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...and this is why you won't feel like a nasty sardine on a train! Acela vs. Airline ShuttleSeat width (maximum) 23" 19"Seat pitch (maximum) 42" 34"AC electrical outlets ...
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Maybe Real Solutions and No More Damned Band Aid Fixes? I think I'm voting for Texas on that note. I'm sitting in Centralia, Washington enjoying a great breakfast at the Olympic Club and I overhear a conversation on this topic. An older group...
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I've been in the immediate downtown of Portland for 3+ years now. However there has always been a desire to increase the square footage of the residence and to get a bit more connected in location to transit. When I lived in the south west, at the...
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I just stumbled upon an idea. Yeah, obviously I'm a transit fan or nut or FRN or whatever you want to call me. I dig knowing how things work and transit is definitely one of those things. I was recently being the transit hobbyist that...
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Yesterday was rough going, mainly just because there was so many topics to cover. Today I hope to nail a ton more functional code segments, requirements, and get some unit tests in my work. Yesterday Finished clarification of the task list and...
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So yeah, if you don't know him, or haven't worked with him, or haven't tasted any of his fine beverages you should make a point to meet this guy. If you can... I'm fortunate I got to work with Mr. Thatcher as he is an A+ Developer (That's an A+...
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We scrummed, but then kind of fell of into planning today. Thus no real serious throughput was achieved. We did rectify many questions and clarify what was meant for many of the specifications for the application. It was a very productive...
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I'm not sure if this would be interesting or not to others, but first and foremost this blog is about me maintaining a history of what I do on the projects I work, what I'm accomplishing, and the technologies I'm working with. With that said this...
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A few blogs I found detailing the API/Object/Library features for getting my documents and other associated paths. So don't hard code em' if you don't have to. Hard Coding "My Documents"? Fix Your Code Environment.GetFolderPath MSDN Documentation...
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So whoever said that was and is full of ______. Anyway, TriMet gains along with every other transit agency in the country right now. It sure is a good thing we have "something" left after the Governmental and Monopolistic actions of the last 100+...
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Navigate back to Part 2 of this series of entries. Ok, ok, ok, the other two parts where lean on the unit tests. Now we get down to the mocking, faking, and testing. The first two tests I wrote have to do with the UserListing Entity. ...
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So, if you live in the Portland area and are interested in web analytics or analytics or just want to meet, discuss over a few beers and chit chat on cool geek topics - swing into Henry's on the 23rd. We all have a great time and you'll meet some...
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Alvin, this list is awesome. It's already become useful as I've saved the LINQ card and definitely will be using it. For some reason the stupid functional stuff just will not stick in my head. I'll get it yet though!...
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Navigate back to Part 1 of this series of entries. The next steps I undertook are some of my various clean ups. Create respective test classes for each of the pieces of the database that will have respective entities, methods, or objects to test....
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Just a few examples here. First we'll setup the basic architecture from the lowest common denominator - the database - bounce up to the first layer, and test in isolation and test in integration. These examples are simply the easiest ways...
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Best news I've heard in a while. I might just have to pair up the Z with a new ?? Silvia? http://www.7tune.com/2010-nissan-fr-sports-coupe/ 1200kg, 200+ HP. Hehehe, that does NOT sound like a bottom of the totem pole performer, but whatever...
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I'm working on getting things into and out of Excel. In one scenario I copy an Excel Range or Rows from one Excel Worksheet to a Worksheet in another Workbook. This Workbook then acts as a storage repository for the Range of Rows and is saved...
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Based on experience and the experience of many others, do we really want police everywhere all the time? Especially when they don't enforce actual laws but instead harass and irritate the populace instead? Today I did my normal commute, which these...
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So the build broke based on a unit test that failed. Is the general rule of thumb that the build breaking check in person fixes the test? What if they did something that broke someone else's test for something? ...hmm, the philosophy of project...
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Ok, so maybe I'm just a person who likes people to respect each other. Maybe I'm jumping the issue to think that police officers should be examples of respect and not those that need examples of respect. Ok, so maybe I'm expecting too much of our...
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I was running three virtual machines on my laptop and couldn't help but think, this is awesome. I couldn't have imagined doing this 6-7 years ago. That is three operating systems running in virtual machines. Windows 2003, Windows XP,...
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So all these vehicles for TriMet are arriving without me being able to find out ahead of time the exact locations and stuff. It seems I've fallen out of the loop. Oh well, that happens sometimes. This last week the new S/70 cars arrived. The...
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...and I hate it. Excel has a model, that seems to be broken all the time, and appears that there are a zillion ways to do things that are not a preferred way. The most common situation seems that Excel either breaks, crashes hard, eats up on the...
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Recently a situation were I needed to pull out the dependency injection and inversion of control skills came up again. The need for loose coupling in so many projects is vital to these patterns. I was going to start writing an article, but...
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The VS.NET integrated build monitor is great. This thing helps you keep track of your latest changes, the status of the build, and other information right at your fingertips. If you're using ReSharper and NUnit (or other integrated test framework)...
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