I work often with windows services, and one of the most painfully experience is that you do not have an UI and quite often they have to do some scheduled task at certain time, so whenever you have a deploy you can find yourself in this situation.
The question mark means that you are not [...]
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Software architects are similar to civil architects, both of them work to create an artifact (software or building) on paper that will be subsequent realized. If you are committed to make a project of a building, witch of them you will like more to create?
I’m sure that the first one is probably the [...]
When you develop web applications you usually have X developers solving bugs and implementing features, and a series of testers that test application during developing process. A must to have requirement is that
Modifications to the trunk are visible as soon as possible to testers.
Data in test database gets preserved
Point 2 is especially important, [...]
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I just read this post of Martin Fowler, and I found it very interesting. In my opinion, even small projects will greatly benefit from Continuous Integration. Despite of the Branching policies that you choose, having a machine for CI is vital during the lifetime of a project.
Usually I do not like very much CherryPicking [...]
Thanks to Castle Windsor you can write really modular software. I’m building a project in WinForm that needs to access the domain model through a service layer on a WS* service. One of the most annoying stuff is the need to setup a local service to test the application and the interface.
The key to speedup [...]
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