Dave Laribee

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• OMG Rake!

  Rake is just... lovely . There's no other way to describe it. I just moved our XEVA Framework to rake and ended up with this build script weighing in at only 35 lines: Check out the :harvest task where I'm requiring an external file that's... Posted Aug 25 2008, 10:29 PM by Dave Laribee with | with 16 comment(s) Filed under: builds, rake, Ruby, tools

• Early Tool Theory

  I got into a series of interesting conversations with the usual suspects , Austin edition , about tools . I wouldn't say we covered what I'm about to outline here in totality; these snippets are only starting to coalesce and firm up in my mind... Posted Apr 03 2008, 09:38 PM by Dave Laribee with | with 12 comment(s) Filed under: lean, opinion, tools

• Folder != Namespace

  Update: turns out this is a R# feature not a VS feature. Thanks Andy! Here's something I discovered in Visual Studio some time ago: Seems you can select one or more folders and turn off their "namespace provider." This can save you a few... Posted Dec 18 2007, 10:49 AM by Dave Laribee with | with 36 comment(s) Filed under: resharper, tips, tools, visual studio

• Blogging Technical Documentation

  Tom Opgenorth opines and asks about technical documentation on the ALT.NET list : ...on this contract I'm leaving, there really isn't a lot of staff, nor is there a lot of format familiarity with some of the design patterns (hence my desire to... Posted Nov 06 2007, 04:23 PM by Dave Laribee with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: Agile, blogs, documentation, tools, wikis, XP

• Finding Assembly-level Dependencies With R#

  Here's a little nuance to ReSharper that I really like and use quite a lot. Find a reference under the "References" node of any Visual Studio project. Pick a referenced assembly, right click, and select "Find Dependent Code." This... Posted Oct 22 2007, 01:40 PM by Dave Laribee with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: dependencies, ndepend, resharper, tips, tools