- hey @marthakelly have you met @garannm? she is also a big javascript fan... 7 hours ago
- woot looks like i get to spend a week working with the Know Your Meme team haxoring on some ruby in the near future. 8 hours ago
- Cheezburger is hiring C# devs. If you are lol-curious you should apply. cheezburger.theresumator.com/apply/NONdUl/A… 11 hours ago
- My weapon would be a ghost. #Blackwater 2 days ago
- RT @Cheezburger: Stick 'Em with the pointy end. A Game of Thrones Cheezburger Site chzb.gr/LBpFrw 4 days ago
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Category Archives: Learning in Public
Starting a Unique Craftsman Journey
Posted by on October 21, 2010
A couple years ago Corey Haynes went walkabout. He traveled around the world agreeing to pair program with anyone who would provide a place to sleep and feed him. He spent a year on the road documenting the experience through a collection of interviews, videos and musings. This has led Corey to not only become [...]
Fluent Wix : A Breakable Toy Project for Generating MSI Installers
Posted by on July 19, 2010
Where I work we are moving toward using MSI installers for all deployments into production. We lean pretty heavily on the Wix (Windows Installer XML) project. Wix is an incredibly powerful library that allows you to do amazing things. The downside is its abuse of XML as a programming language. Anyone who knows me understands [...]
Getting Your Installer to Register a Service with Wix#
Posted by on May 12, 2010
We use the amazing TopShelf to setup and configure our windows services. It makes it a snap to install your windows service into the service control manager. Simply issue the following commands against your exe and it is installed or uninstalled: MyAwesomeService.exe /install MyAwesomeService.exe /uninstall This makes deployment pretty brain dead, but we want to [...]
Creating Professional Installers with Wix#
Posted by on May 12, 2010
Here at work we have a fairly strict deployment story. As you can imagine with any financial company, when dealing with other people’s money mistakes are punishable by death. Having a failed rollout because your 37 page install document wasn’t completely accurate and left out some minor detail that prevented the server administrator from continuing [...]
James Shore & Diana Larsen’s Proficiencies of Planning
During Agile Open Northwest, James Shore and Diana Larsen held a session called Proficiencies of Planning. They presented a concept they had been discussing to the group of standing room only people and solicited feedback and input. This blog post is what James posted after the conference. I felt this was one of the best [...]