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Blog Clipping #1

Well, I've been hard at work decorating my house for Halloween and spending a little less time on the Virtual Cellar project. But, enough new things have come by that I thought I should post them here.

New NUnit Iteration (2.2.1)

Via Roy Osherove, a new version of NUnit (2.2.1) has been released. I couldn't find it on the nunit site, but sourceforge has a copy of it. Here's a quick summary of the changes in this iteration

• Better VS2005 support. Code that fires events has been modified to ensure that controls are invoked on the correct thread. We believe this will solve many of the problems that occur when running tests under the VS 2005 debugger. NUnit can now open Visual Studio 2005 projects and solutions.
• An experimental extensibility mechanism is now provided, which allows users to create special types of test cases and suites, marked by their own attributes.
• Source code for NUnit reorganized into separate components. Both the gui and console runners are now dlls for those who want to link them with their own programs.
• Old style test cases ("Test....") are no longer recognized by default
• Added a protected constructor to Assert so those wanting to inherit from it may do so
• Numerous bug fixes

Read here for the full change log.

New Version of CruiseControl.Net

• Some Source Control plugins can now automatically update your source tree for you (so no need for bootstrap builds)
• New 'triggers' system replaces old schedule
• Introduction of 'Working Directory' and 'Artifact' concepts (these are not fully utilised yet)
• More support for relative paths
• Preliminary support for cross-server project reporting.

Read more here.

Omondo Releases UML for Eclipse

I know this is a dotnetjunkies site, but I have to make a plug for a great UML tool for Eclipse and Java development, you can download the free version here. It now supports Eclipse v3.0.1. A Linux Journal review is here. Eclipse & Omondo make a great environment for Java development, including tight integration with Ant.

Virtual Cellar

I've laid most of the foundation now for the Virtual Cellar, I'm now beginning to flesh out the classes in the domain model. The two main classes are the Producer class, and the Wine class. Most of the work as of late is on the Wine class and gathering data for the different Varietals of grape. I'll post a little about that later today.