Rick Tonoli

Month: December 2009

  • Performance appraisals, do we really care?

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    I often wonder why companies think the current way of doing Performance Appraisals are actually effective (you know, a few times a year, you sit with your manager and he tells you what a good/bad boy you were). For me they’re unnecessary and this is why: Firstly, “appraising” someones “performance” is something that should have…

  • Continuous Integration with Hudson and .NET

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    Recently I was tasked with setting up a development environment for a .NET shop. I’m a great fan(atic) of Continuous Integration (CI) and set about thinking of a good way of doing this (and a fun/cool way as well). For those of you new to Continuous Integration, I think Martin Fowler describes it best on…