There has been a lot of talk recently about the role of open source software (OSS) in the NHS and the govenment has recently published a procurement toolkit which aims to push the public sector towards procuring open source solution … Continued
Posts by Will Holley
Does being isolated lead to a better codebase?
For the last 5 months I’ve been halfway across the world on sabbatical from Bluewire. I’ve been observing the development of Epro back in Bristol and doing bits of work here and there to keep myself familiar with the codebase. … Continued
Thoughts on SNOMED CT – a supplier’s perspective
The Information Standards Board have recently approved SNOMED CT (SCT) as a “fundemantal standard”, almost 10 years since its inception. At Bluewire, we would consider ourselves early adopters of the terminology – both Adam and I went on training courses back … Continued
Alt.NET Bristol Beers #2
Alt.NET Bristol Beers #2 will take place at the Portcullis on Wednesday 16th September! Following the success of the first evening, we’re sticking to the same venue and format (we’re assured there will be food this time!). We’ll be voting … Continued
Alt.NET Bristol Ning
Thanks to everybody who came to Alt.NET Bristol beers last night! All of us at Bluewire had a lot of fun and everybody I spoke to was keen to do it again, so I’ve created a Ning page for us. … Continued
Alt.NET Bristol Beers #1 – Tuesday 21st July 2009
What: Alt.NET Beers! When: Tuesday 21st July 2009 Where: Upstairs at The Portcullis, Clifton, Bristol, BS8 4LE If spending an evening drinking beer and talking Alt.NET is your thing, then come along to the inaugural Alt.NET Bristol beers at the … Continued
WPF designer gotcha when setting TextDecorations in triggers
I just came accross a nasty gotcha with the Visual Studio 2008 WPF designer (Cider). When setting the TextDecorations property for a control using a trigger, the following code will work at runtime, but the designer will complain with “Must … Continued
JSUnit MSBuild task
This is just a quick post to describe how to use the JSUnit MSBuild task (which you can download here). JSUnit currently ships with JUnit fixtures and ant wrappers to call these – this is essentially an MSBuild task wrapper … Continued
TeamCity MSBuild tasks
For our latest product, we’ve switched over from CC.NET to the excellent TeamCity continuous integration server from JetBrains, which, as of version 3, is free for small projects like ours. One of the nice aspects of TC is that it’s … Continued
Microsoft don’t get it
This post from Jamie Cansdale, the author of TestDriven.NET, just goes to show how much MS misunderstand about how to treat their developer community. I realise they provide a huge amount of their own development material and resources to us, … Continued