This is the first in what I expect to be quite a long series of blog posts, meandering over a fairly wide range of topics as they crop up. There’s nothing particularly technical in this introductory post. It’s really just a starting point. V-Drums In July 2019, inspired/encouraged by a friend name Alice, I bought … Continue reading V-Drum Explorer: Introduction →

This post revisits the problem described in Versioning Limitations in .NET, based on reactions to that post and a Twitter discussion which occurred later. Before getting onto the main topic of the post, I wanted to comment a little on that Twitter discussion. I personally found it frustrating at times, and let that frustration leak … Continue reading Options for .NET’s versioning issues →

(I’m writing this post primarily so I can link to it in an internal document on Monday. There’s nothing sensitive or confidential here, so I might as well get it down in a blog post.) SemVer is pretty clear about pre-releases. Any version with a major version of 0 is considered “initial development”, and anything … Continue reading Why I don’t start versions at 0.x any more →

TL;DR: If your AppVeyor build starts breaking because it’s started using WSL bash, change the path in your YAML file – see the end of the post for an example. For years now, I’ve used bash scripts for all kinds of automation in Windows projects. The version of bash I use is the one that … Continue reading Using “git bash” from AppVeyor →

This is a blog post I’ve intended to write for a very long time. (Other blog posts in that category include a recipe for tiramisu ice cream, and “knights and allies”.) It’s one of those things that’s grown in my mind over time, becoming harder and harder to start. However, there have been three recent … Continue reading Versioning limitations in .NET →