Julián Hidalgo October 17th, 2008
Today Jeff Brown announced the release of Gallio and MbUnit v3.04. Many thanks and congratulations to him and all the people that contributed to this release: Vadim Kreynin, Yann Trévin, Graham Hay, and Francois Retief.
I was really impressed by the amount and quality of the new features. Some of the most noteworthy ones in my opinion are the AssertEx.That syntax, the Gallio.Ambience object store, and the highlighting of differences in assertions.
I’ve been away from Gallio and MbUnit the last couple of months for a number of personal reasons, but I’m quite glad to see that we’ve got new people contributing with their time and skills, and once more I’m amazed by Jeff’s energy to keep working so hard on all this stuff.
Oh, and before I forget it, the Gallio Book is now online. I wrote the getting started chapter (right now the code listings don’t look good, but I hope we can fix that soon) and helped a little more, but it was Jeff who got the publishing done at the end. There’s not too much content so far, so people are really welcome to contribute.
Download Gallio/MbUnit 3.04!
Julián Hidalgo May 27th, 2008
The output is now valid XHTML markup. I also improved the design and added a little more content. Actually I borrowed most of the design elements from the Django Book, which we are using as an example and source of inspiration.
I wrote a “Why This Book?” section, and to my surprise it was a lot harder than the technical content. I’m still not glad with it, but for now I’ll focus on the things that people really read and care about :)
Julián Hidalgo May 25th, 2008
Tonight I finally got the HTML publishing for the Gallio book working with (basic for now) syntax highlighting and using the same layout of the web site. Here’s a screenshot:
I hope to put it on the web site during this week and to start working on other kind of output formats too. It’s quite satisfying to see this project becoming a reality :)
In my previous post I said I was going to transform the source XML files using .NET, but it was getting too time consuming, so at the end I used the Java flavor of the Saxon XSLT processor. As usual, it was harder than I thought at first because of all the little details that must be taken care of, so I will blog about the process soon.
