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Managing My Many Hats on GitHub

Martin Woodward
Date : 10 Feb, 2016
Categories :git technology books dotnet maker web personal github

Like many developers, I contribute to open source projects at home – usually to scratch an itch, learn something new or just to contribute to something I love using myself. However, I work for the open source .NET Foundation which means I have a dream job of getting paid to work on open source.

New Gig at the .NET Foundation

Martin Woodward
Date : 03 Apr, 2015
Categories :git technology dotnet web programming

I'm excited to say that today I started a new job as the Executive Director of the .NET Foundation. The .NET Foundation is an independent non-profit organization set up to foster open development, innovation and collaboration around the Microsoft .NET development framework.

Setting up the Perfect Git Command Line Environment on Windows

Martin Woodward
Date : 17 Jan, 2014
Categories :git tfs technology maker web programming personal github

Over the past couple of weeks I’ve had several people ask me about my dev environment for working with Git on Windows so I decided to write it up here for me to point people to. Of course the first thing that you want is Visual Studio 2013 with the built in Git tooling.

Getting Started with LibGit2Sharp

Martin Woodward
Date : 11 May, 2013
Categories :git technology books dotnet maker web programming github

If you want to work with your local Git repositories in some .NET code then LibGit2Sharp is your friend. It’s the open source library used by the Visual Studio Tools for Git and gives you a very idiomatic way to talk to Git from C# or VB.NET.

Eclipse Juno Themes on Windows

Martin Woodward
Date : 22 Jun, 2012
Categories :technology web programming personal

I’ve been running Eclipse Juno regularly since the M5 milestone. One of the things I’ve really noticed is that the default theme for Eclipse Juno on Mac OS X blends in better with other Cocoa applications than Juno looks on my Windows machines.

TFS from the Raspberry Pi

Martin Woodward
Date : 19 Jun, 2012
Categories :tfs technology gadgets maker web programming personal

I just got delivery of my shiny new Raspberry Pi. With-in a few minutes I had it all booted and running a stock Debian “squeeze” image, almost too easy and the performance of the diminutive Raspberry Pi was great.

Community TFS Build Extensions Released

Martin Woodward
Date : 05 Jul, 2011
Categories :git tfs maker web programming

If you are looking to extend Team Foundation Build using workflow activities, then the first thing you should do it take a look at the latest stable release of the Community TFS Build Extensions over on CodePlex.

Eclipse 3.7 (Indigo) with Team Explorer Everywhere 2010 SP1

Martin Woodward
Date : 22 Jun, 2011
Categories :technology maker web personal

As you have probably heard by now, Eclipse 3.7 shipped today. Congratulations to everyone involved. From a personal point of view I’m secretly pleased to see that one of my own bug reports manage to sneak it’s way in to this release as well which I think means I have managed to do my bit and contribute a little...

Creating a HTTPHandler in WebMatrix

Martin Woodward
Date : 18 Jun, 2011
Categories :tfs technology dotnet maker web programming podcast

This weekend I thought I would get round to a project that I’ve been meaning to do for a long time – a new website for the Radio TFS podcast that I do with Mickey and Paul. I haven’t had the chance to play with WebMatrix before so thought that I would give it a try when building the new Radio TFS site.

Incremental Builds with TFS 2010

Martin Woodward
Date : 14 Jun, 2011
Categories :tfs technology maker web programming

When you create a new build definition with TFS 2010 by default it does a clean build for you every time. That is to say that between builds all the source from the previous build is deleted along with the compiled outputs and then the source is downloaded fresh, built and you are good to go.

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