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Source Control without Continuous Integration

cruizer — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 06:31:00 GMT

Having a source control system is a must these days, but I must say that coupling that with a continuous integration (CI) build system is just as important. It's really frustrating to pull the supposedly latest or most recent 'stable' or 'production'...(read more)

The post that stirred up the horNET's nest

cruizer — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 05:08:00 GMT

I woke up yesterday to find Twitter abuzz with heated tweets by various developers. I live about halfway around the globe from the US so I'm quite used to situations like this, and looking for the news post or product announcement that caused it....(read more)

IronRuby 1.0 is out!

cruizer — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 01:06:00 GMT

Just in case you didn't know, IronRuby 1.0 has been released on 12 April (same day as Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0). See how it compares to Matz' Ruby interpreter as far as the test suite goes. No benchmarks found yet, but I wouldn't be...(read more)

VirtualBox article

cruizer — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:20:00 GMT

Wow, I haven't updated this blog for quite some time. I'm finding out it's true: Twitter kills blogging. Anyway, my VirtualBox how-to article is out! For those of you who have been hiding under a rock (?), VirtualBox is a freely-available...(read more)

IronRuby and the DLR slides posted in slideshare

cruizer — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:37:00 GMT

Posted the slides for "IronRuby and the Dynamic Language Runtime" in slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/cruizer/ironruby-and-the-dlr I delivered this talk on Saturday, 19 December 2009 at the Community Technology Update 2009 II event. It's...(read more)

Tip: help IronRuby find SharePoint assemblies

cruizer — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:00:00 GMT

One of the pain points in having IronRuby access SharePoint classes is that you'll have to help IronRuby find the appropriate assemblies. IronRuby (at least with the 0.9.0 version) has an IronRuby folder underneath the lib folder in its main directory...(read more)

SharePoint + IronRuby

cruizer — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:51:00 GMT

Yesterday I was banging my head against a (virtual) wall because of frustration trying to debug a WF -based workflow for SharePoint when I thought of a cool idea: why not use IronRuby and its REPL console to explore the SharePoint object model ? That...(read more)

IronRuby presentation slides and demo code

cruizer — Sun, 24 May 2009 04:54:00 GMT

I have posted the presentation slides (in both PowerPoint 2007 and OpenDocument Presentation formats) and demo code here: [EDIT: added link to SlideShare copy] Presentation slides, PowerPoint 2007 format , OpenDocument Presentation format or view online...(read more)

IronRuby talk tomorrow!

cruizer — Thu, 21 May 2009 23:57:00 GMT

I will be speaking about IronRuby in tomorrow's Community Technology Update event in Singapore. Good thing that IronRuby 0.5.0 was released yesterday ; that gave me enough time to adjust my presentation to take the new version into account. Nothing's...(read more)

LINQ and db4o

cruizer — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:01:00 GMT

I failed to mention in my previous post that db4o also supports LINQ for executing queries against an object database. In order to avail of this feature, a reference should be added to the Db4objects.Db4o.Linq.dll and you need to specify " using...(read more)

Introduction to Object Databases (using db4o)

cruizer — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:12:00 GMT

For the longest time I have been intrigued by object database management systems ( ODBMS ) and I have been wanting to try it out. Of course there are the usual excuses -- I'm busy, I've got no time, I've got so many other projects, etc. Recently...(read more)

Enjoy The Silence

cruizer — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 04:24:00 GMT

New Year is just around the corner...I mean Chinese New Year ... it's been almost two months since the last TDD blog post! Part 3 is totally overdue. Looks like I enjoyed my Philippine vacation so much, I forgot all about it! Anyway, no more excuses...(read more)

TDD Step by Step, Part 2: The Database

cruizer — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:37:00 GMT

Welcome to part two of our series on building a Windows application using test-driven development (TDD). In the previous article we drove the design of our entity classes and data access layer by means of unit tests. The unit tests acted more as specifications...(read more)

TDD Step by Step, Part 1

cruizer — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:37:00 GMT

In a hot discussion thread in msforums.ph about the value of unit testing and adopting test-driven development (TDD), a suggestion was made to illustrate how TDD is used in creating a simple application, specifically Keith's October code challenge...(read more)

Data Access with LINQ

cruizer — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:25:00 GMT

I discussed LINQ (LINQ to objects, XML, then SQL) during the Microsoft TechFEST event here in Singapore, and the slides are here . You can download the sample code as well....(read more)