Poor Twiggy Broke Her Leg Yesterday
Twiggy was at a newly opened small
dog park when a group of other small dogs suddenly ganged up on her. Of
course they couldn’t catch her because she’s a speed demon, but she must
have caught her foot in a grate on the ground (extremely bad idea for a
small dog park to have a grate on the ground) and broke her leg just
above her ankle.
Why Code Coverage is not Enough
One of the holy grails for unit testing is to get 100% code coverage from your tests. However, you can’t sit back and smoke a cigar when you reach that point and assume your code is invulnerable. Code coverage just is not enough.
Read MoreUPDATE: Copy Source As HTML
Colin shows how to configure CopySourceAsHtml for any source file that VS.NET provides syntax highlighting. In my case, I’ve mapped the shortcut CTRL+C CTRL+S to the Copy command and CTRL+C CTRL+N to CopyNow command.
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Copy Source As HTML
My main man Colin is on fire with his latest version of CopySourceAsHtml add-in.
Read MoreBlogJet and RSS Bandit integration
There is now a plug-in to use BlogJet to blog items from RSS Bandit. I haven’t tested it yet, but if the plug-in doesn’t do anything specific to RSS Bandit, it should be usable by any aggregator that supports the IBlogExtension interface. Want to write your own plug-in? Read my guide here.
Read MoreAdding a Windows Service Description
When building an installer for a Windows Service in VS.NET 2003, conspicuously missing is the ability to specify a description for the service that is displayed in the Services applet.
Read MoreOrdered a Tablet PC
So after much deliberation, I’ve decided on the M205 with a 60GB hard-drive, 512MB Ram, and a DVD-CD ROM drive etc… etc..
Read MoreLast Game of the Season
Today the soccer team I started
playing with had their last game of the season. This was only my second
game with them and we were playing the first place team in the league.
This team was much slower than our last opponent and not as skillful,
but were known for playing very dirty.
Ali G Translator
if you’ve watched da show yous probably ave
wondered, ow can i attract da wicked bitches dig dat awesome omeboy? da
secret is to learn to bang dig im? well in da house’s your chance to
learns da ons and out of ali g-speak. respek!
This is So Me
If blogging had been around when I was a kid…
Read MoreDeploying ASP.NET Apps With UnleashIt
RSS Bandit Synchronization Using GMail Drive Shell Extension
If you haven’t heard, RSS Bandit can synchronize its state (feedlist, read/unread, etc…) across multiple machines. I wrote about it in the RSS Bandit docs.
Read MoreSOAP vs. REST in the Real World
There’s a lot of focus these days on SOAP vs REST and the proliferation of WS-* specifications. Sometimes you wonder if WS-* solves problems that aren’t all that common or have already been solved.
Read MoreComment Spam
Adam tells me he
doesn’t support comments nor the
CommentAPI because he
doesn’t want to deal with comment spam. So the day after admonishing him
for being anti-social, I get hit by a slew of comment spam pointing to
porn sites and selling Ginzu knifes. Did you know those things can cut
right through a can?
Why Not Convert HTML to XML?
Pat Gannon (no blog) makes a great point in the comments on my post about using regular expressions to parse HTML. He says:
Read MoreUsing a Regular Expression to Match HTML
I just love regular expressions. I mean look at the sample below.
Read MoreBloglines subscription
Weird. I did a google search for an entry in my blog and one of the results was a bloglines account that had my blog subscribed. I was basically seeing all the blogs that some bloglines user was subscribed to. Is that a feature of bloglines to expose your subscriptions like that? Or is that a privacy flaw?
Read MoreDare Makes a Move to be More Social
Dare Obasanjo, the project lead on the RSS Bandit project (of which I contribute) is leaving his post as a Program Manager on the XML team at Microsoft to work as a Program Manager on the MSN Communication Services Platform team.
Read MorePartisan Bush Joke: Intelligence Riddle
Since I like to stoke the fire of partisanship… This joke was sent to me by my friend Walter.
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