We’ve just pushed out version 2.0 of our open-source, component composition framework. This is the framework we use internally day-in, day-out for our dependency injection. The previous version had a dependency on Castle Windsor, but in this new version we have implemented our own container. There are a few reasons we decided to take this [...]

Part 1 of the series talked about Different Branching Models. Part 2 covered GitFlow – a Branching Model for a Release Cycle and part 3 covered all the GitFlow Commands. In this final part of this series about adopting GitFlow, we’re going to cover how we can use the exciting new feature branching abilities of TeamCity 7.1 to allow [...]

In part 1 of the series I talked about the difference in branching models inherent with the different types of version control system. In part 2 I talked about the problems inherent in the software development, release and support cycle and how GitFlow was designed as a workflow to try and solve or at the [...]

In Part 1 – I covered off a brief overview of the branching model differences between TFS and Git. One of the most interesting developments to happen in the Git ecosystem (apart from its growing adoption rate) is the creation of the Git Flow branching model and its embodiment as an plugin extension to the core Git client libraries. [...]

When we setup endjin in 2010, there were five activities we did on day one: set up a business bank account, set up a FreeAgent account, for all our accounting needs signed up for Office 365 (or BPOS as it was then), registered the endjin GitHub account built a virtualised Continuous Integration Environment using TeamCity. [...]

  So the first real work started yesterday afternoon with an introduction to PowerShell. Since all new employees are required to sign up to variety of web services (Office 365, YouTrack, GitHub, WordPress, TeamCity, IPCop), it would save time to write a script to automate this on-boarding process. Starting with YouTrack, by using the web [...]

Last week I was formally invited to become a member of the JetBrains Development Academy Board – to celebrate, I decided to give something back to the community that has a JetBrains flavour. As I mentioned in my last post – we’ve been doing a lot of ALM / DevOps work in the last year [...]

In the last 12 months we’ve been doing quite a lot of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) projects helping teams setup Continuous Delivery processes. One of the tenets of Continuous Delivery is “Automate Everything” – which has been a core part of my “work smarter, not harder” ethic for a number of years. The technology that [...]

A few weeks ago Geoffrey Smith, the Sharp Architecture Development Lead and I were invited onto .NET Rocks! to be interviewed about the Sharp Architecture project. After we talked about Sharp Architecture – the conversation lead on to other open source projects I’ve been involved with such as Templify and StyleCop for ReSharper. You can listen to the [...]

In 2008 Microsoft released Source Analysis a tool to help solve the thorny problem of coding standards in C# projects, soon afterwards they re-launched it using it’s original internal Microsoft name, StyleCop (to avoid confusion with the TFS Code Analysis tools), along with an SDK that allowed the community to extend the product. In May [...]