Jonathan Oliver

I started using Microsoft Source Server to more easily debug assemblies. Although I'm a strong TDD/BDD advocate, I still find myself in the debugger, especially when working with our own internal, shared libraries. One of the biggest advantages to using Source Server with Subversion is the ability to quickly and easily retrieve the correct revision of the underlying source code for the assembly being debugged. The majority of the steps are found in MSDN's Bugslayer article. »

The Problem If any of you have ever dealt with external libraries or even your own shared libraries which are used in multiple projects, you've most likely worked with the svn:externals property. Yes, there are a few alternatives such as Piston, among others. All in all, svn:externals is pretty simple, but it does have one simple, but nasty gotcha when working with tags. The idea behind a tag is to have a snapshot in time of your software such that it can be reconstructed at a known state. »

Ayende finally convinced me that it's time to have a blog. He's right, having an online presence matters. For the longest time I've tried convince myself that I can sit quietly in the background and carefully observe without being noticed. During my innumerable searches on various development topics I have almost exclusively found that blogs offer by far the best and most elegant solutions. It is to those bloggers that have been so insightful and as well as any struggling developers that I might help through solutions that I publish that I dedicate this blog. »