Ian Griffiths posted a great example of how powerful and cool LINQ is when used in everyday code (it’s not all about databases people). If you haven’t started to learn how to incorporate this awesome toolset into your daily coding life, you’re killing yourself. No excuses.
Archive for July, 2008
I’ve been a faithful unit tester for a few years now. I may not do everything by the book (I think end-to-end unit tests are helpful), but I do get good coverage most of the time. That said, I’ve found myself unable to use any of the Mock frameworks out there, because I don’t use [...]
My team uses ooVoo for video conferencing our Daily Scrum. It’s been great and very reliable. My only complaint is a lack of whiteboard or desktop sharing, but we’ve overcome these obstacles with other tools (see SharedView). Over the months, I’ve come to acquire an expectation of what the experience should be like and, from [...]
I do a lot of demos and Virtual PC 2007 is a mainstay in my arsenal for those demos. I’ve used VMWare Server (the free one) and it is very nice, but I run an x64 OS and VMWare had neglected to sign certain emulation drives which caused me enough headache that I ditched it [...]
If you are running a VPC instance and you’d like to take a screenshot of something on the VPC, did you know you can do that without any photo editing hassle? Simply make sure you aren’t “in” the VPC (hit the right Alt key if you are). Now click and drag a square around the [...]
Why WPF? This is why…
Jul 2
http://dnrtv.com/default.aspx?showID=115 Just awesome! I didn’t see anything far fetched other than they must have a great designer on staff. I wonder if the designer was doing the Blend work?
I don’t often have the need to implement the Visitor Pattern, but today I was that day. I looked around really quick for an example of how to do this with Lambda Expressions and Anonymous Methods, which seemed like they were the way to go. It may be that my search skills have deteriorated right [...]
For those of you who use NHibernate you may find this convenient, if you don’t already have your own. Below is a C# code snippet for creating a public virtual property (code and file are both there). Just put it in your <Visual Studio 2005/2008>\Code Snippets\Visual C#\My Code Snippets folder and you’re off and running. [...]
Backup Your Site
Jul 1
So last night I was restructuring my hosting infrastructure (read: moving folders around) and managed to delete the folder that hosts most of my sites. I got that nasty sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach. I was able to get things back up, but my hosting provider, which is normally pretty responsive and [...]
Jing
Jul 1
http://jing.cromwellhaus.com/2008-07-01_1427.swf