Christopher Bennage

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• My Development Tools

  The last two Octobers, I took a moment to reflect on the development tools I was using. It's interesting to see what sticks, and what doesn't. Unfortunately, my 2005 list is lost in the aether, but here is the link to 2006 , and more importantly... Posted Jan 25 2008, 09:52 AM by Christopher Bennage with | with 18 comment(s) Filed under: development tools

• My Favorite Keyboard Shortcuts

  I'm such a wannabe ReSharper padawan . My motivation is good though: I want to be more productive. On a recent project, I was writing some code in front of a client employee, a novice developer himself, and he exclaimed "The code is just writing... Posted Oct 04 2007, 11:44 PM by Christopher Bennage with | with 10 comment(s) Filed under: development tools, .Tips & Tricks, ReSharper, Visual Studio

• Continuous Integration with Draco.NET

  At our most recent .NET users group meeting, Joe Healy asked for a show of hands for those doing Continuous Integration. There were about 40 of us and (I'm pretty sure) no one raised their hand. A few years back, I had a NAnt script that was scheduled... Posted Aug 12 2007, 03:37 PM by Christopher Bennage with | with 11 comment(s) Filed under: development tools, Agile, XP, Continuous Integration

• Best Practices, Training, & Tools

  We were recently contracted to assist a development team in employing some Best Practices . Specifically, they were interested in learning Agile. We began by speaking with the developers and managers to try to determine what would benefit them the most... Posted Jun 18 2007, 04:44 PM by Christopher Bennage with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: development tools, Agile, XP, TDD, Musings

• Your Development Tools

  Every now and then I like to get a pulse on what people are using for their development environment. I'm continually picking after useful tools from reading other developer's posts. I'd like to know what your primary tools are, your list of... Posted Oct 18 2006, 02:14 PM by Christopher Bennage with | with 17 comment(s) Filed under: ASP.NET, development tools

• Subversion for Source Control

  Background : We've been using Subversion for source control on our extensive ASP.NET project for the last year. It was the fourth tool we tried, and the one that stuck. We have an automated build process and a distributed team. Our repository resides... Posted Oct 04 2006, 11:43 PM by Christopher Bennage with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: ASP.NET, source control, development tools