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Archives / 2004 / September
  • New Version

    As some of you have already noticed, the last version of NUnitAddIn expired today.  With impeccable timing my Subversion server ran out of space and 'wedged'.  Luckily I do have backups and local versions on various machines.  To cut a long story short, I have been recovering that rather than getting out a new version for the last 24 hours.

  • Test With... Runtime

    I thought I'd take a souvaneir snapshot before I repave.  The final straw was installing .NET v2.0.31112.  This is the runtime you get with the beta of Monad over at BetaPlace.  Installing it in a virtual machine would have been sensible, but I was impatient.

  • Target Dependency Graph

    Using Peli's excelent Quickgraph library, I've written a little app to render MSBuild dependency graphs. Below you can see all of the targets in a C# project along with their dependencies. You can find the fiend responsible for it over here.

  • Another Bizarre Constellation

    You had the .NET 2.0 System assembly and friends last time.  This time it's the turn of System.EnterpriseServices.  The boxes represent 'expanded' assemblies with all references shown (except to System and mscorlib).  The odd thing here is that 'System.Transations' has a reference to itself!  It seems to be the only assembly in the entire framework like this.  I don't know if this is an artifact of how they're setting up circular references or by design.  Can anyone shed some light on this?

  • Defending Full Length Feeds

    Steve Maine puts the case for full length feeds much more eloquently then I ever could.  All I can say is that I'm not terribly fond of the new format.  If as Scoble says it's a bandwidth issue, are there not any alternatives?  Maybe we could syndicate out the supply of full length feeds.  They could be made available to a few specific IP addresses on the understanding that the owner mirror the feed.  There would be exposure in it for the mirror and choice for the users.  Mirrors could choose to differentiate themselves by the theme they use on their main page or how they organize the feeds.  Some popular sites already use this solution for their downloads.  Surely RSS feeds were designed to be syndicated!

  • System.Orgy (second try)

    My experiment the other day to include svg content in my weblog failed dismaly. I've used a PNG file for those of you who couldn't see the image last time.  It's a shame bacause I've grown to like svg.