Create Your Own Motivator Poster

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This tool is really cool. It’s a tool used to make those cheesy Motivator posters. Or, go to this tool and make a Demotivator poster.

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Productive Unit Testing with Specialized Assertion Classes in MbUnit

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If you’ve worked with unit test frameworks like NUnit or MbUnit for a while, you are probably all too familiar with the set of assertion methods that come built into these frameworks. For example:

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Comedy Of Errors Bringing A Server Back From The Dead

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Not too long ago I mentioned that a power surge bricked the Subtext Build Server. What followed was a comedy of errors on my part in trying to get this sucker back to life. Let my sleep deprived misadventures be a cautionary tale for you.

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Help a Brother Out And Fight Diabetes

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My friend Scott Hanselman is on a mission to raise $50,000 and then some for the American Diabetes Association to help fund the search for a cure.

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Installing Ubuntu on Virtual PC for Windows Lovers

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I am a total noob when it comes to working with Linux. The only experience I have with Unix is in college when I used to pipe the manual of trn via the write command to unsuspecting classmates. If I remember correctly, this is how you do it.

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Setting PropertyBehavior On All Properties With Rhino Mocks

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Although I am a big fan of Rhino Mocks, I typically favor State-Based over Interaction-Based unit testing, though I am not totally against Interaction Based testing.

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MIX07 Pics From Mix

Thought I’d post a few pics from mix with some notes.

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Mix07 And The Italian Jersey

Just a couple of notes while I have a break during the conference. I’ll try to find some time to write about my impressions of the technologies when I’ve had time to reflect.

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Mix07 I Am Terrible At Being Interviewed

Yesterday, while hanging out in the so called “BlogZone”, Tim Heuer pulled me aside for a audio short interview on the topic of Subtext and Open Source, two things I love to talk about and good luck getting me to shut up once you get me started. ;)

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Arrived at Mix 07

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Well Jon and I arrived safely, driving into Vegas around 4 PM last evening. Upon arriving, we met up with Miguel De Icaza, the founder of the Mono project, and headed over to the Mashup Lounge where we ran into John Osborne, a senior editor with O’ Reilly.

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Building a Continuous Integration Process In An Hour On DNRTV

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If you’ve read my blog at all, you know I’m a big proponent of Continuous Integration (CI). For the Subtext project, we use CruiseControl.NET. I’ve written about our build process in the past.

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Prose Is Dead. Long Live Prose

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Charlez Petzold makes the following lament in response to Jeff Atwood’s review of two WPF books, one being Petzold’s.

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Insert Code for Windows Live Writer

Several pople have asked me recently about the nice code syntax highlighting in my blog. For example:

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Extract Embedded Resources With An Attribute In MbUnit

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UPDATE: This functionality is now rolled into the latest version of MbUnit.

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The Death Of The Subtext Build Server

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Take a good look at this picture.

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Avoid Using a Database as an API Integration Point

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Before I begin, I should clarify what I mean by using a database as an API integration point.

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Write Readable Code By Making Its Intentions Clear

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I don’t think it’s too much of a stretch to say that the hardest part of coding is not writing code, but reading it. As Eric Lippert points out, Reading code is hard.

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British Music Stars and Soccer In Los Angeles

According to FeedBurner, many of my readers are from London, so I thought you might enjoy this little tale.

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Some New Subtext Skins

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Tim Heuer has been on a tear lately submitting some great new skins to the Subtext Skin Showcase, which is part of SubtextSkins.com.

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CSS Control Adapters Double PostBack Issue

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My Coworker (and Subtext co-admin) Steve Harman writes about a weird double PostBack issue he ran into recently when using CSS Friendly Control Adapters with the CreateUserWizard Membership Provider control.

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