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Wix

April 10th, 2008 by bri

Over the past few days I’ve been looking into Wix. It basically enables you to create a fully-fledged msi package, with or without a user interface. You simply describe what you need using an xml file - then go through a compiling and linking procedure to create the msi file.
Great stuff - I […]

SharpDevelop (a.ka. #develop):

March 14th, 2008 by bri

After discussions within Smartercode about investigating the ASP.Net MVC Framework, I decided to find out how the #develop project is coming along.
The thought process being, that it would be nice if the new Framework could fit in with #develop, meaning there would be no need to upgrade to Visual Studio 2008.
The good news is that […]

New Site Live

January 19th, 2008 by bri

Well it’s only taken a few weeks and the new Smartercode site is now Live!
The Django development has gone really well - from the initial project setup to more complex tasks such as integrating with the Blog database back-end. I’m definitely recommending it as a platform that enables you to get up and running […]

Agile Roller Skates

November 18th, 2007 by bri

It’s always worth keeping up with Martin Fowler’s latest comments on the state of Agile development. One post I particularly like can be found on his blog : RollerSkateImplementation
Development teams and project managers could learn a lot from this post - i.e. don’t try to deliver 100% of the product all in one […]