Tuesday, October 25, 2011

SemVer, NuGet, and Nightly Builds

SemVer, NuGet, and Nightly Builds


SemVer, NuGet, and Nightly Builds

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 12:00 AM PDT

Recently, a group of covert ninjas within my organization started to investigate what it would take to change our internal build and continuous integration systems (CI) to take advantage of NuGet for many of our products, and I need your input! Hmm, off by one error slays me again. -Image from Ask A Ninja. Click on the image to visit. Ok, they're not really covert ninjas, that just sounds much cooler than a team of slightly pudgy software developers. Ok, they've told me to speak for myself, they're in great shape! In response to popular demand, we changed our minds and decided to support Semantic Versioning (SemVer) as the means to specify pre-release packages for the next version of NuGet (1.6). In part, this is the cause of the delay for this...(read more)

Microsoft DevDays 2011 - I’m attending

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 07:12 AM PDT

Yes I'm attending the DevDays this year, but only one day. I will be representing Sixin in the Community Lounge on Thursday April 28th. The last day you can find Antoni Dol representing Sixin at the same place. If my schedule allows it, I will try to...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight / Windows Phone 7 Behavior to enhance Usability of TextBoxes

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 07:12 AM PDT

Yesterday I used an application on my Windows Phone which was very useful. When you gave focus to a TextBox it would immediately select all of the content of the TextBox. Though it's not difficult to implement I found it very useful, and see it as a productivity...( read more )...(read more)

Isolated Storage as Cache using Reactive Extensions

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 07:12 AM PDT

A lot of people are used to write some data to the Isolated Storage to use it as a Cache. I'm doing that as well, it's easy to write and read to the Isolated Storage. Some people just write text/xml data and want to put the content in a string. I have...( read more )...(read more)

Cache as Fallback using Reactive Extensions

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 07:12 AM PDT

In my previous article I wrote about how to use the Isolated Storage using Reactive Extensions. Let's combine that with the ability to access online resources using Reactive Extensions. What I want to achieve can be explained best by a picture. Basically...( read more )...(read more)

Adding Tactile Feedback to your app the easy way

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 07:12 AM PDT

About a week ago there was a very good article with tips to make your wp7 app a killer app . Tip 24 was about tactile feedback. Tactile feedback can be something like 30 milliseconds running the VibrateController. That's very easy, just like this: VibrateController...( read more )...(read more)

Improve the YSlow score - remove the ETags

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 07:12 AM PDT

There are a lot of resources on the web which tell you how to create a fast website. You can measure the speed with for example YSlow . Do you want reasons? Maybe it's good to read for example Scott Hanselman's blog or his recent podcast in which he interviews...( read more )...(read more)

Statistics for your Windows Phone application (Google Analytics)

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 07:12 AM PDT

Alright, I've tried a couple of different systems to get the statistics for the apps I created. Google Analytics custom way I started more than a year ago with a unreliable option using Google Analytics . This option was unreliable because it didn't handle...( read more )...(read more)

The Windows Phone design Grid - Love it!

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 04:28 AM PDT

We've been having a blast during the early stages of the Windows Phone Design Day tour. We visited the beautiful and magical South Africa, Joburg and Durban. Yesterday we delivered the workshop at Lisboa in Portugal and today as I type, Corrina...( read more )...(read more)

10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Part 3)

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 03:08 AM PDT

This article is sponsored by Telerik RadControls for Silverlight . Related content from the sponsor: Check out what's new! XAML Controls BETA—Introducing a new and empowered ChartingKit! The LOB Chronicles—don't miss "Episode 10...( read more )...(read more)

GitHub, Triggered Deployments, and In-Browser Editing

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 12:01 AM PDT

Earlier this month, I explored using WebMatrix, Git, and AppHarbor to quickly create and publish a web site in the cloud. While at work this afternoon I got a phone call from a relative with a usability issue on the site. To fix the issue, I simply needed Read More......(read more)

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