NZ Code Camp dates announced

This year Code Camp will take place on the Sunday after Tech-Ed – 28th August.

It will be held at the University of Auckland Business School. This should be a great (and free) event. I am co-leading the Developer track and hoping for some great speaker submissions.

First User Group Meeting

Thanks to everyone who came to the first meeting of the Auckland .NET UG last night.  It was great to meet everyone and there was lots of follow up chat afterwards.

Hopefully my session on BDD went down well.

We have decided to get members to send in their requests for topics and then run a poll to pick the most popular (and then source someone who will speak about it!)

Can’t wait for the next one!

ALM vNext features announced at Tech-Ed

Jason Zander has released details of some vNext ALM features at Tech-Ed USA.  The vision has three themes.

• Build on the momentum of VS 2010
• Accelerate Agile Adoption (my particular favourite )
• Link Development to Operations

There are a bunch of feature announcements that are mentioned, but some highlights for me are:-

• Agile Planning Tools – a new task board!
• Lightweight Requirements
• Continuous testing
• Exploratory Testing support

Check out the full post here.

Team Build–Unable to copy file bin\xx.dll to bin\xx.dll. Access is denied.

One of our teams hit this today with strange errors in the build logs.  The errors looked like this:-

$/Development/Source/Service.csproj ('Package' target(s)) - 23 error(s), 0 warning(s), View Log File

C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\Microsoft.Common.targets (3001): Unable to copy file "C:\Builds\2\Sources\Development\Source\Blah.dll". Access to the path 'bin\Blah.dll' is denied.

There were many of these in the build output.  Some head scratching and searching later turned up the answer.  Someone had checked in a bin folder to Source Control – this will make it read only etc etc. (You can guess the rest)

Posting here so that next time it gets me I have a reference, and also it will hopefully help someone else.

Starting a new User Group

I have put my hand up to start and run the new Auckland.NET user group.  Our first meeting is on May 24th.  Details can be found here.

I am planning to cover anything .NET, Scrum, ALM etc.  the broader the better.

This will be the first user group that I have run, so will be interesting to see how it goes.  I am hoping to persuade some overseas notables to drop in occasionally and bring some star power.

I will post again post the event and provide an update on how things went, maybe with some photos also.