Rob Reynolds

Chocolatey is software management automation for Windows. Choco is the CLI for Chocolatey Chocolatey works with 20+ native install types, but it can manage things you would normally xcopy deploy. You can work w/registry settings, managing files & configurations, or any combination. Since it ... [More] uses PowerShell, if you can dream it, you can do it w/Chocolatey. Builds on familiar technologies: * PowerShell * Unattended installs We didn't try to reinvent the wheel. We are building on technologies you know, technologies you may have been using for years. With those familiar technologies Chocolatey brings the concepts of package management to allow you to version things, manage dependencies and installation order, better inventory management, and other features. [Less]

RoundhousE is an automated database deployment (change management) system that allows you to use your current idioms and gain much more. Currently it only supports Microsoft SQL Server, but there are future plans for other databases. It seeks to solve both maintenance concerns and ease of ... [More] deployment. We follow some of the same idioms as other database management systems (SQL scripts), but we are different in that we think about future maintenance concerns. We want to always apply certain scripts (anything stateless like functions, views, stored procedures, and permissions), so we don’t have to throw everything into our change scripts. This seeks to solves future source control concerns. How sweet is it when you can version the database according to your current source control version? [Less]

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