Holiday Plans

Yes, It’s That Time Again!

Once again we are coming up to our annual trip to China to see the in-laws. This means I will be disconnected for the next three weeks, but I will have plenty of time on my hands. Last year I worked on a replacement for CCTray (Project Leo) which later became FastForward.NET. This year my plans are just as grand

Currently I am working on converting CruiseControl.NET to use streams instead of strings. Given that this is a big task, with lots of complexity, it’s been slow going. I’m aiming to finish this in my time away – plus look into some other possibilities for the concepts (like distributed builds).

Second, I’m looking at building a Silverlight front-end for CruiseControl.NET. I’ve been playing around with Silverlight at work, so this opens a few possibilities. This will be a standard plug-in for the dashboard, so people can choose to use it or not if they desire. The only downside is it will require .NET 3.5 and Silverlight 3 – so I’m not sure how well this will work on *nix environments.

So, you won’t hear much from me for a wee while, but I hope to have some exciting stuff soon!! Plus my Cantonese should be better by the time I return