Gary Woodfine is a freelance .net developer based in Haslemere, Surrey , United Kingdom. Over 15 years experience in software development, predominantly specialising in ASP.net for the last 8 years.
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I am undertaking a new development project and have decided to try out Team City 5.0 as the CI tool. This post serves as a reminder to a future self on how to go about setting up the project. In the project I will also be using all the good things i.e Subversion, nAnt, nHibernate, Resharper, nUnit, Rhino mocks, castle windsor, WCF, WPF, MVC , kitchen sink blah blah etc. I will also be setting all these up from scratch as opposed to using framework like Sharp Architecture etc. Read More »
I am undertaking a new development project and have decided to try out Team City 5.0 as the CI tool. This post serves as a reminder to a future self on how to go about setting up the project. In the project I will also be using all the good things i.e Subversion, nAnt, nHibernate, Resharper, nUnit, Rhino mocks, castle windsor, WCF, WPF, MVC , kitchen sink blah blah etc. I will also be setting all these up from scratch as opposed to using framework like Sharp Architecture etc.
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My points of view on agile software development process. Read More »
My points of view on agile software development process.
I have started a new journey over the last few days. I have found some great resources that have helped me get to know this technology real quick. Read More »
I have started a new journey over the last few days. I have found some great resources that have helped me get to know this technology real quick.
My little rant about the most useless piece of software that I have ever had the displeasure of using. Read More »
My little rant about the most useless piece of software that I have ever had the displeasure of using.
I was asked this question by one of my non technical oriented clients this week, and although I managed to answer the question for him in layman terms, I was rather intrigued by what the complete technical answer would have been to this question. The question led me on a trail of defining the technical answer to this question. Read More »
I was asked this question by one of my non technical oriented clients this week, and although I managed to answer the question for him in layman terms, I was rather intrigued by what the complete technical answer would have been to this question. The question led me on a trail of defining the technical answer to this question.
If you’re like me and often have to perform website maintenance for clients. Normally part of this maintenance task is to understand the structure the predecessor webmaster had created and you often need to find out which pages are actually live and which files can be removed, this little tip can save you hours of work. Read More »
If you’re like me and often have to perform website maintenance for clients. Normally part of this maintenance task is to understand the structure the predecessor webmaster had created and you often need to find out which pages are actually live and which files can be removed, this little tip can save you hours of work.
I came across this the other day while surfing around reading blogs regarding my current favourite subject “Service Oriented Architecture” , I thought it contains some good assumptions to avoid when developing WCF services. Read More »
I came across this the other day while surfing around reading blogs regarding my current favourite subject “Service Oriented Architecture” , I thought it contains some good assumptions to avoid when developing WCF services.
In this post I provide detail on how to move your production install to your localhost and how to recover from a bug in DNN 5.0 Read More »
In this post I provide detail on how to move your production install to your localhost and how to recover from a bug in DNN 5.0
I have been mucking about with Last.Fm a lot lately. I started looking at the API’s for the service, and I noticed they are using REST as an architectural style for the web services. I thought I would just try elaborate the differences and approaches between REST and SOAP. Read More »
I have been mucking about with Last.Fm a lot lately. I started looking at the API’s for the service, and I noticed they are using REST as an architectural style for the web services. I thought I would just try elaborate the differences and approaches between REST and SOAP.
In this post I provide a little insight into the ADO.net entity framework and provide high level explanations to the concepts it addresses. Read More »
In this post I provide a little insight into the ADO.net entity framework and provide high level explanations to the concepts it addresses.