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Tweet Snippet

Mon, 16 May 2011 04:36:02 GMT

Easy code snippet tweeting.

Do You Really Want to Be a Development Team Leader?

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 15:31:02 GMT

Ask any up and coming developer what they would like to do in the next year or so and you'll invariably hear, "I'd like to become a Development Team Leader". Hopefully most will have actually considered the change of role and be looking for new challenges and ways to contribute more to their chosen profession. However, for some this is an automatic response to a question that is particularly difficult to answer in an industry with no clear career path. For others it's simply a way to move up the pay scale.

Pluck Me!

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 02:21:21 GMT

Fun with Generics and Arrays and Delegates

"Unit tests take too much time".... WTF

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:16:10 GMT

Good little post that pretty well describes most of the people I work with, and their mantra goes something like this: "We don't have time for unit tests right now, we have to get this project done ASAP!! We can always refactor and clean up the code later"

Brute Force? I Guess I'll Just Use SubSonic Then...

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:31:03 GMT

Hand written sql versus SubSonic? SubSonic wins hands down...

Test Driven Development...Do You?

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:38:25 GMT

Little bit of reality programming on how NOT to write unit tests.

CopyTo<T>(T Target)

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:01:01 GMT

Technique for copying all commonly named properties from an instance of one type to an instance of some unrelated type.

Pattern Focus: Mediator Pattern

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:31:01 GMT

The mediator pattern explained as a story with two prior attempts of solving a problem which emerged into the third, using the mediator pattern. Example in C#.

Try..Catch ...Now What

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:16:02 GMT

Story from the trenches of how NOT to use try..catch blocks.

My new little friend, Enum<T>

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:16:01 GMT

Some description of a help class for working with Enumerations.

.NET web apps (and ProMesh.NET) on Linux (Mono)... "It just works"

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:31:03 GMT

I was a little curious about how ProMesh.NET (MVC Web Framework for .NET 2.0) would run on Mono (if at all)

Essential MonoRail

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 23:01:03 GMT

Describes the bare minimum, essential code only, to get Caslte's MonoRail to render content. Visual Studio not needed.

Dependency Injection from the Trenches

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:16:02 GMT

Example of how to incorporate dependency injection to make code that depends on external resources testable.

Castle ActiveRecord "Hello World"

Fri, 20 Jul 2007 21:57:13 GMT

...the simplest "Hello World" program for using Castle ActiveRecord...

TIP: Try right clicking on the filetabs in VS 2005

Mon, 31 Jul 2006 06:31:01 GMT

This is a nice little tip and one that I use all the time.

C#'s new ?? operator

Wed, 12 Jul 2006 17:51:01 GMT

From the post "I hadn't seen this in any of the C# 2.0 feature lists, but Fritz Onion brings this little gem to light for me. There's a new operator: ?? It's a lot like the old inline if statement."

Introducing Regulazy: Point & Click Regular Expressions

Mon, 10 Jul 2006 10:51:01 GMT

Roy Osherove has released a new Regular Expression (alpha) tool: "Regulazy is an attempt to build a small "Expert System" for creating .NET Regular Expressions. It lets the user create an expression based on a real life example of text they would like to parse. As the user interacts with Regulazy using the mouse, Regulazy offers the user possible expressions that would fit the currently selected text. As the user selects "rules" to apply on various parts of the text, a regular expression is built automatically in the lower application pane. The end result is a visual expression builder, that for most simple parsing operations, requires the user only to know what they would like to parse, and what the parsing rules should be - Regex Syntax is *not* needed."