(image taken from Scoble’s Photostream) Microsoft are now offering a deployment tool to assist with the scary XCOPY-style deployments of .NET web applications. I’m old enough to have used XCOPY in DOS. It always seemed a little backwards to me: invest millions and millions in a language and platform to take on Java, and still [...]
(image taken from Nancy’s photostream) You’re almost there. There’s a single character in a single file that you need to change and you think the deployment is good to go. “There’s no need to do a whole CI build and bother the QA’s for this one”, you think. “I’ll just make the change against this [...]
This blog has the coolest name that I have seen in a while. Chris Poirier talks about writing a DSL for deploying a system across many hosts. We need more of these. Link