October 2007 - Jason Meridth - Los Techies : Blogs about software and anything tech!

Trinity football wins game with 15 laterals on last play

I was very hesitant to post this on LosTechies (non-technical content), but after some thought I think this is worth it. I'm a Trinity alumni and also played football there for 2 years. This is absolutely amazing. If the embedded source doesn't...

Published Mon, Oct 29 2007 8:30 AM by Jason Meridth

Filed under: Personal

ASP.NET MVC article in Code Magazine

Jeffrey Palermo gives an introduction to ASP.NET MVC in the recent issue of Code Magazine . Check it out.

Published Mon, Oct 29 2007 6:50 AM by Jason Meridth

Filed under: ASP.NET MVC

Google Reader keyboard shortcuts

I'm a keyboard junkie. The less I have to use the mouse, the happier I am. If you want to use keyboard shortcuts in Google reader, you can get help by pressing shift+/ (aka, the ?). This will pop up a modal window listing all the commands. Happing...

Published Sun, Oct 28 2007 7:31 AM by Jason Meridth

Filed under: Blogs, keyboard shortcuts, Google Reader

NAnt-GUI

For individuals who do not like command prompt, you can use a GUI tool to handle your NAnt build files. This was mentioned on the Alt.NET yahoo group . Check it out here . I just played with it briefly and it does it's job. You are able to also run...

Published Sat, Oct 27 2007 6:49 PM by Jason Meridth

Filed under: Automated Build, NAnt

Rhino Mocks 3.3 is out!!

Check out Oren's (Ayende Rahien) post here . Download it here . The most significant change that I like is the ability to setup expectations on void methods with Expect.Call. Check out Oren's other post about this here .

Published Fri, Oct 26 2007 12:35 PM by Jason Meridth

Filed under: .NET, Programming, ASP.NET, Mocking, C#

CruiseControl and Web Application MSBuild Targets

I was one of the developers that installed the Web Application Projects MSI before Visual Studio Service Pack 1 was available. After the service pack came out, I didn't uninstall the MSI and just installed the SP. We all know and heard the horror...

Published Wed, Oct 24 2007 10:59 AM by Jason Meridth

Filed under: Visual Studio, CruiseControl.NET, Continuous Integration

Pidgin - Instant Messaging

I have started using Pidgin instant messaging. It consolidates my Google Talk, MSN Messenger, and Yahoo Accounts. I've used Trillian in the past with success but it doesn't include Google Talk. I also have Skype for voice messaging. I hope Pidgin...

Published Wed, Oct 24 2007 9:35 AM by Jason Meridth

Filed under: Instant Messaging

My Typical Day

In response to Joe Ocampo's (AgileJoe) question : My typical day. 5:30 Wake-up 5:45 Wake-up wife, start taking care of son 5:45-7:00 Feed him, smile when he gives me his morning "present" (a doody diaper), and change him 7:00 Take him to...

Published Sat, Oct 20 2007 10:26 PM by Jason Meridth

Filed under: Misc, Blogs

Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) release today!

If you are a Linux fan (or you already know of Ubuntu), the downloads for 7.10 became available today. Check out my previous post on the new features.

Published Thu, Oct 18 2007 8:17 AM by Jason Meridth

Filed under: Linux, Ubuntu

Routing from ASP.NET MVC inspires MonoRail

According to the recent check-in on MonoRail (build 586), they are setting the foundation to having routing just like ASP.NET MVC. Very cool. http://builds.castleproject.org/cruise/ViewSpecific.castle?name=CastleProject&log=log20071017002115Lbuild...

Published Tue, Oct 16 2007 10:46 PM by Jason Meridth

Filed under: monorail, ASP.NET, MVC

Nerdy afternoon

1. My 2GB USB key drive has been bent for about 1 week so I almost bought a 4GB at Fry's last weekend for $89. I hesitated and it's a good thing. I went to CompUSA today and saw that they were selling 4GB SanDisk Cruzers for $39. I went and got...

Published Sun, Oct 14 2007 9:06 PM by Jason Meridth

Filed under: Misc, Tools, Hardware

CodeBetter.CommunityServerExtensions

I like to give people credit when I use their software. One particular developer is Brendan Tompkins of Devlicio.us . We (LosTechies) have added 2 features available from his CodeBetter.CommunityServerExtensions : Kick It: For those that don't know...

Published Fri, Oct 12 2007 10:31 PM by Jason Meridth

Filed under: Tools, Blogs, Community Server

Alt.NET Day 2

I apologize for the delay of this post. It was a great weekend and I learned a great deal about other developers and myself. It has also made me hit the code harder. I don't know how Oren or BREAKFAST I had a chance to meet with some developers while...

Published Wed, Oct 10 2007 11:20 PM by Jason Meridth

Filed under: altnetconf

Scotticus

"Even A**holes do great things" ~ (stated by Scott at the end of the ALT.net conference) I agree with many others, a big thanks goes out to Scott and the other leaders of the ALT.net conference for putting it together. It was weird being 1 of...

Published Wed, Oct 10 2007 9:55 PM by Jason Meridth

Filed under: altnetconf

2.6.23 Kernel, "Finally. Yeah, it got delayed"

Finally. Yeah, it got delayed, not because of any huge issues, but because of various bugfixes trickling in and causing me to reset my 'release clock' all the time. But it's out there now, and hopefully better for the wait, " Linus Torvalds...

Published Wed, Oct 10 2007 9:15 PM by Jason Meridth

Filed under: Linux, Kernel

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