Gareth Lennox

Yearly Archives: 2013

Thoughts from ScaleConf

6 May 2013 programming, scaling

I went to ScaleConf a couple of weeks ago, and have been meaning to write about some thoughts I had, so here it is! The conference is, as per its name, primarily about scaling, and to be more specific, scaling software, and to be even more specific, a lot of the talks were about scaling […]

Simple version numbers with git

28 January 2013 .net, c#, git, versioning

Each .net project has a version number (4 dotted numbers, e.g. 1.0.0.0). While you could leave it like that, it would ideally point back a unique revision in your source control system. Unfortunately, they need to be a number, so you cannot dump the git hash in there and be done. There are some projects […]