mention with separate installation packages for both testing-, acceptance and production environment?

If you would like to know how you can set up such an environment using the best tools and the best practices, vote for me at the DevDays site and let me tell my story in one of the two wildcard sessions.

I’m going to be talking about how to setup a build and use continuous integration to build the code, verify all unit tests and integration tests, build packages for all different environments and servers and setup configuration for each of them. We’ll do this using Team Foundation Server, MSBuild, FinalBuilder and more and also list a lot of the common tools used. Also discussed will be how to setup each environment and how virtualization can help you set these up. After visiting this session, you’ll know the best practices but also some of the anti patterns of continuous integration.

And if you want to know how you can get cake at work, every day, vote for my session and some see it.