ElegantCode

A software blog

9 Aug
2004

Training at Pluralsight

Having taken Guerilla courses from Developmentor when these guys where the trainers, I cannot say enough good things about the newly-formed training company, Pluralsight. Their first major class offering will be held at the Microsoft campus and is called “.Net Campsite – Server edition”. I am looking for ways to send several of our staff to this […]

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4 Aug
2004

Coding on a VM

I have made the official shift to coding only within a Virtual Machine. I actually uninstalled Visual Studio from my base laptop and only have access to it through a VM. The straw that broke the camel’s back on this one was a Visual Studio add-in that corrupted my Visual Studio install. Reinstalling Visual Studio […]

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3 Aug
2004

Copenhagen

Here in Idaho, there are still a few cowboys. I am not one, but I do still dip snuff. I have been doing this nasty habit since I was 16, meaning that I have been dipping for over 1/2 of my life. It is time to stop for good. I am getting on the Tigger […]

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2 Aug
2004

A HIPAA Compliant CD Shredder

I guess I can understand the point of this device, but HIPAA compliant? Is HIPAA really scaring people this badly? For those of us in the IT of Healthcare, HIPAA has changed a lot of things and lead to better design patterns, frankly, but how scared is too scared? The funny part is that in […]

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30 Jul
2004

JetBrains ReSharper add-in

Matt Berther is in love with this Visual Studio add-in and having tried it several times during beta, I was glad when they released version 1. I learned about it from Matt’s blog. JetBrains has finally released version 1.0 of their fabulous ReSharper add-in. As before, I have run it for about a week and […]

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29 Jul
2004

My Buddy Actually Works

I asked my MS Buddy, Jason, about the lack of the unit testing tools for the official Beta 1 release of Whidbey and he followed up on it. Thanks, Jason. So here is the story:  The unit test components or Visual Studio are built by a separate team from the rest of the framework and studio.  The […]

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28 Jul
2004

Regression Testing a Web Site

It sounds like a simple problem. I have an ASP.Net web site that uses a DB to serve up content using a variety of skins.When a code update is deployed or a new feature is added, I want to regression test the site.  Simple, right? What I Want to Do Use a tool that crawls […]

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26 Jul
2004

First Real Ride

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I did 50 or so miles on the Tigger this evening, about 1/2 of it on dirt. Ran up to Horseshoe Bend and then east toward Placerville. Turned south up the backside of Bogus and screamed like a bat outta hell down the front. I ate 3 cruisers and a 600 crotch rocket for dinner. I […]

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