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.

I noticed this odd post on SimpleBits, Dan Cederholm’s website. It is a list of words that he can easily type with his left hand. One has to ask for what reason he is keeping his right hand free? But I, being a man of good taste, won’t go there.

I don’t write much about my personal life here because most days are pretty mundane and not unlike other days I’ve had. If I were to write about my day, most entries would look like the following…

Implied policies are policies that are never written in any employee manual, but are implied due to real world practices or are side effects of explicit policies. The classic example is when an employee gives notice to an employer and the employer counter-offers with a raise. In some cases, a raise that was refused earlier.

Security expert Bruce Schneier writes a fantastic essay on the value of privacy. This is a great response to the rhetorical question “If you aren’t doing anything wrong, what do you have to hide?” often used to counter privacy advocates.

Not too long ago I mentioned that the Subtext team is using CruiseControl.NET for continuous integration. Well Simone Chiaretta, the developer who set this up, wrote up an article describing Continuous Integration and the various utilities that Subtext uses in its CI process.