Simple Introduction to Unit Testing

For some unknown reason, I fell in love with Unit Testing after first reading about it a few years ago. I think it’s the concept of trying to break another developer’s code, trying to out think another developer, and trying to find holes in their implementation that intrigues me. I haven’t written as many Unit [...]

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Are you in the 80% or the 20% of programmers?

Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror writes an interesting article worth mentioning and reading by any programmers out there. He points out that there’s only two types of programmers.
Jeff’s article is based on Ben Collins-Sussman’s article written about a week earlier. Ben writes:
The 20% folks are what many would call “alpha” programmers — the leaders, [...]

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I’m glad it has a name…

This morning’s Dilbert cartoon had me rolling.  The pointy-hair boss commands Dilbert’s team to start using Agile programming.  In the boss’s description, he states that Agile programming means “no more planning and no more documentation.” The boss goes on saying that the programmers can “start writing code and complaining.”
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Free HD content

After recently purchasing my HDTV, I found that my cable provider sends the local channels (ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, CW/WB) over the cable for free. If I had a antenna set up, then I could get HD free from the signal feed, but it’s nice to get  something for free. These HD feeds are called [...]

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Debugging assembly loading within a unit test project

I reorganized one of my projects and discovered that my MbUnit tests no longer worked. The error stated that one of the assemblies could not be loaded, but it worked fine before I removed and added the project to another solution. The assembly in question was the SubSonic assembly.
This took me a little while to [...]

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Beowulf: IMAX 3D Experience (Movie Review)

Best movie evar…
IMAX 3D…
I wasn’t too familiar with the Beowulf story, but I knew a little about it before seeing this movie. I had wanted to see the movie based on the previews, but I had never seen a IMAX 3D movie before. Sure, I’d seen a few IMAX movies and a few 3D [...]

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Jim 2.0 goes high-def

It’s been a while since my last post and that’s mostly due to a few new distractions including a new TV and console. I’ve upgraded my living room to include:
Sony Bravia 46″ LCD KDL-46W3000
XBOX 360 Elite with:

HD-DVD player with universal media remote
Marvel Ultimate Alliance (included with console)
Forza Motorsport 2 (included with [...]

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ASP.NET AJAX Rich Text Editor

I’ve been looking for a nice ASP.NET AJAX text editor control for a little while now. There’s quite a few JavaScript based controls and AJAX controls using other AJAX libraries, but I’ve been trying to keep my projects to a single AJAX library.
The author, Kannan Sundararajan, posted the source code over at CodePlex. His friend [...]

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Spider-Man 3: The battle within (Movie Review)

As you may have noticed with my last movie review, I’m a bit behind on watching movies. I’m just now getting around to watching Spider-Man 3 on DVD.
Growing up, Spider-Man was never one of my favorite superheroes. I always thought that Peter Parker was too whiny in the comics and so far I think they’ve [...]

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Saving and truncating values to fit with SubSonic

For one of my applications that I’m working on, I have two different data sources where one needs to push data to the other. However, since both data sources were not designed for this, there’s a few destination fields that are shorter than the source fields.
To resolve this, I needed to truncate any values to [...]

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