Whoo boy it's been a while

As you can tell it's been a while since my last blog (not counting my shameless plug for some free software.)

As sad as it is to admit, the "real world" interfered with my plans. Neo where are you when I need you.

A lot's happened since I last worked on anything. Primarily, Whidbey has been released in a couple flavours. First the PDC bits, then, more recently, the VS 2005 Community Tech Preview. I figured it would be an excellent opportunity to use the next version of the tools and start HookUp over again. Let's face it, at the pace I'm going I'll hit version 1.0 right around the time that VS 2020 comes out.

This also provides an opportunity to start a "proper" Test Driven Development (TDD) project. I've done a fair amount with NUnit while pretending to do TDD, but to be honest it was more of a TSAABOCIWD approach (Test Sometime After A Bunch Of Code Is Written Development.)

I plan to hook in NUnit from the start. Also I will be making use of FxCop which is currently at version 1.30. There's no better time to start.

Following the advice of a number of blogs I've avoided SourceSafe this time. I played briefly with Subversion and TortoiseSVN with limited success. After a few dozen pages of docs I got my heirarchy set up and was starting to get accustomed to the environment when I corrupted my database. Not a great start. It's a crying shame too, the integration was nice.

So, instead, I switched to Vault. It appealed to me for a couple reasons: 1) it's a commercial product, so hopefully is more stable (fingers are crossed.) 2) it's free for single users. The drawback I see is the need for a SQL server. Since I'm running the Whidbey stuff in a VPC instance the extra cycles for SQL server hurt a bit.

I'll leave it there for now. Wish me luck

[Listening to: Puddle of Mudd - Bring me Down]