Category Archives: nant

Web Deployment Primer

Aug 27

A good deployment strategy is central to the care and feeding of any web application. There are a variety of different types of deployment strategies that are available, and many applications that can be used to automate web applications deployments.
This primer is broken up into major sections below.
Moving Files
If you are like me your web [...]

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Killer NAnt Scripting Template

Aug 12

I created a NAnt template for developing NAnt scripts. This template includes global variables, comments, different targets based on the deployment, job, action structure that I have talked about previously.
I have provided the entire text file listed below, and also a zip file with the template in a NAnt .build file for download.

DownloadTemplate
Template code:<project [...]

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Killer NAnt Scripting Quick Tip: <Call> vs. Depends

Jul 26

Don’t use the depends script for everything it is bad form. This is mistake I was doing when I first learned NAnt. Depends has it place, but most times you should use <call> instead of declaring it depends in the target tag. depends should be reserved for use when something has to happen [...]

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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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