Bug reporting

Users (even developers are users many times) always expect software to "just work". What happens when this is not the case? For example, I accessed blogger using Chrome and couldn't add a new post, so I had to use Firefox. It's really annoying, but the best we can do in those cases is report the bug.

As developers, bug reports are the best tool we have to improve the software. After all, how can we fix a problem that we don't know exists? I've used tools like BugNET and JIRA to track defects, but the tool is not important as long as you track defects.

Hello World

I migrated my blog from my own domain to blogger.com. Transferring the data from my old domain (rortizma.net, which used DNN) was kind of a pain but it's done. Also, blogging using my old domain was too difficult, since I had to do maintenance on the website really often. Using blogger.com should be easier since Google takes care of the back-end.

More on CC.NET

CC.NET is a really cool technology. Now that I have it running, I don't have to worry or spend time creating installers. It can do everything: compile your VS solution, run automated tests, obfuscate and lock the assemblies, and create an installer.

But what happens when you try to use CC.NET with a solution that has managed and unmanaged code (and more important, does not contain explicit dependencies between some projects)? The problem is that deven.com will not compile the projects in the solution in the correct build order. Eventually you will have to fix the VS solution and set up the correct dependencies, but there is a workaround. Just create a task for each project and CC.NET will compile the projects in that order. The drawback is that you may end up with quite a few tasks, depending on your project.

Setting up Cruise Control .NET

So I was setting up this application, which is really easy to do. I'd like to post some useful configuration snippets:

1) Adding several SVN repositories

2) Setting up several tasks

You can find more information on their website, but I found that some sections are not up-to-date.

Sergey Brin @ UC Berkeley

Check it out, interesting talk provided by youtube.com:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ka9IwHNvkfU

Featuring a new website

Lately I heard about DotNetNuke. I decided to use it for my website and these are the results.

Right now I am just using the installers, but I am planning to download the source code and
customize it as necessary. Too bad the code is in VB.NET!Still, it is going to be a good
opportunity to keep my VB.NET skills sharp.