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MCTS Study Made a hell of a lot quicker with FastSharp

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:57:04 GMT

Using fast sharp to study for your MCTS can save you a lot of time at the start.

Cleaning up after source safe

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:16:17 GMT

Visual source safe makes life a pain in the backside sometimes... This is a quick guide on how to manually decouple a Visual studio project from source safe.

Why Every Good Developer needs to Know how to Mock

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 05:31:02 GMT

While unit testing is generally considered a good practice ( even among those who don't do unit tests), mocking doesn't seem to carry the same aura. There are a lot of arguments saying why mocking is bad , how it kills testability etc. But in my day-to-day job, as well as in my personal projects, I found mocking is definitely indispensable.

Codebehind Files in ASP.NET MVC Are Evil

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:46:05 GMT

Having Codebehind files for Views in ASP.NET MVC tempts developers to use web forms style programming in MVC applications. Removing them from the default application templates and new File->ASP.NET MVC View templates will help developers fall into a "pit of success" by eliminating the temptation to put code into codebehind files that should really go into Controllers.

Stubborn Services II

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:24:50 GMT

How to debug the dreaded: "The service started and then stopped. Some services stop automatically if they have no work to do..."

Watch your step on the XPath

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:27:59 GMT

An article on the dangers of not kowing what you are doing when processing XML

Overriding ToString() Makes Debugging Easier

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 01:46:02 GMT

Make your life easier while debugging in Visual Studio, see your objects in thier full glory using ToString.

I CAN HAS A .NET COMPILR?

Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:31:01 GMT

A programming language with compilers for many platforms including .NET, based on the captions featured in the popular LOLCat images found in the Internet.

Twitter Publisher for CruiseControl.NET

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 09:16:01 GMT

CC.NET task to send the results of a build to twitter

Break into debugging via code

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:46:01 GMT

Breakpoints are for pussies.