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Category Archives: Development
Bing Me
We are naturally biased towards the things we are most familiar with. Learning something involves an investment in it, and often times there is an emotional investment as well. We become attached emotionally to the things we’re constantly exposed to. … Continue reading
Simple BDD Reporting with NUnit
I do BDD with just plain NUnit. I haven’t yet invested the time to mess with any of the frameworks like MSpec or whatever. I use a ContextSpecification class that I probably ripped off from someone long ago. Everyone in … Continue reading
The Ugly Baby Project
I am announcing the Ugly Baby Project. It’s a simple thing I’ve decided to do to sort of compare and contrast Ruby on Rails, Django, and Ruby/Merb, and maybe ASP.NET MVC. I’m not sure about ASP.NET MVC. (I’m already familiar … Continue reading
My First Experience With Django
I decided to pop open a copy of Live Writer and chronicle my first Django first impressions. It’s going to be a bit stream of consciousness. I’m working off this tutorial from Instant Django. The model creation seems relatively straightforward … Continue reading
Running Multiple Hudson Instances Simultaneously
I wanted to run multiple Hudson instances side-by-side. It was easy enough to get them running kicked off via batch files, but I wanted them to run as services, because I’m lazy and greedy. Turns out it’s easy, though non-obvious. … Continue reading
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Manifesto for Software Craftsmanship
A sort of sequel to the Manifesto for Agile Software Development, I am proud to be a signee of the Manifesto for Software Craftsmanship: As aspiring Software Craftsmen we are raising the bar of professional software development by practicing it … Continue reading
Infinite List of Database Users with Yield Return
At the ALT.NET Seattle conference, I went to a session by Nate Kohari on the awesomeness of the yield return keyword in .NET and how you can use it for all kinds of fancy stuff. In the true spirit of … Continue reading
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Buba XPath Builder
This is the tool I reach for anytime I need to pull data out of XML’s cold bird-like claws. It let’s you interactively write XPath queries against an XML document. It’s simple. It works well. It’s got syntax highlighting. Basically, … Continue reading
ALT.NET Seattle 2009 – Why So Mean?
I am currently attending the ALT.NET Seattle Conference. The energy and passion is really invigorating. It makes me want to be productive. Scott Hanselman hosted a session named, “Why so mean?” that was really good. It asked the question “Are … Continue reading
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Windows Task Manager Keyboard Shortcut
Maybe everyone else already knows this, but I just found out and I’m so happy. CTRL-SHIFT-ESC brings up the Windows Task Manager. No more CTRL-ALT-DELETE click the button dance. Woo hoo!
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