I want to share with you an experience I had today – I solved a bug… Although I solve bugs each day as part of my work this bug was different: On my way back from work today I called a friend to see how he is doing. He is on the way to earning … Continue reading How to find a bug in an application you didn’t write
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When I’ve started learning IronPython I choose #Develop as my IDE. Because it had IronPython intellisense and debugging support it seemed like a good fit for my simple project. When my project needed basic UI I rolled up my sleeves and wrote a winform control line by line. It seems that the good people of … Continue reading SharpDevelop 3.1 Beta released – with some IronPython goodness
This happened today while I was debugging a failing test using visual studio Weird...
The maker of StackOverflow have created an IT centric site where IT professionals can ask and answer questions. Although I don’t consider myself an IT professional I need to do some server & network administration at work and home and I find myself constantly wishing for a site just like this. Server Fault is similar … Continue reading Server Fault enters private Beta
I have been outside of the whole website creation in .NET scene for too long. Although I never stopped learning about web related technologies in the last year I focused mainly on desktop applications at my work and at home. The latest developments of the .NET world made me decide that perhaps it is the … Continue reading What should I use MVC or WebForms
Last week I wrote a post on my company's blog about the cost of TDD (or more accurately how much money it saves). One of the reasons I wrote that post because it think that when discussing TDD the cost/benefit ratio never comes up. Today I found that Andrew Woodward has wrote a review of … Continue reading The cost of Test Driven Development
One of the problems I've encountered while working on a x64 machine is that I need to run NUnit as 32bit if I want to run a test assembly that was compiled as a x86 assembly. In fact I had several similar occasions when I needed to run applications on my computer as 32bit executables. … Continue reading How To run as 32bit executable on a 64bit machine
Today was the 2nd time I managed to cause a machine at work to not be able to uninstall the project I've been working on. During installation tests I "accidentally" deleted part of the registry and resulting in not being able to uninstall the MSI (because it wasn't there) and not being able to install … Continue reading How to remove a setup package with a known uninstall bug
Late yesterday night I needed to needed to find information in MSDN so I opened my trusted web browser only to be greeted by this sight: Like the software developer that I am I've tried to blame my hardware (screen) for my grief. unfortunately after opening a different web browser I couldn't avoid the conclusion … Continue reading New Firefox feature – burnt screen?!
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