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CruiseControl.NET and CVS with pserver

Wow. This was really painful. I'm setting up CruiseControl.NET to build our projects at work. I'm forced to use a CVS server for the source code repository that has been configured to use the pserver mode for authentication. It was easy to figure out how to set the cvsroot settings in the config...

Posted to RedCrystal (Weblog) by AlanM on 08-02-2008
Burned by the same dumb problem twice!

I hate when that happens. So I'm leaving myself a note: http://www.thejoyofcode.com/Failed_to_map_the_path_App_GlobalResources.aspx Notice my comment near the end of the comments. A zero-byte file in the folder C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Crypto\RSA\MachineKeys...

Posted to RedCrystal (Weblog) by AlanM on 08-02-2008
Open Source? Say what?

I'm throwing away a pamphlet I got in the mail for O'Reilly's Open Source Convention, OSCON. "Open Source." Two little words for a big concept: that code can be owned by more than a single person or corporation. That a lot of people can get together to share in the contribution...

Posted to RedCrystal (Weblog) by AlanM on 06-08-2008
Talking about AddThis - #1 Social Bookmarking Sharing Button - Del.icio.us Digg Facebook Widget

Now this is a brilliant thing. A single button which adds a "favorite" (or whatever) to your online collective list of "favorites" (or whatevers). Quote AddThis - #1 Social Bookmarking Sharing Button - Del.icio.us Digg Facebook Widget

Posted to RedCrystal (Weblog) by AlanM on 04-08-2008
Bits.Bytes. » Customizing Windows Powershell

This is a way cool set of customizations for PowerShell. Don't know if I want to get all into the signing, but this thing totally shows how to do it if you want. Bits.Bytes. » Customizing Windows Powershell Technorati Tags: PowerShell

Posted to RedCrystal (Weblog) by AlanM on 09-21-2007
Deploying web sites with Web Deployment Projects

One of my favorite things in VS 2005 is the Web Deployment Project . I've used them significantly on two major projects, and now I've discovered some things I do repeatedly that I want to remember for the next time. Using Configuration Replacement Files Every project I work on has different settings...

Posted to RedCrystal (Weblog) by AlanM on 09-14-2007
Nested transaction - SAVE vs BEGIN [TRAN] [Archive] - dBforums

As David Browne himself says, this is a good "pattern for a nestable, atomic stored procedure that can be invoked whether or not the connection has already started a transaction." Nested transaction - SAVE vs BEGIN [TRAN] [Archive] - dBforums Technorati Tags: stored procedures , transactions...

Posted to RedCrystal (Weblog) by AlanM on 08-30-2007
Advanced file renaming using PowerShell

I often find myself needing to rename a lot of files in an advanced way, like changing a word in the middle of the file name to a different word. That's ordinarily difficult, if not impossible with ordinary command line tools. But there is a way to do it in PowerShell. And for the record, I am still...

Posted to RedCrystal (Weblog) by AlanM on 08-14-2007
Talking about LLBLGen Pro: The leading O/R mapper - generator

Emmet recommended this tool and he uses it for some applications. I like that it seems to be extremely powerful. OTOH, there is a lot to it, and it presented a problem for spinup time for me when I came into the project that used it. Additionally, there will be a performance tradeoff, and I wonder where...

Posted to RedCrystal (Weblog) by AlanM on 08-01-2006
Talking about Being Scott Densmore

According to Hisham Baz, Scott Densmore is the King of Configuration for the Enterprise Library Quote Being Scott Densmore

Posted to RedCrystal (Weblog) by AlanM on 04-21-2006

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