How to resolve the certificate problem of CruiseControl.net?

Hi today I am going to share a small tips, its about CruiseControl.net, I am sure every one have a clear idea about CruiseControl.net it’s a dot net distribution of famous continuous instigation software. Lets get back to the original context.

Get from SVN manually once

While creating project configuration if you ever encounter certificate error, here is how you can resolve this, first of all you have to login with a user name and password with admin privilege, and download the source of your desired project manually, while downloading the code you would be prompt with the certificate acceptance, please select accept permanently. 

Set service credential

Great next step is to configure the service so that use “CruiseControl.NET Server” uses your logged in user’s credential. To do this open services from administrator tools, and located Cruise Control.NET Server and open the service, in Log on Tab click on Radio Button that says This account then add the user information and password. click Ok,

 

When you click on Apply it would just give you a warning message, just click ok to proceed. After that run the build configuration again, you would see that the source control task of build configuration will able to get the source this time.

Hope this helps, until next time me signing out. 

References

http://multitiered.wordpress.com/2010/07/23/configuring-cruisecontrol-net-svn-visual-studio-2008-and-msbuild/

Edit Older Posts Using Windows Live Writer

Let me share a quick tips with the community today, we all know what a Windows live writer is, at least who writes a lot in block these day. In the earlier years we didn’t have any good software for particularly blogs. Now we have, at least lots of plugin and third-party tools out there.

If you think that your earlier post are not that much impressive in case of code and design of the content, you might want to edit those using windows live writer, there the few simple steps from where you can edit older posts posted via different editor on any blog.

 

Open windows live writer and then click on Open recent posts, you would be presented with a window like this.

You can see that there are three action items on the left, Drafts, Recently Posted and Your Added Blog. Click on your added blog and select show All from top dropdown option, now you can double click on any items you want to edit and style the code’s and image with new tool and functionalities.

I am sharing this because I searched for it in google and I found out no good result except some plugin, when there is a easier option for this as built-in functionality in windows live writer. And good thing is that its totally free!. so not commercial version like blog jet.

Until next time keep sharing.

BCL : PDF converter and sdk for easy use.

Hi recently we developed a Silverlight component for one of our client and used some very interesting technologies. I thought those are worth sharing. If you are thinking about converting your PDF document to word or some other format I would suggest you use BCL component. You can download the sdk as well as the trial software from http://www.pdfonline.com/.

There could be lots of technologies for converting documents from one format to another but sad thing is noting is free. You have to pay to use this component so some financial bottleneck is involved. I would very much like to see some free component in future. In those cases open source software's would have had those rich conversion facilities.

Until we find free products for conversion, this is a good choice.

Balsamiq: Another mockup building tool for all kind of purpose.

Today I am going to share yet another mockup building tool with you guys. Before going in to more discussion, can you recall any good mockup tool free, i.e. either freeware or shareware three year back. We used Microsoft Visio for a long time. Until our designers made up there mind to do all sort of mockup using Photoshop. Again considering the price of the tool Photoshop was a good choice as it serve multiple purpose for the designers.

The tool or component that I want to share with you guys is Balsamiq. It is yet another mockup building tool and I must say a very good one. I have already talking about mockupbuilder.com where a silverlight component do all the thing for mockup. Here we can say that it’s a competitor for the mocupbuilder.com, Balsamiq is designed and developed via flex(Perhaps) and has runtime framework as adobe Air.

Its free if you use this by lunching from there site, and you can also buy the commercial version with $79 for a single license. Till now our designers are using this free version and They are pretty happy about it.

On thing I must mention here that not only designers are comfortable with it, stake holders like developers and product owners even customers understand the simple sketch like drawing. As our project manager said

“Even though the name sounds funny but the tool is awesome and we are liking it”

Until next time me signing our.

Trello an excellent example of awesome scrum/Kanban digital board

 

Today I want to share a really interesting tool with the community. Its simple, its easy, its really user friendly its Trello. From the makers of FogBugz yet another awesome tool to ease the developers life. It’s a free tool, at least till now you can create and manage multiple boards. Typically a organization have multiple ongoing projects, and this tool also support multiple boards.

We can create as many columns depending on our needs. For instance. Back lock, Hotbox , In Development, Pre-QA, Under –QA, Finished, etc. We are trying to use this for our small projects till now, but it has huge potential to manage big size projects. I am looking forward to get some velocity calculation and advanced reporting features in future.

Till Next time. Its me signing out.

Mockup builder : Yet another awesome mockup building tool for your software.

In one of my last post I have discussed about an interesting web based tool to design and manage project the creately project to be precise. In this post I want to share another tool, I really find this tool useful, there is a whole lot of tools and controls set to build any kind of mockup. And I found this a perfect replacement of visio. but I must mention one point here before the continuation of the post, its Free!, its still in beta state though, hope this will be free in the release version also.

This tool is written entirely in Silverlight, and must say this is an state of art example what Silverlight can do, this project has also has out of browser experience so you can also install this in your local machine for offline browsing. you guys can checkout this tool from http://mockupbuilder.com/.

Some very interesting feature is that you can create project and design multi-screen mockups. I hope this tool will be free for use as long as it remains.

Use Creately to manage your software artifacts

This is a interesting tool, a full web based UML, and other diagrams designer tool, just like mockupbuilder. you can checkout this tool at http://creately.com/.

You would be surprised to see the client list of this tool. And some surprising integration with your existing collaboration tool.

But for uses we have a simple problem, that’s money proportional to extendibility. This tool has some basic free service but for advanced services you have to use the commercial stuff. Why we don’t have free stuff? its because the world will not give us the basic needs for free so some one have to do business to make money.

Did I mention that you can build your software mockup as well, in this tool apart from doing awesome collaboration. And not to mention it has a desktop version as well, incase you want to replace MS Visio with Creately.

“I dream of a all free software world.”

Use Iron Speed Designer to build data driven web application in a minute

It’s been in the market for a while and lots of people and organization have taken advantage of this awesome tool , the magic is it can build a professional looking web application in a flash. And the developer need to prior programming experience what so ever, well the person need programming experience if you need customization but it’s the advanced scenario.

Here is what that said about the tool

“Simply point to an existing database and let Iron Speed Designer create a visually stunning, feature-rich Web 2.0 application that is easy to customize and ready to deploy. In just minutes you’ll get a complete .NET Web application without programming. Applications are a snap to customize using our simple layout editor, wizards and toolbox. No knowledge of HTML or .NET is required”

of Couse it’s not a free tool and you have some financial bottleneck with it, You can download trail and explore this awesome tool if you like from http://www.ironspeed.com. Here is what they claim.

If you start building the application using Iron Speed Designer, the tool also shows how much developer is been saved and how much money is been saved, not everyone wants to know about it but it’s a smart marketing policy.