Archives
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CodeSmith 2.1.1270 Released!
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Martin Fowler
OK, I must admit, I've never read a single Martin Fowler book. Lately with people talking about him like he is a god and quoting his book like it's the bible I figured I better start looking into who he is and deciding if I should be reading his books. A simple check of martinfowler.com worked like a charm. I also discovered that he has a blog, so you guys better get your aggregators open and subscribe! :-)
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Almost Free Full Tech Books
I should also mention that through my work I have access to Books24x7.com, but I hardly access it. The UI is straight from 1994, and is pretty clunky to boot. I don't know if that's ElementK's (through which my work gains access) fault or Books24x7 though, so your mileage may vary.
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Moving to CVS from VSS
Don Browing comments on using Subversion or CVS in place of VSS. Peter Provost started a lengthy discussion in the Win Tech: Off Topic list on Moving to CVS from VSS; great tips for those wanting to make the switch to CVS. As you'll see in this discussion, Brad Wilson is always a great source of information for using CVS in the context of .NET, and just CVS in general. Methinks he should aggregate all these tips/ideas into a book. I've been happily using CVS for quite a while now thanks to the productive TortoiseCVS, but based on Don's recommendation I'll be looking at Subversion as well.
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CodeSmith Needs A Few Good Beta Testers
I am looking for some people to help me out with new CodeSmith builds. If you are interested, you will be given access to private builds of CodeSmith to test and make sure I don't release crappy code. :-) Send me an email if you are interested.
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Macro Madness
Duncan Mackenzie (who I just met last night) has posted his latest Coding4Fun article called Macro Madness. This is a good article on writing macros in VS.NET, but it became a great article when I noticed the CodeSmith plug at the bottom! Very nice Duncan!
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VS.NET Deployment Project Help
CodeSmith has dependancies on EnvDTE, Extensibility, and Office. These files should be installed in the users GAC already since I do a check to make sure that VS.NET 2003 is installed (this seems to work). The problem is that I'm running into people that have VS.NET installed but don't have these files in their GAC. I don't believe it's a good practice to include these files in the installation, but how else am I supposed to ensure that my installer works correctly? Does anyone have any experience with this? Your help is appreciated.
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TechEd Bloggers Get Together at Hard Rock Cafe
Anyone attending TechEd or living in the Dallas/Fort Worth Area, we (Cory Smith, Duncan Mackenzie, and I so far) are going to have a get together at the Dallas Hard Rock Cafe this Tuesday (6/3/2003) at 7pm. I would love to meet some of the people in the weblogs.asp.net community, some of the softies or just people that want to talk about CodeSmith. If you are interested, send me an email or just show up.
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TechEd 2003
All you guys talking about TechEd 2003 are really bumming me out. I live in Dallas, but I still didn't get a chance to go. It sounds like there are quite a few of my fellow bloggers attending. It would be neat to meet some of you. I wonder if anyone would be interested in setting up a weblogs.asp.net get together?