Monthly Archives: August 2011

Integrating Toto and a Sinatra app in 10 steps

Posted on August 25, 2011 by Jimmy Bogard

Integrating a Sinatra and toto application is a little tricky for those unfamiliar with hosting multiple Rack applications in a single Rack instance. To integrate these two for AutoMapper.org, I followed similar instructions from the toto wiki: cd your_sinatra_app mkdir … Continue reading →

Posted in Ruby, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Building AutoMapper.org

Posted on August 23, 2011 by Jimmy Bogard

Simplicity is a good thing. Especially when you want to turn out a site that’s really only a couple of pages, max, you don’t want to spend much time (or any) futzing around with things that you don’t care about. … Continue reading →

Posted in AutoMapper | 3 Comments

Official site of AutoMapper launched at AutoMapper.org

Posted on August 22, 2011 by Jimmy Bogard

I’ve (finally) officially launched the official AutoMapper site at AutoMapper.org. It will be a central location for links to AutoMapper resources (mailing list, source, wiki, blog etc.) as well as a spot for news and announcements. I also have an … Continue reading →

Posted in AutoMapper | 6 Comments

MSMQ and cached DNS

Posted on August 18, 2011 by Jimmy Bogard

A couple of weeks ago, one of our hosting providers switched a number of our hosted servers from DHCP to use NAT internally, but kept the same external IP addresses. Evidently we had exhausted the IPv4 addresses internally, and a … Continue reading →

Posted in NServiceBus | 6 Comments

To sign or not to sign an OSS project

Posted on August 15, 2011 by Jimmy Bogard

At one point, AutoMapper was not a signed assembly. Until someone asked for it, I went ahead and signed the assembly, and really haven’t had a complaint since. But it seems that signing of OSS projects is a bit of … Continue reading →

Posted in AutoMapper | 8 Comments

Edge cases and impossibilities

Posted on August 10, 2011 by Jimmy Bogard

When one nurtures a production system for a long period of time, new requirements or examinations of existing behavior typically start with a set of assumptions of how the existing system should behave. However, I’ve often found that my assumptions … Continue reading →

Posted in Design | 2 Comments

A brighter TFS future?

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Jimmy Bogard

I saw an interesting quote in Brian Harry’s (the PM of TFS) post on TFS 11 enhancements. He mentions that the next TFS version will support Subversion-style “Modify-merge-commit” workflows, which is a definitely a step in the right direction. However, … Continue reading →

Posted in TFS | 7 Comments

Disruptive versus iterative change

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Jimmy Bogard

Scrum is a rather interesting phenomena. As a process, the feedback system it incorporates encourages incremental and iterative improvements not only in the software, but the process itself. Once scrum is in place, things can go rather smoothly, although I … Continue reading →

Posted in Agile | 2 Comments