December 2011
3 posts
.net project structure and build time statistics...
(Continued from Part 1) So, nothing like some hard figures to help sharpen the mind… Test 1 This test was centred around project structure… that is, the number of csproj’s and the type of references each held to each other. Our test machine was an i7 with 8 gigs of RAM and a 7200pm HDD, each run was held after a fresh reboot, no other programs running (save a terminal...
Dec 28th
.net project structure and build time statistics...
So, my current role has us dealing with a build, deployment and integration test cycle of about 2 hours. Given the 50-odd developers spread across 6-7 teams, this is not a particularly nice situation. Apart from it being a PITA, a feedback loop of this length results in plenty of negative consequences, a selection of which include: feature branching (esp to mitigate cross team dependencies during...
Dec 22nd
portable .net development
I’ve had to setup my dev environment on a few different machines recently. Quite a simple, but repetitive exercise, so I decided to see if I could make it completely portable. The TL;DR of it is that you can’t completely - but you can to a certain extent. Here’s what I’ve managed to do so far:  a) File sync I’m using SpiderOak currently. DropBox only lets you...
Dec 7th