Category Archives: agile

Killer Nant Scripting Part 4

Jul 09

Targets Level 3: Actions
I finally have floated back to earth after my head trip about simplicity.
Actions are the meat of my Nant scripting methodology. This is the section where I break down the tasks into their atomic parts. This is where we will be telling nant what to do.
One of the standard tasks [...]

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Killer Nant Scripting Part 3

Jun 13

Targets Level 2: Jobs
Jobs are general steps in a deployment process. They can generally be described in one or two words. They will consist of only a couple steps or actions. Examples of job would be: backup, archive, copy application, build, etc.
Jobs may be set up to be generalized, so they can [...]

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Killer Nant Scripting Part 2

May 13

Targets Level 1: Deployment
The basic structure will move from a top level deployment task to more granular tasks or actions that make up a deployment process. Creating the high level deployment process we can abstract the general task processes. The goal of using a abstracted setup is to create readable and manageable processes.
The [...]

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About Ian Lintner


I am a software developer, mostly web,  in Des Moines, Iowa. I take a very opinionated stand concerning development, you will never regret a simple design or architecture. My education was at Drake University in Biology and Computer Science. Offline I am recently married to my wife Heather. I try my hand at many hobbies currently I am gardening till the snow comes in.



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