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Still Pearling: December 2010
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Eating sand, writing code. Friday, December 3, 2010. I've been intending to do this one for a while now. Build automation. Personally I try to automate wherever I can. I'm not at the level of CruiseControl(.Net). Because frankly the shops where I've worked to date have only a fledgling Agile practice. So this first post is to promote and for future reference record the sheer usefulness of PowerShell for getting your wares to where they need to be. Recently I've been refactoring a special application ...
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Still Pearling: Automation
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Eating sand, writing code. Friday, December 3, 2010. I've been intending to do this one for a while now. Build automation. Personally I try to automate wherever I can. I'm not at the level of CruiseControl(.Net). Because frankly the shops where I've worked to date have only a fledgling Agile practice. So this first post is to promote and for future reference record the sheer usefulness of PowerShell for getting your wares to where they need to be. Recently I've been refactoring a special application ...
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Still Pearling: Dependency Injection using Munq
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Eating sand, writing code. Thursday, July 29, 2010. Dependency Injection using Munq. I'm in the middle of a building a WCF Rest(ful) web service and I want to use some form of DI. I've used Daniel Cazzulino's Funq. For a WCF or MVC project there are some constraints that would make Funq a bit more interesting to set up. Fortunately there is a derivative of Funq, Matthew Dennis's Munq. Project (example usage for ASP.NET MVC is available on CodeProject. That is intended for this purpose. I think) for imple...
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Still Pearling: November 2008
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Eating sand, writing code. Wednesday, November 5, 2008. Prototyping AJAX with Jaxer and jQuery. So where did October go? Amazon kindly delivered a bunch. So far I'm part way through. Books and good reading. As a developer it can be difficult to find books pitched at the right level and at least with these two books Manning got pretty close to the sweet spot. Fortunately the biggest impact on my tech time apart from family is the three months work I've begun for a local SaaS outfit, TenderLink.com. Attrib...
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Still Pearling: July 2008
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Eating sand, writing code. Saturday, July 26, 2008. Quality, Security, and Risk. Once an agreed list of risks has been composed, the next step is to assign values representing the impact and likelihood of each risk on a scale from 1 to 5:. Another table then provides a value for the gross risk assessment (see previous table for Gross Risk legend):. The spreadsheet has a single row for each identified risk, and within that row there are columns for a. Of the risk, the. Tuesday, July 22, 2008. I can apprec...
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Still Pearling: August 2010
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Eating sand, writing code. Sunday, August 29, 2010. Over at World of VS. There's a scaled out online poll taking place about what extensions would be useful additions to Visual Studio. There are a couple I really. And I've voted accordingly. My own suggestion. Is something I personally would find extremely useful and that is being able to manipulate MSBuild files in Visual Studio with full intellisense, including community. Sunday, August 15, 2010. Custom Authentication in WCF. I set up in an earlier post.
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Still Pearling: June 2010
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Eating sand, writing code. Wednesday, June 23, 2010. Been at the coalface. Wow, it's been more than a year, time flies like the wind ( fruit flies like bananas. Working is good and over the past year I've been hands on with Windows Mobile 6, developing a mobile application for Powerco. I like LINQ, DTO's. PowerShell ISE, Visual Studio 2010, and Scrum. Not so much. MSBuild. Including the MSBuild Community Tasks. And the MSBuild Extension Pack. I've also been doing some work for base 2. Been at the coalface.
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Still Pearling: August 2008
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Eating sand, writing code. Wednesday, August 27, 2008. At the same time I had ordered a couple of gigs of RAM (to better run Vista under Parallels. And a 7200RPM 320GB drive. For my MacBook Pro from Other World Computing. Plus a copy of Leopard. Ultimately it's all good and I'm enjoying the feeling of a lot of free space, much better performance, and a clean install. And with the restoration of our broadband connection I've been able to read an excellent article on scalability. Tuesday, August 5, 2008.
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Still Pearling: September 2008
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Eating sand, writing code. Wednesday, September 17, 2008. Flex and .Net. I'm currently investing time in learning how to connect a Flex RIA to a .Net server. Having worked for many years on web. Extension. And did I mention that I also dislike Adobe Reader? How can Adobe turn something so simple into an unwieldy bohemiath. Using Mark's tutorial turned out to be a reasonable place to start. There is a commercial Flash Remoting. Product but Mark's company. C: inetpub wwwroot weborb30 WEB-INF flex. The need...
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Still Pearling: Pain Points
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Eating sand, writing code. Wednesday, November 17, 2010. Joe has a compiled a list of pain points that developers have suggested typically give concern when trying to stay on top of all the new and exciting stuff that pours out of Redmond and other forges. I don't normally follow Joe's blog and I got there I think from Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew. 1) Choosing between Web Forms, MVC, WebMatrix or something else entirely. 2) Choose Windows Forms, WPF, Silverlight or something else for desktop development.
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