I’ve written previously about using MSBuild With Nunit as well as a bit of a Manifesto on Relentless Build Automation. I believe that automating the build and deployment process is a necessary step to ensure the reliable delivery of quality software.
Release Management
One of the things that we as software developers have to do is [...]

My first book review. I’ve recently read Pragmatic Version Control using Subversion by Mike Mason. It’s not a comprehensive Subversion reference but more of a manual about how to use Subversion in the real world.

With the recent release of Subversion 1.4 I’m going through the process of updating repositories. I often like to use multiple repositories because Subversion versions the entire repository with each checkin (Atomic commits rule!). When I do that, I group all of the repositories in the same directory. It makes it really easy to configure [...]

I was asked today “How do I find out the revision number of my Subversion directory?” and I didn’t know the answer. The good news is there is an easy answer:
svnversion .
From the svnversion help command:

The version number will be a single number if the working
copy is single revision, unmodified, not switched [...]