http://www.mattvv.com the software development journey Wed, 24 Mar 2010 01:36:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I woke up this morning and checked my phone, 7 Tests failed. My initial reaction was anger,  wondering which poor developer I would smack for this change (Luckily the developer was located in poland so smacking is out of the question). However, as I pulled up my teamcity page, located the ... http://www.mattvv.com/yet-another-example-of-tdds-brilliance/ If you've been following all the action on github - a colleague (krisw) and I have been building a high level cassandra client for C# & .NET (Hector Sharp). We're still quite young in development and you can see our to-do list is full of funny things such as 'make compile'. One ... http://www.mattvv.com/hosting-cassandra-on-windows/ I have been using a beta version of JetBrains TeamCity for the past six months and i've come to love and loathe some of it's features. For the past few months, one of the primary uses for using TeamCity has been the ability to run the entire projects tests immediately ... http://www.mattvv.com/automating-your-build-process-with-capistrano-teamcity/ Here's the quickest way I found to enable flash 10 support on google chrome for x64 linux. Get the latest version of flash x64 for linux from http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10_64bit.html Extract the libflashplayer.so file to your chrome plugins directory. Mine is /opt/google/chrome/plugins In your launcher for chrome add the following --enable-plugins %U That's the skinny http://www.mattvv.com/flash-10-with-google-chrome-on-linux-64bit/ Being a bit a tiny bit obsessed with continuous integration I had set up a automated daily build to hit the staging environment every day. One fatal mistake I have made with this is to ensure all tests pass before running the build. While this might seem like a good idea at first, having a staging/qa environment ... http://www.mattvv.com/build-servers-in-a-tdd-environment/ I haven't posted on here for so long i'm going to attempt a new approach which is - shorter posts, maybe this will be less daunting for me. Anyway, i've been having alot of trouble with stability on rubymine on my machine which is running fedora 12 so I just did ... http://www.mattvv.com/rubymine-linux/ My co-worker (Kris) and I have been evaluating several OR/M apporaches for our current refactoring of a system that is very clumsy. The current system is an artifact of poor design and uses a very clumsy EF apporach in which business layer information is skewed across all layers on the ... http://www.mattvv.com/orm-descision/ Sadly this entire weekend i've been living at the speeds of dialup - you know those speeds where you can't even attach an image to your blog post or email because it fails? I've been reduced to doing most of my important browsing through my iPhone - can anyone recommend any ... http://www.mattvv.com/time-warner-cable-fails/ So it feels like it's been an eternity since I was fortunate enough to recieve a greencard in the Greencard lottery, and the following actions occured after which; I quit my well paying job at Internet Software provider Channel Advisor and set out to discover the rest of ... http://www.mattvv.com/self-learning-ddd/ Ok so I got a ltitle sick of the BlogSVC.NET Application and found it a little limiting, after reviewing most of the blogs i've decided to try out wordpress. After a little bit of work I got a nice little design going here - and I plan on getting some nifty ... http://www.mattvv.com/installed-wordpress/