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25Jul
2011 Unable to Restore From Backup Using Windows 7 Recovery CD on a MacIf 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 detailThere 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 projectsDo 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 scamFor 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 BuildIn 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 4In which I try to relate border collies, Dyson vacuum cleaners, City 2 Surf and iPhone 4.
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18Jun
2010 Converting an Expression to a compiled LambdaA quick guide on how to convert an expression to a compiled lambda.
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29May
2010 A few things you might not know about System.NullableThere 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 [...]
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20Feb
2010 Unit Tests As A Refactoring ToolSo 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 [...]
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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 [...]
