Meeting PostMortem

Hi all,

We had a nice meeting last Thursday where Mike Chrisman proved he could write a C# program using Notepad++, and a NAnt script from memory while being heckled.  Proving one thing: he is braver then I.

He posted a blog on the topic as well.

While he was not able to convince everyone that the benefits of a one step build outweighed the work of creating the script, everyone seemed to agree that it would be a good idea to use with teams.  But heck, we haven't been able to get everyone in our group to agree on anything, so why start now.  :)

Next month

We talk about what to cover next month as well, and it looks like we will cover various web debugging tools.  Here are a list of tools that I will show off (these are just tools that I use)

• FireBug, which is one of the best html/css/javascript debuggers that I know (works only with FireFox). 
• YSlow
• IE Developer Toolbar, which tries to be FireBug for IE -- and almost gets there. 
• NotePad++: because NotePad isn't enough anymore
• Web Developer Toolbar: Not like FireBug, but interesting none the less.
• CSS Vista: a tool to compare css between IE and FireFox
• GreaseMonkey  -- this one is stretching it, so maybe.

My final tip for the day: in either FireFox or IE, did you know that Ctrl-R reloads the entire page?  I didn't until last week.