Misc
Misc
Over the last couple weeks I’ve spoken to a few people about something I’m calling QA Based Testing, and I figured it would be a good time to write about it. There’s been a lot of attention around Test Driven Development in the last couple years. TDD does take some practice to get used to and it requires team participation. If your boss tells you to “do it right now” while he looks over your shoulder waiting to alert the business that it’s ready, you might have a hard time practicing TDD ;). But there’s another way to...
Mike Gleason Jr has a bit.ly client library written in C# called BitlyDotNet (it’s hosted on here on Google Code). If it wasn’t cool enough before, it just got more awesome. I submitted a new version with the following improvements: Added support for error code 208 ("you have exceeded your hourly rate limit for this method") Overload to shorten multiple URLs in one shot Fixed bug that occurred when hourly limit was exceeded (SingleOrDefault throws InvalidOperationException because of multiple errorCode nodes) This library saved me time on...
It looks like I might be giving a course on Beginning .NET Development to non developers with IT backgrounds. I'm putting together my lectures and it's really hard. I want to make sure that I explain things so others can understand them. Even though this is a .NET course (with a web-based slant), I really see it as a fundamental software development (crash) course. You can’t become a great developer without understanding what’s going on behind the scenes. If you have any thoughts or advice on any of the topics at hand (am I missing a topic? are...
All I can say is I love my Gunnar Optiks Rx computer glasses. My whole body just feels better at the end of the day and I have a lot less sensitivity to light at 10pm. In general, during my day, I concentrate more and lose myself in my work more since I got these glasses. I highly recommend them to everyone who spends most of their day in front of a computer monitor.
Well, that didn’t work! I thought it would be pretty easy to convert to Subtext from Wordpress (even though it’s a bit of a hack) as I mentioned in this blog post. However, I was very mistaken. I was able to export from SubText to BlogML (after installing Wordpress on my local machine etc) but the outputted BlogML file caused an error while importing to SubText. After spending a couple hours on it I decided I would be better off just taking the important posts from Wordpress, downloading them into Windows Live Writer, and...