Wayne Allen's Blog

Jim Shore wrote about why he doesn't like Cruise Control. I agree to some extent with his points that the reason teams use it is to catch build errors and deal with "slow" builds. Having implemented both Draco.NET and CruiseControl.NET and toyed with Fin… more »

Some of you may be rolling your eyes at this suggestion, but it's been bugging me for months and I finally figured out how to fix it. For many moons I've been editing T-SQL stored procedures using VS.NET, but been annoyed because every time I when to th… more »

I had a need (creating CSV BCP files) that required knowing the column names of a MS SQL table in the order they were created. Some inspiration from Mark Clerget and a little fooling around with SQL Query Analyzer resulted in the following. DECLARE @c v… more »

Bill Caputo has a wonderfully clear explanation of how to address questions regarding using TDD at system boundaries. TDD is fundamentally about writing tests (or 'checked examples' as Brian Marick calls them) before you write the code. One of the… more »

Thanks to Patrick Logan I now know what Skiplists are. Skip lists are an ingenious data structure that turns a linked list into a data structure that offers the same running time as the more complex self-balancing tree data structures... In the lat… more »

Interesting bit of detective work the other day I thought I'd share with everyone. A friend of a friend was having trouble with an ASP 2.0 project that was ported to ASP.NET. Turns out that on some web servers the different clients were getting their dat… more »

In reflecting on my previous post regarding shared libraries in VSS vs CVS I realized that the end of the post got to the real meat of the matter. Turns out we are using a feature of VSS to help us organize our shared libraries, however, shared libraries… more »