My Projects
Don't start a demo with DDoS
A few days ago I had a launch of my current project to the internal customers. This meant that many more users had a chance to see the nearly-complete application. There are still a lot to do, but we are very close to feature-freeze (yeah!). Anyway, I closed down everything the day before (around noon, so I had plenty of time to verify that it worked), the day of the presentation, I took the liberty of arriving late (I often does, actually, it allows me to skip traffic). Around 20 minutes from work, I started to get urgent phones. We...
Coding Metrics
Take a look at those: Castle: (removed image) Rhino Tools: (removed image) I run Ohloh before, but this time it is for my own stuff, and it looks like my Rhino Tools projects is over 70,000 Lines of code, and is worth close to 1 million dollars. I find it interesting that it is valued at 17 man years, though :-) ...
Building The Infrastructure
I mentioned before that I hate infrastructure, but right now I am building the continious integration facilities for my projects, and I can't escape it. One of the biggest hurdles so far has been the install for NHibernate Query Generator. I don't know zlit about MSI, installers, etc. So I tried to take WixEdit, Votice and SharpDevelop and create a very simple Wix script that can install NQG. Took me longer than it would have taken to write an installer myself, I suspect, but I finally managed to do it. I then turned to...