I created a Twitter account specifically for Cysemic-related updates, @cysemic. I will still retweet the updates to it over on @crallen. Hopefully soon I will find a good way to make the Cysemic stream automated.

In other news, I am in the process of moving code samples over to Github, and embedding them here. It is a lot quicker and easier to do it this way than to use the Syntax Highlighter. Nothing against the highlighter, it’s just not the tool I need.

Recently I’ve spent some time at work getting our build environment automated and setting up continuous integration using JetBrains TeamCity, which I would recommend to anyone doing the same. We use the TeamCity build number as our revision number, and since our build numbers depend on dates, we needed a good way to reset the revision number nightly.

Turns out this was super simple to do. The following Ruby script takes care of resetting the build number. On Windows, I found the build numbers for projects under %USERPROFILE%\.BuildServer\config\.

To get it to run nightly, I simply set up a scheduled task using Windows’s built in Task Scheduler application. The task runs the following batch file: