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Chocolatey Automatic Packages

I updated three packages this morning. I didn’t even notice until the tweets came in from @chocolateynuget . How is this possible? It’s simple. I love automation. I built chocolatey to take advantage of automation. So it would make sense that we could...

Published 01-03-2013 1:15 AM by Rob Reynolds

Filed under: HowTo, chocolatey
this.Log– Source, NuGet Package & Performance

Recently I mentioned this.Log . Given the amount of folks that were interested in this.Log, I decided to pull this source out and make a NuGet package (well, several packages). Source The source is now located at https://github.com/ferventcoder/this.log...

Published 12-19-2012 11:24 PM by Rob Reynolds

Filed under: Development, .NET, NuGet
Introducing this.Log

One of my favorite creations over the past year has been this.Log(). It works everywhere including static methods and in razor views. Everything about how to create it and set it up is in this gist . How it looks public class SomeClass { public void SomeMethod...

Published 12-15-2012 9:29 AM by Rob Reynolds

Filed under: .NET, NuGet
Super D to the B to the A – AKA Script for reducing the size of a database

The following is a script that I used to help me clean up a database and reduce the size of it from 95MB down to 3MB so we could use it for a development backup. I will note that we also removed some of the data out. I shared this with a friend recently...

Published 12-14-2012 9:50 AM by Rob Reynolds

Filed under: HowTo, Database
Refresh Database–Speed up Your Development Cycles

Refresh database is an workflow that allows you to develop with a migrations framework, but deploy with SQL files. It’s more than that, it allows you to rapidly make changes to your environment and sync up with other teammates. When I am talking about...

Published 12-12-2012 4:40 PM by Rob Reynolds

Filed under: NHibernate, Fluent NHibernate, RoundhousE, Tools, .NET, EntityFramework
Chocolatey featured on LifeHacker!

Chocolatey was just featured on LifeHacker! http://lifehacker.com/5942417/chocolatey-brings-lightning-quick-linux+style-package-management-to-windows I was ecstatic to hear about this, of course now I need to write an actual comparison between chocolatey...

Published 09-12-2012 9:44 AM by Rob Reynolds

Filed under: Tools, Events, News, chocolatey
Remote Work: Placeshift and Stay Highly Collaborative Part 2–Focus on YOU

Companies want to hire the type of person that is cut out to be a remote worker. The type of person that can be a remote worker is the type of person that excels at their work and that is what companies are always looking for. In the first part of this...

Published 07-28-2012 6:50 AM by Rob Reynolds

Filed under: HowTo, News
Remote Work: Placeshift and Stay Highly Collaborative Part 1

The biggest complaint most remote workers have in regards to working on a team? Feeling disconnected. The biggest complaint an office has about remote workers? They forget the remote workers are there and don’t always trust what they are doing. Want to...

Published 03-10-2012 8:38 AM by Rob Reynolds

Filed under: HowTo, News
Chocolatey - Guidance on Packaging Apps with Both an Install and Executable/Zip Option

One of the thoughts I've been considering recently with chocolatey is consistency with packages and naming conventions as chocolatey continues to grow. It's fine to name packages by the app/tool name, that's both intuitive and expected. What...

Published 02-25-2012 11:35 AM by Rob Reynolds

Filed under: HowTo, Tools, .NET, NuGet, chocolatey
Software Release Management - Why You Can’t And Shouldn’t Force People to Use the Latest Version

As software creators we don't get to decide what version of our tools / libraries that people use. If we try to force them, our users will go somewhere else. Update: What Type of Software This Applies To This post talks of tools, applications and...

Published 01-25-2012 10:29 AM by Rob Reynolds

Filed under: Development, Tools, .NET, Gems, NuGet
DropkicK–Deploy Fluently

DropkicK (DK) has been in development for over two years and has been used for production deployments for over a year. Dru Sellers originally posted about DK back in 2009 . While DK isn’t yet as super easy to grok as some of the other ChuckNorrisFramework...

Published 10-23-2011 10:52 AM by Rob Reynolds

Filed under: HowTo, Tools, .NET, DropkicK
RoundhousE–Intelligent Database Migrations And Versioning

“Because everyone wants to kick their database, but sometimes kicking your database is a good thing!” Many would not argue that you should version your code, and few would argue against versioning your code in a way that can lead back to a...

Published 10-23-2011 10:21 AM by Rob Reynolds

Filed under: RoundhousE, Development, Tools, .NET
Let’s Get Chocolatey! Kind of like apt-get for Windows

“If only there was some way to quickly and silently install applications and tools on my windows machine.” Chocolatey is kind of like an apt-get, but for Windows. It is a machine level package manager that is built on top of NuGet command line and the...

Published 10-07-2011 7:32 AM by Rob Reynolds

Filed under: Git, Tools, .NET, Agile, Gems, NuGet
Extend NuGet Command Line

Yesterday I started a discussion about adding a new command to nuget.exe . It ended in creating an extension to the command line that behaves in the same way without having to dive into the nuget code base or add more complexity to it. I haven’t...

Published 07-15-2011 3:00 AM by Rob Reynolds

Filed under: Tools, .NET, NuGet
Iowa Code Camp Presentations

Last weekend I went up to Iowa Code Camp in Cedar Rapids and had the opportunity to do two presentations, one on NuGet and one known as the Automation Tools Roundup. ICC is one of my favorite conferences every year. It is twice a year and I try...

Published 05-06-2011 12:04 AM by Rob Reynolds

Filed under: HowTo, Tools, .NET, Events, NuGet

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Chocolatey Automatic Packages

this.Log– Source, NuGet Package & Performance

Introducing this.Log

Super D to the B to the A – AKA Script for reducing the size of a database

Refresh Database–Speed up Your Development Cycles

Chocolatey featured on LifeHacker!

Remote Work: Placeshift and Stay Highly Collaborative Part 2–Focus on YOU

Remote Work: Placeshift and Stay Highly Collaborative Part 1

Chocolatey - Guidance on Packaging Apps with Both an Install and Executable/Zip Option

Software Release Management - Why You Can’t And Shouldn’t Force People to Use the Latest Version

DropkicK–Deploy Fluently

RoundhousE–Intelligent Database Migrations And Versioning

Let’s Get Chocolatey! Kind of like apt-get for Windows

Extend NuGet Command Line

Iowa Code Camp Presentations