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SemVer, NuGet, and Nightly Builds

Editor — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 07:00:00 +0000

Recently, a group of covert ninjas within my organization started to investigate what it would take to change our internal build and continuous integration systems (CI) to take advantage of NuGet for many of our products, and I need your input! Hmm, off by one error slays me again. -Image from Ask A Ninja. Click on the image to visit. Ok, they’re not really covert ninjas, that just sounds much cooler than a team of slightly pudgy software developers. Ok, they’ve told me to speak for myself, they’re in great shape! In response to popular demand, we changed our minds and decided to support Semantic Versioning (SemVer) as the means to specify pre-release packages for the next version of NuGet (1.6). In part, this is the cause of the delay for this…(read more)

If You’re Graduating Soon, Consider Working For The ASP.NET Team

Editor — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 04:51:18 +0000

This is the second job posting in two days for positions on the ASP.NET team, how exciting! This one is a developer position for upcoming graduates. Before I continue, I need to fulfill a promise to a co-worker to include a barely relevant stock photograph in this blog post. Good, with that out of the way, allow me to continue. If you are in college or grad school, graduating in 2010, and are looking for a great job writing code for ASP.NET, we have a position available! Send me your resume and I’ll forward it along to the proper people. My email address is philha at (my company).com where (my company) is Microsoft. If you can’t figure out based on that where to email your resume, you probably shouldn’t bother applying Once again, this is…(read more)

Join My Team And Help Us Produce Higher Quality Products

Editor — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 08:59:47 +0000

The ASP.NET Team is still looking for that QA person out there who shares our passion for technology and improving the means by which software is made. Keep in mind that the QA position on our team is not someone who mindlessly follows a script hoping by sheer random luck to find bugs. Oh no no no my friends. This is considered a software development position in which you will be responsible for improving the processes and tools we have in place for ensuring quality software. You’d be involved in improving the quality of all phases of product development as a valued member of a feature crew. Think broadly about the idea of software quality. Your role is to question whether we’re building the right product as much as it is to test the product…(read more)