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Getting Started with MvcSiteMapProvider
I recently had the pleasure of working with MvcSiteMapProvider from Maarten Balliauw. So easy did I find it to use that I thought a quick post to spread the word and share some love was in order....
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Simple XCF to JPEG Batch Conversion Script
Introduction A little while ago I wrote this very simple Gimp script to do a batch conversion of all .xcf files in a directory into .jpg files of a moderate quality. To install just copy the below code...
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Settling Temporal Dependencies and Providing a Testing Seam with a Tuple
Having recently written a wrapper around WCF’s ChannelFactory class I ended up with an interface that looked like this: public interface MySlightlyAwesomeChannelFactoryInterface<TContract> {...
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7 Languages in 7 Weeks. Week 1: Ruby. Day 1
Mary, Mary Quite Contrary First up in our tour of 7 languages is Ruby. A language Bruce Tate characterises as Mary Poppins (It’s okay, I did the Dick van Dyke impression too). Day 1 of Ruby sees us...
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7 Languages in 7 Weeks. Week 1: Ruby Day 2
There’s Something About Mary Something of an Awakening I can be a bit of a language snob. This is usually an unfair knee-jerk reaction. Except when it comes to VB, of course :) And I have a bad habit...
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7 Languages in 7 Weeks. Week 1: Ruby Day 3
Mary, Meta Today Mary Ruby goes Meta. We explored some techniques for using Ruby to create, er, more Ruby. My previous posts on the 7 Languages in 7 Weeks have been of an unsustainable length so I am...
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7 Languages in 7 Weeks. Week 2: Io Day 1
Io> Ferris live So week 2 brings me (a week late) to a language I’ve never heard of before. As Ruby was Mary Poppins, so Io is, apparently, Ferris Bueller. I have a poor familiarity with Ferris...
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Does Intellisense Damage Productivity?
I have been thinking about productivity lately and have come to wonder about the unintended consequences of intellisense in modern IDEs. Productivity is efficiently undertaking what you are primarily...
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HTTP Archive (HAR) to CSV Command Line Tool
Recently I’ve been doing some work to monitor the performance of a web application we develop. There are several places in the pipeline of the web request that are useful to monitor – from the times...
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Crafty Coders Lifts Off
Thursday saw the start of a new user group in the West Midlands. Crafty Coders hit the ground running with a great run through of Dependency Injection from Ian Russell. I am biased but I think the...
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Your Software is Wrong…but that’s okay
Here’s the thing – software is wrong. We create software to manage change: bring about efficiencies, enable easier regulatory compliance, make the difficult easy and the impossible doable. It’s all...
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