Jan Tielens' Bloggings

Last week we installed the duo NAnt and Draco.NET on our development server to streamline the build process of our lates project. This duo works quite nice, it took me about five 'failed builds' to set up the references in my first build file, but once you're used to it, it's get better. ;-) Draco.NET works fine, but I can't get the client app. to work, so I can't trigger builds from my own machine. Since we've set Draco.NET to check each 60 seconds, I only have to wait a couple of minutes to get my freshly compiled assembly.

But by reading Fabrice's weblog, I discovered that there are some more build tools, like CruiseControl and MS BuildIt. Does anyone has experiences with some other build tools? I really would like to here some other voices! Thanks and have a nice weekend, Jan.

Over here is a intresting project going on... shwow!DevStudio is an entirely web-based development environment to assist in file sharing and development cycles. They have a site where you can see it in action. Very nice work!

Here you can find a .NET implementation of the object prevalence concept. It seems to be an O-R mapping concept, without using an relational database as back end. I've looked at it briefly and it seems the trick is that all the objects are serialized and saved to disk. I like the idea behind it, but my concern is the lack of high performance search capabilities (such as indexes in a rdbms). But, as I said, I haven't tried it... Maybe someone else has any experiences with it?