On the heels of my article on using MSBuild with NUnit, I've been totally outdone by Brennan. Check out his series on MSBuild. He covers Unit testing with NUnit (naturally), but starts with the basics, and gets into everything from Packaging to Web Deployments. All with nice screenshots! He ...

I've written about Unit Testing and Build Automation in the past, but mostly dealing with Java projects and tools (because I usually write about things I'm working on at the time). Well, I've started a .NET project for the first time in a while so I want to solve some ...

In a previous post, I discussed materialized views in Oracle. I wanted to share a relatively simple technique that can be used to create similar functionality in Oracle or another database. Why Use Something Else? Materialized Views are a feature available in Oracle. If you're not using Oracle, then that's reason enough ...

At SpiderLogic we have offices in Milwaukee, WI, Madison, WI and Pune, Maharshtra, India. While Milwaukee and Madison are right next door in the global sense, Pune is all the way around the world. Being so distant can make communication challenging of course. When you are in a one-on-one situation, ...

I just ran across a new Google product (new to me at least). Google Notebook is a tool that allows you to store notes and snippets on a web page for later use. The Notebook can have multiple notebooks in it for different topics, and section headers within a notebook ...

In a previous post, I wrote a review of Pragmatic Version Control Using Subversion which covers effectively using version control systems on software development projects. This entry covers another book by the Pragmatic Programmers in their Pragmatic Starter Series. Pragmatic Project Automation: How to Build, Deploy, and Monitor Java Apps Pragmatic Project ...

I wanted to follow up on my previous post about dealing with blog spam. I installed Akismet and it has worked flawlessly. It has caught dozens of blog spam posts so far. I have had no false positives and no false negatives yet (i.e. it has correctly identified every comment). The ...

I assume that many of my readers are technical people and as such are likely to be bloggers themselves, so I post the question to you: How do you deal with blog spam? I'm currently getting on the order of 30-40 blog spam posts a day. While WordPress does a good ...