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date: 2012-03-20 20:00

title: "Working Bee"

author: "@aeoth, @shiftkey and @tobin"

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With all the work that the Code52 team and its band of merry contributors have achieved over the previous weeks, we're now at the point where we'd like to slow down a bit and take stock of what we've achieved so far.

We're aware of the initial premise we made about "a new coding project every week" and how a pause goes against it, but we don't want to march onwards to the detriment of the previous good work we've acheived.

While @tobin and @aeoth were working to get the Enhance project started, there has been a supreme effort during the week to address some outstanding work:

- **[Pretzel](http://code52.org/pretzel/)** added support for using Razor templates alongside Liquid templates, and has a [Chocolately package](http://chocolatey.org/packages/pretzel) available for people to install on their local machines.

- **[Ideastrike](http://code52.org/ideastrike/)** has been updated to use Nancy v0.10 - with that transition completed we are looking to enhance and expand on what we initially released.

- **ASP.NET Internationalization** packages were shipped on NuGet during the week. Check out the [project site](http://code52.org/aspnet-internationalization) for links and documentation.

We plan on taking a break from the insanity that is a new project each week to polish previous projects. We would much rather 40 *maintained* and *complete* projects than 52 incomplete projects that never reach their full potential.

Many of our applications require installers to make the end-user experience super-easy to enjoy. We've researched numerous tools but could not settle on a particular choice which would cover everything we needed from an install solution - so we're cherry-picking from various sources and building something [here](https://github.com/xpaulbettsx/NSync) which we hope will be a best-of-breed solution for deploying and updating applications.

In the meantime, the awesome team at [wyDay](http://wyday.com/) have provided a license for Code52 to use their [wyBuild](http://wyday.com/wybuild/) tool as an update mechanism for our .NET apps.

**Markpad** will be the first application from Code52 to use wyBuild, but we will have more to discuss on this in the coming days.

Another "fun with installers" case we need to address is how Office requires a signed installer for addins from the web. We are looking to address this over the current week so we can get an official build of **GitHub for Office** out for users to test.

Each of the Code52 projects has a [gh-pages](http://pages.github.com/) branch - to introduce users - and a wiki - to capture documentation and details.