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Monday, June 30, 2008 6:34 PM

Broken Unit Tests, Code Changes, and Refactoring

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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Saturday, June 28, 2008 5:24 PM

Modern Computer Power Rulez!

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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Sunday, June 01, 2008 11:10 AM

Visual Studio.NET, C#, and Excel 2007...

...with a bit o' Office 07' thrown in for spice. This is my accumulated link listing that I've gathered over the last few days during research of Office 2007, and Excel 2007 specifically.  There are some links on deployment and issues between developing
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Thursday, May 29, 2008 4:19 PM

Software Project Failures to NOT Imitate

Click to see a larger image. Technorati Tags: Fail,Failure,Bloat,Wasted,Software,Project del.icio.us Tags: Fail,Failure,Bloat,Wasted,Software,Project
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008 2:32 PM

New Toys! RAID Those Drives!

So I just bought two new laptop drives for the Dell 1720 that I have.  I figured I should keep hold of this machine for at least another year or so, and new drives that are easily faster and bigger than the current single drive would help me do just
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008 2:17 PM

Daily Blurbs, Keeping Up, and Some Links

Excel Project My current project is leading me in some interesting ways.  One of the major focus points that I'll be touching on is development with .NET against Excel and prospectively Excel Services.  Most of what I'll be working on is primarily
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008 4:43 PM

Back to the Agile

So I had an initial project kick off for this new effort I'm jumping into.  So far we've agreed to work by a fairly solid agile type methodology.  Not extreme or any of the other tenants of agile, but strong communication, people over tools,
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Thursday, May 22, 2008 3:34 PM

ReSharper 4.0 Beta beta is out...

http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/beta/beta.html The official ReSharper 4.0 beta is released (they made an official e-mail broadcast).  So if you even look at C# code (or VB) you know what to do.  Go GET IT!  Technorati Tags: ReSharper
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008 3:27 PM

Blogs, .NET Blogs, Blogging AAAGGGH!

I was talking with a co-worker recently.  He had stumbled onto Scott Hanselman's Blog.  We started talking about the major blogs that could/should/probably be read on a regular basis and what information they provide.  I came up with a
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008 8:32 AM

Ugh, The Verbing Subjectized, Verbeeized!

Hello Blogosphere, This is my short rant on two words that drive me nuts and often make fairly educated people sound stupid. It reads, "- Produce well architected, efficient SQL within a complex data model. Demonstrate ability to troubleshoot database
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Thursday, April 10, 2008 11:05 AM

A Renaming - Rogue, Mercenary?

I got to thinking about my work patterns and what I've been getting accomplished.  It far exceeds what I thought I would be remotely doing 10 years ago, even 5 years ago I've blown away my wildest "reasonable" expectations of the future.  In
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Tuesday, April 01, 2008 11:03 AM

Hectic, Crazy, No Time

So I've been going nuts lately, literally not having even a moment in the afternoon for a beer after work.  Next week though I'm going to have a beer after work for sure!  The insanity of tons of work is ebbing finally. The next big things I
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008 2:34 PM

Spy Hunter

I'm not a Pontiac fan, but this in particular was just too awesome of an ad to pass up. Found via a fellow technology industry cohort Amybeth Hale.  So check out memories of spy hunter.
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Sunday, February 24, 2008 11:43 PM

Hackers, Crackers, Coders, WOWers N' Backspace

I go downtown to Backspace a lot, as often as possible.  Aside from riding around on the Streetcar with the ole' trusty laptop out Backspace is probably one of my top favorites for coding away.  Good coffee, good donuts and other such foods,
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