This is the first of several posts in which I’d like to share some of the things we decided throughout 14 sprint retrospective. Some of them might appear as open doors, but I wish I knew or thought about those before I started that project. Just by looking back at the mistakes a team of 9 developers and one tester in a period of 12 months made, they apparently aren’t that obvious.
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Indeed it is, in particular within the part of the .NET community that believes test-first development is non-negotiable. We receive more and more suggestions, contributions and questions, and we’ve started to notice some blog posts here and there.
It’s not that it is being downloaded thousands of times per month, but since its first release in February 2010 it has been downloaded 1738 times through CodePlex. The biggest increase was caused by NuGet though. Since we’ve uploaded our first NuGet package in January this year, it counted 2863 downloads. That’s more than enough to make us happy.
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For most of us displaying the current date and time is summed up in the following statement: DateTime.Now;
No big deal, but what happens if the time that is displayed is of by a hour? Well most of us would check to see what the machines timezone is and adjust the timezone of the machine to the correct timezone.
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For one of my projects at work I’m trying to figure out what the best way of sending email from a Windows Azure application is.
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Installed the azure 1.5 SDK yesterday. When I tried to start my simple web role on my development fabric it was taking forever and would eventually end with the message: Windows Azure Tools: Unable to connect to dfService.
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