Monthly Archives: September 2009

Albacore AssemblyInfo Task vs. Nant Assembly Info Generator

Posted on September 29, 2009 by Derick Bailey

Here’s one of the reasons I like Rake and my custom Rake tasks that I’m building into Albacore, so much. To generate some assembly information such as version, company name, copyright, etc., you need to do this with nant: 1: … Continue reading →

Posted in .NET, Albacore, Productivity, Rake, Ruby | 10 Comments

Albacore: A Suite Of Rake Build Tasks For .NET Solutions

Posted on September 23, 2009 by Derick Bailey

After my previous post on building a “real” rake task, I decided to dive in head first and learn how to get this stuff done. I chose to drive the tasks out via rspec, through a TDD process, and I … Continue reading →

Posted in .NET, Albacore, C#, Continuous Integration, Git, Rake, Ruby | 9 Comments

Help! E-Text Editor Can’t Run My Rake Tasks…

Posted on September 18, 2009 by Derick Bailey

I downloaded the E-Text Editor to work with my ruby / rake stuff, because it’s a great editor and because it supports all of the TextMate bundles. The idea is that I should be able to run all of my … Continue reading →

Posted in Rake, Ruby | 4 Comments

An Alternate Way To Handle Task Dependencies In Custom Rake Tasks

Posted on September 18, 2009 by Derick Bailey

Earlier today, I showed how to create a custom Rake task from the base TaskLib, so that we can use more than just simple “task :name” syntax for our rake tasks. In that example, I showed how to add explicit … Continue reading →

Posted in Craftsmanship, Lambda Expressions, Rake, Ruby | 1 Comment

A Failed Opportunity To Coach, Teach, And Help Others Improve

Posted on September 17, 2009 by Derick Bailey

A colleague in the nation of Pablo-The-Donkey asked a question on the LosTechies private mailing list: “Has anyone had experience with bringing agile into a workplace that has legacy code that hurts to touch, let alone wrap tests around and … Continue reading →

Posted in Agile, Coaching, Education, Kanban, Lean Systems, Management | 6 Comments

How A .NET Developer Hacked Out A Rake Task

Posted on September 17, 2009 by Derick Bailey

I spent the last two days having my brain melted by Scott Bellware, in a crash course on Ruby, Rake, RSpec, Selenium, web UI test automation best practices, and all-around uber-normal-person-language-oriented development. It was great! After the first 7 hour … Continue reading →

Posted in .NET, C#, Craftsmanship, Lambda Expressions, Rake, Ruby | 4 Comments

A Coworker’s Response To The Future Of The Boutique Software Shop

Posted on September 11, 2009 by Derick Bailey

Sean Biefeld forwarded a link to Michael Feather’s Thoughts on the Future of the Boutique Software Shop earlier today and it sparked some interesting conversations at the office, via email. One response from a coworker (Robert O’Neil, who doesn’t have … Continue reading →

Posted in Craftsmanship, Quality, Re-Post, User Experience | 1 Comment

Some Initial Thoughts On Agile Developer Skills And Certification

Posted on September 11, 2009 by Derick Bailey

There’s a new mailing list over on Google Groups surrounding the ideas behind Agile Developer Skills Certification. After reading this post by Ron Jeffries, I joined up with the group and started reading the traffic. I generally share the same … Continue reading →

Posted in Agile, Certification, Education, Philosophy of Software | 8 Comments

What Do You Want To Know, About Kanban In Software Development?

Posted on September 3, 2009 by Derick Bailey

I asked this question via Twitter a few minutes ago, and wanted to ask the non-twittering inter-web-o-blog-reading public: if I were to do an Intro To Kanban presentation for your team/company/local-user-group, what questions would you want answered? Let me know … Continue reading →

Posted in Community, Education, Kanban, Presentations | 9 Comments

A Kanban Board Is A Production Leveling Task Board

Posted on September 3, 2009 by Derick Bailey

In the lean manufacturing world heijunka – production leveling – “is a technique for reducing the mura waste and vital to the development of production efficiency […]. The general idea is to produce intermediate goods at a constant rate, to … Continue reading →

Posted in Agile, Kanban, Lean Systems, Management, Workflow | 2 Comments