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My ideal IDE
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Seamless test authoring with ReSharper and AutoHotKey
Windows 2008 Workstation and Live Writer
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My ideal IDE
The old joke goes something like, “Oh Visual Studio? Yeah, that’s the tool I use to host ReSharper.” Visual Studio has made lots of strides since the old VS 2002 edition. Before then, it was Visual Studio 6.0, on the much too often occasion...
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Tue, Jul 07 2009 9:57 PM
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Essential tools for web developers
Firefox Firebug Because today I needed a real tool to debug JavaScript. After I spent waaaaay too much time trying to use “window.alert”.
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Wed, May 05 2009 11:19 PM
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Seamless test authoring with ReSharper and AutoHotKey
Although I’m no big believer of code generation, the micro-code generation of ReSharper can be a huge timesaver. For every common snippet of code or common file I would create, I could create a simple template that might create a class, method,...
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Thu, Feb 02 2009 9:38 AM
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Windows 2008 Workstation and Live Writer
After quite a bit of work, I’ve finally been able to post a blog entry with my new Windows 2008 Workstation machine. I recently switched laptops, and have been forced to go silent because of the issues of installing Windows Live Writer on Server...
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Sat, Oct 10 2008 9:50 AM
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Integrating StructureMap with WCF
When developing with an IoC container like StructureMap, eventually some place in your code you will need to call the registry to instantiate your classes with their dependencies. With StructureMap, this means a call to ObjectFactory.GetInstance. Ideally...
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Tue, Jul 07 2008 10:44 PM
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Arrange Act Assert and BDD specifications
With Rhino Mocks 3.5 just around the corner, I've started using it to create much more readable tests. One of the things that always bothered me with Expect.Call, constraints and the like was that it mixed in the Arrange with Assert. For those that...
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Thu, Jul 07 2008 8:18 AM
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Going lean in Visual Studio
Left unchecked, Visual Studio tends to get very cluttered: I found I don't use any of these icons. Copy, Cut, Paste, Undo, Redo? Those are all keyboard shortcuts. Comment and Uncomment? Ctrl+K+C, Ctrl+K+U. Save All? Ctrl+Shift+S. No more, I'm...
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Sat, Jul 07 2008 2:43 PM
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Auto-mocking container pitfalls?
I'm taking a closer look at the auto-mocking container idea, specifically as we're including it in the upcoming release of NBehave. I'm a little wary of prolonged use, but wanted to get some feedback (it's also on the ALT.NET message board...
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Mon, Apr 04 2008 7:57 PM
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Version control with Subversion: so easy my wife can do it
Yes folks, it's true. I have converted my wife to be a loyal Subversion user. My wife is not technical, not by a long shot. But the power of Subversion and the simplicity of TortoiseSVN made the convincing very easy. Ed. note: that's not my wife in the...
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Sat, Apr 04 2008 1:06 PM
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Setting the default browser inside Visual Studio
My default browser is Firefox , and has been for many, many years. But that's not everyone's favorite browser, nor is the one they have to use all day long. When developing web applications for clients, it's important to know what their browser...
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Fri, Feb 02 2008 9:01 AM
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The Gmail rainbow
I love Gmail, and I really love its labels , but I really really love its filters . I had a hard time following all of the groups I wanted until Joe showed me how to drink from the firehose . Now I get greeted with a nice rainbow in Gmail: With this,...
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Wed, Feb 02 2008 9:35 PM
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TestDriven.NET keyboard shortcut
Continuing with the Palermo brain dump theme, Jeffrey introduced me to a keyboard shortcut for running TestDriven.NET tests from a keyboard shortcut. I had been right-clicking and going from the context menu: While the context menu is nice, it has me...
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Wed, Feb 02 2008 8:42 PM
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NHibernate and xmlpoke
Some time ago I wrote about targeting multiple environments through NAnt . The basic concept is to use the xmlpoke task in NAnt to modify any XML configuration files your application might use. One setting that changes in each deployment we have is the...
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Wed, Feb 02 2008 9:45 PM
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Team System and open source
A note to all open source developers in .NET: DO NOT use any exclusive Team System features in your open source projects! Team System and the Team Edition flavors do not mix with open source projects. I opened up the SDC Tasks Library on CodePlex and...
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Thu, Feb 02 2008 8:30 AM
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Best tool for the job
I'm not sure if this is a trap, but I find myself doing this more and more. Let's say you have a short (less than 2 weeks) project to work on, and maybe it's for a church website or something similar. Non-business critical, but the customer...
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Mon, Jan 01 2008 8:18 AM
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