What Can a Hybrid Car Teach Us About Continuous Improvement?(jeremyjarrell.com)

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Some hybrids train us to drive better in order to improve our gas mileage. What if we could apply this same type of feedback to software development? read more...

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The Monostate Pattern(jeremyjarrell.com)

submitted by jeremyjarrell(2685) 3 years, 9 months ago

A brief discussion of how to implement the Monostate pattern, and what advantages it gives us over the Singleton pattern. read more...

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Ignoring Third Party Exceptions(jeremyjarrell.com)

submitted by jeremyjarrell(2685) 3 years, 10 months ago

Here's an easy way to tell the debugger to ignore exceptions that occur outside of the code you're interested in. read more...

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Using aliases for better code readability(jeremyjarrell.com)

submitted by jeremyjarrell(2685) 3 years, 10 months ago

Here's a quick way to reduce overall code bloat while making your code even more readable. read more...

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Providing Multiple Views to the Same Collection(jeremyjarrell.com)

submitted by jeremyjarrell(2685) 3 years, 11 months ago

Using the iterator pattern, you can add you own syntactic sugar to make retrieving objects from a collection easier. read more...

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Stretching Out...(jeremyjarrell.com)

submitted by jeremyjarrell(2685) 4 years ago

Thoughts on the benefits of expanding your skills by learning a new every year. read more...

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The Bottom of the Cup(jeremyjarrell.com)

submitted by jeremyjarrell(2685) 4 years, 1 month ago

A challenge to reach outside of our own community and to embrace the ideas from elsewhere in the software development world. read more...

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Playing Jazz with Test-Driven Development(jeremyjarrell.com)

submitted by jeremyjarrell(2685) 4 years, 2 months ago

Test Driven Development is NOT about just making it up as you go along. Here's why... read more...

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Custom Debugger Visualizers(jeremyjarrell.com)

submitted by jeremyjarrell(2685) 4 years, 2 months ago

Custom debugger visualizers are a little known feature of Visual Studio which allow you to write your own visualization for any datatype which you can imagine. Here is the DLL and accompanying source code for a visualizer for both images and the whitespace of strings. read more...

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Free MbUnit and NUnit Test Templates for ReSharper(jeremyjarrell.com)

submitted by jeremyjarrell(2685) 4 years, 3 months ago

Here's two free MbUnit and NUnit TestFixture file templates for ReSharper that will automatically create an empty skeleton test file for you. read more...

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Refactoring: Replacing Enums with the Strategy Pattern(jeremyjarrell.com)

submitted by jeremyjarrell(2685) 4 years, 3 months ago

Here's a simple way to remove all of those ugly switch statements and enums and to buy yourself a little more flexibility and testability as an added bonus! read more...

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Embedding the Binsor Config File Directly in Your Assembly(jeremyjarrell.com)

submitted by jeremyjarrell(2685) 4 years, 3 months ago

Here's how to embed the Boo config file directly into your assembly when using Binsor to get a super clean deployment! read more...

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You got Boo in my Windsor!!!(jeremyjarrell.com)

submitted by jeremyjarrell(2685) 4 years, 4 months ago

Binsor combines the simple elegance of the Boo programming language with the power of the Windsor IoC framework. This post shows you how to get up and running with this technology in a matter minutes so that you can throw away those Windsor .config files forever! read more...

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Poor Man's Dependency Injection using Generics(jeremyjarrell.com)

submitted by jeremyjarrell(2685) 4 years, 4 months ago

Here's a quick way to incorporate dependency injection into your code using generics. This technique can be invaluable for testing. read more...

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Easily Test Custom Controls Inside of Visual Studio(jeremyjarrell.com)

submitted by jeremyjarrell(2685) 4 years, 5 months ago

Here's a quick way easily test and debug your custom WinForms controls right inside of Visual Studio without having to launch your entire application. read more...

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Overriding ToString for Easier Debugging(jeremyjarrell.com)

submitted by jeremyjarrell(2685) 4 years, 5 months ago

Did you know that you can override the ToString() method to make the debugger show you more information about your objects in the watch window. It's quick, it's easy, and it really works! read more...

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