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I know it has been a long time, but I have been doing several things at the same time. One of them is the reason for this post. I've started writing a book on reducing friction.  Friction meaning the kind of things that slow down software development projects, specially focused on agile practices. You can read more about the book and keep ...

Hey my three readers? How have you guys been? Hope you're good! :) It's that time again! The time when I come back from a long ''non-writing'' period. Usually when I'm not writing blog posts it means I'm working on something. This time I've been working in a couple things, though. The one that matters for this post is Stormwind.Accuracy, our ...

Once more my friend Claudio Figueiredo amazed me coming up with a brilliant solution to a problem that was starting to shadow an otherwise brilliant implementation of the MVC Pattern. The new ASP.Net MVC Framework allows you to specify Action Filters. You can learn more about them in his post here (and check his solution to this problem as ...

This week I learned that there are still people using NMVP, which is really cool. One of those people asked me if I would release another version of NMVP soon. Well, I'm not sure how soon, but there are plans of releasing an improved version of NMVP. To make things easier on users of NMVP to communicate with the team, we've set up two channels. ...

Releases 0.2.0.0 and 0.2.1.0 of Stormwind.NAnt are out! You can check the releases, and release notes for 0.2.0.0 and 0.2.1.0. These releases build on the foundation of Stormwind.NAnt to add two nice methods to it: WithNAntExe and WithWorkingDirectory. Excerpt from using.stormwindproject.org: WithNAntExeIn Usage SvnClient.WithNAntExeIn(string ...

Stormwind gets another sponsor We just got another heavyweight sponsor, and this time it's literal: Atlassian is our new sponsor. These guys make amazing software, some of which you might know: Jira, Confluence, FishEye and others. They are not just a great software development company, but they are a company that gives back to the community that ...

My good friend, Claudio Figueiredo, reminded me that I shouldn't choose a tool that's so important to us without trying a few of them (god damn you for giving me more work, though, lol). So I decided on trying JetBrains TeamCity, as JetBrains has been a sponsor of Stormwind Project since the very beginning. Introduction First of all, I liked the ...

More exciting news today! Another Release of AccuracyThis one is just a refactoring release (moved some actions to the correct namespace). The new version is 0.1.1.20 and you can get it here: binaries and references. Using Accuracy Today I've started writing the contents of the using.stormwindproject.org wiki on how to use Stormwind.Accuracy. You ...

Well I have some good news today! Accuracy 0.1.0.18 First, Accuracy has reached a point where we can release it. Version 0.1.0.18 (binaries and references) is just out of the oven. Get it while it's hot! This version includes several syntax improvements, all of which I plan on publishing in the Accuracy wiki in ...

KickAssVPS is an active sponsor of Stormwind Project. Without their support much of what we do would be impossible. My post is not about their attitude towards us, which is by itself amazing, since they are granting us expensive resources (A VPS with a Dual Core CPU and 2gigs of Ram, with unlimited traffic) for free. My post is about the ...

After I got my tests passing in JsUnit, I decided I needed to automate the execution of the JavaScript Unit Tests for Fjords(more on that in a later post). So, the only way I could think of doing that was to drive the browser to the JsUnit Test Runner page and type the correct parameters. Thank god I have an amazing Browser Driver called ...

I tend to write titles using additions and equals... Hmm... Guess I like simple math... Who knows? Anyway, I want to stress out today how cool I find Monorail right now! I always thought it was a cool framework, but after I wired my controllers through Windsor (which allowed me to use my repositories, services and factories in the controllers), ...

What? Another Stormwind project?! Are you crazy? Are you trying to set some sort of record? Don't you want to finish the ones there first? I just quoted those imaginary sentences to scare that thought away from me. I like to think that I am an individual with good ideas. So as the ideas come in I try to work them out. Today I just finished a ...