Wellington – Lunch with geeks (24/7/2007)
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Posted July 24th, 2007 at 5:19 am
I didn't put the minutes up from last week because we had too many people there and we didn't get a real group conversation going.. It was mostly little separated groups so I don't really know what has been talked about. I also have a deadline for a client rapidly approaching so I didn't really find the time to add this to my blog. But I would like to thank everybody that was there last week for attending. Anyway today we had another Geek lunch and the topic of discussion was: What will you do...
Woohoo IronRuby alpha1
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Posted July 23rd, 2007 at 10:26 pm
Well I'm pretty excited about the drop of IronRuby We took it for a quick spin at work.. and it looks really promising :) As you can read on John Lams blog there are a bunch of things that aren't implemented yet. One of those things would be to enumerate the methods of a class. We thought String would be a good fit as John is explaining how much time they put in that one. so this is what we tried. start up the ironruby console str_test = "Hello World" 10.times { puts str_test } which gives th...
Alex James will be joining Microsoft
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Posted July 20th, 2007 at 4:35 am
I always thought that if there was one guy in NZ that should be working there it's Alex. And today he announced that he will be joining Microsoft in September : http://www.base4.net/Blog.aspx?ID=538 Â Congratulations Alex. I for one am looking forward to the great things you will be doing there....
Dark Visual studio scheme with resharper support
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Posted July 18th, 2007 at 10:32 pm
This is more for my own reference but I decided to put it here. This is the color scheme I've been using over the past couple of weeks. It looks like this:  ///       /// Gets or sets the date.       ///       /// The date.       public DateTime Date       {          get { return date; }          set { date = value; }       }        ///       /// Gets or sets the memberName.       ///    Â...
What’s the deal with MbUnit
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Posted July 18th, 2007 at 6:13 am
Consider the following code :        [Test]       public void StringFormatEqualsTest()       {          string firstString = string.Format("{0}", "test");          string secondString = string.Format("{0}", "test");           Assert.AreNotEqual(firstString, secondString); //test passes       }        [Test]       public void StringEqualsTest()       {          string firstString = "test...
Code camp registrations are now open
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Posted July 16th, 2007 at 2:30 am
How exciting.. we've been planning this for a while but now we can publically announce that code camp registrations are open.
Our next code camp will be the sunday before TechEd and we will be running it in one of the larger TechEd conference rooms.
Hurry to http://www.codecamp.net.nz for registrations and more details.
I know that we've got an impressive list of speakers.
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Hope to see you there !!!...
Unit Testing Legacy Code
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Posted July 15th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
Whenever I'm faced with a bunch of legacy code that I would like to write unit tests for I get quickly demotivated because I know the code works but still i'd love to know if the code will still work after I've been working on it. Lately I've been faced with a lot of legacy code so I decided to make a little tool that does the same as what VSTS testing does when you select generate unit tests. I haven't made an add in yet, it's just a little winforms app I started it this afternoon and i have so...
Wellington – Lunch with geeks (10/7/2007)
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Posted July 11th, 2007 at 10:21 am
We had another lunch session yesterday. It was a quiet session probably because of the Wellington weather, there were 7 people attending.
The first topic we discussed was mobilizing your application.
The first issue that was raised around this subject what usability issues have you got to tackle around mobile applications. Like navigation should be vastly different because of the lack of screen real estate. navigation is mostly done with a joystick or keypad there is no mouse which in itsel...
This blog has been moved and upgraded
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Posted July 8th, 2007 at 9:25 am
I moved my blog to be on webhost4life.com
I'm also changing blogging engines and announcing that I will stop development on nblogr.
NBlogr was almost ready for a v1 release but it has too big of a memory footprint. The footprint is 70MB which is too much for a blog.
To fix this I would have to change my data access layer to a different approach. I decided instead to switch to subtext and I'll see which features I can provide from nblogr for subtext as plugins. I also don't have the tim...
The language debate
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Posted July 4th, 2007 at 1:41 pm
Rowan Simpson: http://rowansimpson.com/2007/07/04/c-vs-vbnet/ Andrew Peters: http://andrewpeters.net/2007/07/03/73/ Alex James: http://www.base4.net/blog.aspx?ID=515 and http://www.base4.net/blog.aspx?ID=520 Nick Randolph: http://community.softteq.com/blogs/nick/archive/2007/07/03/languages-only-part-of-the-equation.aspx Alex Henderson: http://blog.bittercoder.com/PermaLink,guid,05fc0109-3215-410e-8009-447c1e74cacb.aspx Shouldn't be a debate at all. I have a personal preference in languages whi...
