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  • 25Jul
    2011
    Unable to Restore From Backup Using Windows 7 Recovery CD on a Mac

    If you are restoring from backup made using Windows 7 Backup and Restore system image on Mac you might find that you can’t access network location containing the backup. This is due to the network card’s driver not being loaded. Don’t worry though, there is a solution and once the driver is loaded the restore [...]

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  • 20Jun
    2011
    iPhone – A very little little detail

    There is a Tumblr blog out there -http://littlebigdetails.com that mainly deals with oohing and aahing about Apple’s “awesome” UI and attention to detail. Apple is sometimes good at that, but not that as much as they think they are. Just look at Finder. So the other day I found the most useless UI detail in [...]

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  • 31May
    2011
    DDD – Defect Driven Development – The inevitable agile stage of waterfall projects

    Do you ever get an urge to do things properly? To stop screwing around, plan ahead and execute the plan meticulously? I mean, proper planning is the only way to get big projects completed on time. Right?… Right? The end result, for the projects that I was involved in, was inevitably disappointing.

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  • 31Jan
    2011
    Oz Power Saver is a scam

    For those of who were unfortunate enough to catch some of tonight’s ACA that promoted Oz Power Saver, you’d be pleased to know that the device is a complete scam. Just in case you are still wondering, here is a very detailed explanation of these devices are supposed to be saving you money and how [...]

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  • 31Oct
    2010
    Coverage, ASP.NET MVC Coverage, SpecFlow in MS Team Build

    In this post I will go through creating solutions with code coverage, including ASP.NET MVC projects, setting up MS Test Specflow projects and getting all that to run on MS Team Build 2010. The default out of the box setup for doing the above is not too tricky, however Team Build has stricter test pass [...]

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  • 31Jul
    2010
    Why My Dyson Is A Better Smartphone Than iPhone 4

    In which I try to relate border collies, Dyson vacuum cleaners, City 2 Surf and iPhone 4.

    border-collie dyson iphone

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  • 18Jun
    2010
    Converting an Expression to a compiled Lambda

    A quick guide on how to convert an expression to a compiled lambda.

    csharp expressions lamdbas

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  • 29May
    2010
    A few things you might not know about System.Nullable

    There is plenty of information about Nullable<T> type out there and how to use it. There are, however a few tidbits that are not quite as obvious at first glance. Nullable is a value type It’s a struct that can be null. The only reason why int? intVal = null; compiles is because C# compiler [...]

    c++ Development

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  • 20Feb
    2010
    Unit Tests As A Refactoring Tool

    So I have this class that is a bit too fat and has no unit tests. It’s way overdue for a clean up. I thought I would investigate how to refactor with unit tests. Application The application in question is a fairly normal case of a business DSL where the domain rules are expressed in [...]

    csharp tdd unit-testing

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  • 09Feb
    2010
    I Like Words – Or Introduction Into Functional Programming and F#.

    If you hoped to find some sort of functional programming introduction here you are sadly mistaken. This is MY introduction into such said programming. Or it is more like “I’ve read up on F#, my brain exploded and spilled out into this blog post”. I would like to start off by comparing programming languages to [...]

    f# functional-programming

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    • iPhone – A very little little detail
    • DDD – Defect Driven Development – The inevitable agile stage of waterfall projects
    • Git Rebase – more than a machine gun to shoot yourself in the foot with
    • How Path to Happiness Is, Surprisingly, Doing What You Love (and StackOverflow)
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