Like a runaway freight train

That’s how it sounds. And it’s my first new guitar in over 16 years. It’s an American Standard Telecaster — they’ve gone back to the brass bridge, but no palm-shredding ashtray bullshit. There were roughly 26 of these in the Guitar Center, Boston location and I asked to play every damned one. The same song. For 2 hours. This is the pick of the litter. 3-tone Sunburst. If Bryan Adams had an extra $100 he wouldn’t have settled for the crappy black one back when I was 14.

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Continuous Integration with Subversion, CruiseControl.NET, MSBuild, and NuGet

I really dig the idea of NuGet packages being produced and published by an automated CI build system. While we’ve all been doing CI for years, standardized packaging and distribution options in .NET for large and complex project trees are still fairly few in number. For the most part, build systems spit out .DLLs and .EXEs, perhaps a .ZIP, and occasionally an .MSI file capable of bootstrapping a production server or a developer workstation in more sophisticated examples. It’s that last bit where NuGet rocks — the framework provides an easy peasy way to publish and distribute your libraries to developer workstations, and eventually into the builds of projects that use them. Note: Scott Hanselman recently wrote a blog post describing a very similar CI build system — [...]

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Some things are just too good to not share.

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Sitting here in my #40 Peyton Hillis jersey, watching my beloved Cleveland Browns drop to 5-10 on the season, and drinking a third Victory Storm King stout, there’s an oddly warm and comforting thought frantically pacing back and forth in the back of my mind like a big, pissed off cat in a cage: we’re one game away from the finale to Eric Mangini’s Reign of Utter Ineptitude and Malicious Campaign to Retard the Quality of Football in the Greater Cleveland Area. Next week will be the last time we will ever have to endure the sight of his talentless moobs slathered with orange and brown like a $20 call girl wearing homemade pasties and lisping bad jokes into the huddle from a headset on the sidelines. (Did [...]

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