Posted by Seth on March 14th, 2006
No, I’m not going to proffer any sage advice because I’m still banging away trying to do this myself, but Dirk Knemeyer at Digital Web has a great article with some insights for budding tech entrepreneurs, including “Five Steps Before Making the Leap”:
- Test the business viability of what you want to do
- Decide whether you want to run your company solo, or enlist the help of business partners
- Set and articulate a vision
- Create a powerful identity
- If you are creating a services firm, try to start with clients you already have
Sound advice for any business, really, not specifically a Web 2.0 startup.
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Posted by Seth on March 14th, 2006
I installed Subversion tonight. Took about five minutes and I was up and running with all the latest and greatest. I used the Subversion 1-Click Setup at Tigris. It installs Subversion as a service, TortoiseSVN and all the command-line utilities.
The Subversion Book is surprising well written for open-source documentation and provides a good Subversion for CVS Users guide.
Another great resource is James Higg’s blog. Drop by his blog if you need some pointers to more information.
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Posted by Seth on March 13th, 2006
I’ve decided to release the UrlRewriter.NET product for free now, and make it open source. Hopefully with it being free and open source, it will receive the coverage it deserves.
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Posted by Seth on March 11th, 2006
The TestDriven.NET tool is fantastic. I love the agility it gives you, as you can quickly build your unit tests, write your code and at a right-click, you can run your unit tests from Visual Studio.
One of the problems it currently has (I notice somebody has asked for this in their wishlist) is custom configuration. If the code you’re testing requires settings that would normally be in your web.config or App.config file, you have to ensure these settings are in a file called <your-assembly-name>.dll.config in your bin\Debug directory. A bit inconvenient. NUnit allows you to have a .config file in the root of your project with the same name as your project (e.g., Foo.Bar.config), so why should you do without this feature in Visual Studio?
Well, until the author adds this enhancement (hopefully soon), one workaround I’ve come across for this is to create a Post-Build event in Visual Studio.NET, which copies the config file from the root of your project to the required place in your bin directory.
To set this up, right-click Properties on your Project in Visual Studio.NET. Under Common Properties, click on Build Events. In the Post-build Event Command Line property, add the following: copy $(ProjectDir)$(ProjectName).config $(TargetPath).config
Then, whenever you have a successful build, your latest config changes will be available to TestDriven.NET’s in-built TestRunner.
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