Custom deployment scripts - with mstest - for Windows Azure Website git deployment

I just started another project. It is hosted on Windows Azure and I’m using Git deployment for this website. This was very fine and I am extremely impressed how easy it was to get started with it. Then I ran into a little problem. Sidenote: My project relies on NuGet packages, and I, personally, have the strong opinion that compiled stuff does not belong into my source code versioning system. This is why I did not check in the NuGet. Continue reading

Why FireMonkey is so fundamentally wrong in every aspect of it's being

A short time ago I had a harsh twitter argument with Nick Hodges ( @NickHodges) about the FireMonkey framework in Delphi XE4 (you may know that I had the start of my professional career with Delphi and started as a speaker at Delphi conferences). It all started with the definition of ’native’ or - even worse - ’true native’, but let’s start at the beginning. I know the audience of my blog is mostly . Continue reading

Setting up my infrastructure – Part 8: A little bit more evaluation

After a little break I’m back again with the next findings in my little pet project. First of all I wanted to check out the build servers before diving into the bug trackers. So I set up the first assembly for my project, with just one class and a unit test for it. As I already mentioned in my requirements it is a .NET project and I want to have at least the very basics (building, unit testing etc. Continue reading

I'm done with Drobo, too...

I made a mistake. A big mistake. Something I can correct, and which I will correct very soon. My mistake? I already teasered it in my last post about my pet project: I bought a Drobo S as a storage solution. The Drobo S is the predecessor of the current Drobo 5D. The title of this post is a clone of the I’m done with Drobo post of Scott Kelby. In this post he describes that he had some issues with his Drobo. Continue reading

Setting up my infrastructure – Part 7: The evaluation begins: Installations

After I picked the evaluation candidates I first tried a test-setup on a development VM at home. Download For this I downloaded the evaluation products from the Atlassian homepage and the free installers from JetBrains. Please note the slight difference between a ‘product’ and an ‘installer’ download. I wanted to do a side-by-side installation of all tools on the same VM to compare them easily. Just as a little side-note, I will do a blog post on my hardware that drove me crazy during the evaluation. Continue reading

Why I don't post pictures of my daughter in social networks

I’ve been asked a few times why I don’t share pictures (or any data) of my little daughter on the intertubes. Well, it is not true that there is not a single one of her available. If you know a few not publicly available details and where to look / what to search for, you may be able to find a single image showing just her. And there is one other picture she happens to be visible on, and that is my wife’s Facebook profile picture that shows our whole family at our wedding. Continue reading

Setting up my infrastructure - Part 6: The evaluation candidates

In this post I want to introduce the evaluation candidates for the bug tracker and the continuous integration software I’m going to use for my pet project. Since I want to spent not too much time on my infrastructure, I just want to check out two or three candidates for each, and I already have a list of bug trackers I’m definitely not going to use, so I start with them first. Continue reading