Last night I attended CloudCamp Sydney. It was pitched as an “unconference” format where quick 5 mins presentations are made and upon completion the attendees outline points they wish to speak about. Those ideas are grouped into categories and then breakout sessions are created. Conceptually the idea is great however, when we got to those [...]
Running MSBuild 4.0 and MSBuild 3.5 on Continuous Integration
With Visual Studio 2010 RC released recently, we jumped on the release and began to code with VS2010. One issue that popped up was that now all builds were targeting MSBuild 4.0. That doesn’t seem to be a big problem until our CruiseControl CI server kicked in, downloaded our updated code and failed building the [...]
The StartupCamp III Experience and ChefMeUp.com
On Friday 19th February 2010, a group of 38 individual gather to race through the next 2 nights and 3 days to build, demo and pitch new concepts, ideas and ultimately demonstrate innovation. Yes, I was one of these 38, enduring two days with only 2.5 hours of sleep. Nothing else mattered, but delivering the [...]
IDP Solutions Sponsors Online Retailer Exhibition
IDP Solutions’ new soon to be released product, MYOBSync is the driving force in deciding to sponsor and exhibit at the 2nd annual Online Retailer Expo and Conferenceto be held in Sydney in July.
NetRegistry Reseller API with .Net 3.5 WCF Service
Background Web services are not a new topic for web developers. Companies are slowly embracing this technology and are moving to incorporating them in their service offering. The beauty of web services is it makes available to developers the functionally and flexibility needed to come up with innovative tools and solutions. NetRegistry have just release [...]
CHEP Pallet Management System
Well, another nice day in the office today… just finalised the last minute touches on our asset management system solution, that is due for a demo anytime now. very happy with the results so far.
ASP.Net Continuous Integration and Deployment
I am looking at automating the nightly builds of our web application and it would be really nice if we can deploy the successful build to a test server. the scenario is: Every night at a particular hour, the source code will be updated from our SVN server. Then a build goes down using a [...]
Director and Senior Consultant at IDP Solution, specialising in .Net application development and solution architect.