Continuous Integration

I decided to implement a Continuous Integration project. I downloaded a copy of CI Factory and went looking for a free subversion server.
Berlios.de has a good plan so I signed up and started to configure my environment. I also downloaded TortiseSVN with the hope of integrating Windows Explorer with Subversion.

Here is where the trouble began...

BerliOS uses ssh so I decided to use Putty for this. I went into TortiseSVN settings and pointed it at Putty.exe. This resulted in "Invalid Port Number" errors popping up one after the other in a stream of modal windows. Fortunately, I resolved that error by just removing the TortiseSVN ssh client setting and leaving it blank.

Now I get the username and password login, but it finds no repository. I'm going to track down that error as well - dammit!

RESTful development

Last week, I attended Jim O'Neils talk at the MSDN roadshow on RESTful programming. (Chris Bowen's Blog : Announcing the Fall 2008 Northeast Roadshow!: "A RESTed Development")

It was a great talk about the origins and meaning of REST and the usefulness of REST techniques.

Jim posted his presentation here (http://blogs.msdn.com/jimoneil/) and I just found a tool for helping to create RESTful web pages in your web application here (http://www.urlrewriting.net/149/en/home.html)

This looks like a pretty cool tool. I will fool around with it a little and see if it is a good as it seems!

SQL Server 2000 - No wizards available in Enterprise Manager -> Tools

If your wizards select screen looks like this in SQL Server 2000, you have probably selected the SQL Server Group rather than a SQL Server or a specific database. The normal screen will appear if you select a database or a server.

SQL Server 2005 Menu items don't show up...

If you install SQL Server 2005 after installing Visual Studio 2005 or 2008 (with SQL Server Express), you may have a successful installation which leaves "Microsoft SQL Server 2005 -> Configuration Tools" as the only menu option.

At the time of this writing, I could find only one article on the net which offered a suggestion, here:
http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-6141894.html

You can see from the article that it requires you to remove all SQL Server 2005 pieces...

This is not necessary. All that is truly needed is to navigate to the setup.exe on the installation media and run the following at the command line:

setup.exe SKUUPGRADE=1

This saved me some time, and hopefully it will help someone else out there!