This is the blog of a chap who is riding a teched out motorcycle computer (which he calls his “motocompy”) from San Diego to my homestate Alaska. I helped him get his Subtext blog setup so he can blog the entire trip.

Leading up to the world cup there was a lot of attention to how the World Cup would affect the wives of soccer football crazy men. Some were on the humorous side such as this list of rules for women, while others attempt to help women avoid becoming a world cup widow.

Today I ran across some code in a 3rd party open source library that used the following function in order to retrieve the form id.

World Cup Fever!.

If you are hosting multiple blogs on a single installation of Subtext, the recent Subtext 1.5 release unfortunately introduces a security bug that will allow an admin of one blog to login to another blog. The fix has already been posted to Sourceforge as part of the Subtext 1.5.1 release.

IMPORTANT UPDATE: There was a security bug in Subtext 1.5 for multiblog setups that will allow the admin of one blog to login to another blog. If you are only using a single blog setup, you have nothing to worry about. For multiblog setups, please upgrade to Subtext 1.5.1. The change is a single line change in Subtext.Framework.dll so if you have already upgraded to Subtext 1.5, you can simply copy over the old Subtext.Framework.dll file with the new one instead of copying every file from the installation package. Sorry for the the inconvenience. Download Subtext 1.5.1.

In the Subtext 1.5 release announcement, I mentioned we had a few new skins. I thought I would post a couple of screenshots of the Submarine skin to give you a sense of what it looks like.

Found a useful nugget in Richter’s recent CLR via C# book I want to share with you. But first some background.

As you may well know, today is June 6, 2006 or in shorthand notation 6/6/06, the mark of the beast. As the church lady would say, “mmmmm, isn’t that special?”

If you’ve read my blog for any length of time, you know that I am a fan of the MbUnit generative unit test framework.

Recently I highlighted a site named DotNetKicks which is like Digg.com, but targetted to .NET technology. In particular I thought it was a smart move for them to share in their advertising revenue with those who submit stories.

…worth blogging about.

I recently learned about DotNetKicks due to a referral in my referrer logs. It is essentially a Digg knockoff, but tightly focused on the .NET community, which makes it a nice complement to Digg.

Scott Allen writes about a Branching and Merging primer (doc) written by Chris Birmele. It is a short but useful tool agnostic look at branching and merging in the abstract. This is a nice complement to my favorite tutorial on source control, Eric Sink’s Source Control HOWTO.

I have been looking for this for a looong time.

Greg Young takes my Testing Mail Server to task and asks the question, what does it test that a mock provider doesn’t?

In spirit, this is a follow-up to my recent post on unit-testing email functionality.

My wife received a free day at the Glen Ivy Hot Springs Spa from our friends Dan and Judy (the same Dan to whom my last non-geek post was dedicated).

So you are coding along riding that TDD high when you reach the point at which your code needs to send an email. What do you do now?

Last night we went out with friends to celebrate Akumi’s birthday. Somehow the topic of my blog came up in conversation. Perhaps I have a tendency to interject the topic of “blogging” every chance I get. I can be annoying that way.