DC ALT.NET Wrapup and CI Factory
Well, due to the weather beyond our control, the crowd was a
bit smaller than expected at the February meeting of
DC ALT.NET. It seems people panic in the Washington DC area if there
is even a hint of moisture in the air or a snow flake hits the
ground. It was a smaller crowd, yet passionate and I'd rather
have that then a big crowd that wasn't involved at all. We
had such people as
Craig Andera,
Jay Flowers,
Kevin Hegg
among others who attended. But the topics were great talking
about functional programming, with Craig and Lisp and me with
F#, continuous integration, the complexity of .NET and what's
coming down the line, Domain Driven Design and managing
complexity in projects. Not once did a laptop nor PowerPoint
show its head, instead just passionate people talking about
technology and ways of thinking.
I want to thank the people at
Stelligent
and
Jay Flowers
for making this happen. It couldn't have been better timing
as he just released version 1.0.1 of
CI Factory
yesterday. If you aren't aware of this product, I've blogged
about it in the past
here. What it does is it creates an out of the box CI
environment which is really important to have in an agile
environment. Even teams as small as one person can benefit
greatly from continuous integration.
Tools supported by CI Factory include:
Jay and
Scott Hanselman
did an episode on
DNRTV
about CI Factory
here. Of course Scott was being a little snarky for Jay's
spelling, but oh well. So, go ahead and give it a try. I've
found it very useful and pretty easy to use even for some of
the smaller side projects I've done.
