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August 2006 - Posts

• MOSS: Installing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

  A couple of resources for (re-)installing MOSS Read More... Posted 29 August 2006 16:18 by john.rayner | 0 Comments Filed under: MOSS

• Setup of a continuous integration build

  I thought I'd document our continuous integration build, since we had to pull together a number of libraries from different sources in order to get it working. This is quite a long post, but there was quite a lot to do ... :-) Solution background Read More... Posted 24 August 2006 14:11 by john.rayner | 24 Comments Filed under: Continuous integration, Continuous build, CC.Net, Engineering practices, CruiseControl.Net Attachment(s): FxCopReport.xsl.xml

• Partial architectures are dangerous

  Once development work begins on a project, there is no such thing as a partially designed architecture - there are only partially complete architectures and these are dangerous. Let me explain the distinction and why it's important. Firstly, let me admit Read More... Posted 15 August 2006 13:03 by john.rayner | 1 Comments

• Reflection on Generic Types

  I really love Generics in .Net 2.0 - I think they're great. They remove a lot of that nasty casting to objects which we had to do in .Net 1.x and they generally improve type-safety. However, I recently hit a problem when trying to do some reflection against Read More... Posted 07 August 2006 18:04 by john.rayner | 2 Comments Filed under: C# 2.0, CLR 2.0

• An Architect as a creator of structure

  Continuing my recent musings about what defines an architect, I came across this great post from Jon Boxall , a fellow Conchangite (or is it Conchangian?). It's a bit tongue-in-cheek, but his one-line summary is "a software architect is the bloke that Read More... Posted 01 August 2006 09:17 by john.rayner | 0 Comments Filed under: Technical Architect Role