Adventures of an aspiring agile developer in a not-quite agile world
IHttpHandler and Session
As a follow-up to yesterday's post, I needed the ImageRequestHandler to retrieve data from an...
Author: Casper Date: 01/09/2007
Dynamic image retrieval with .axd
A lot of my work these days deals with images in web controls; I had an earlier post completed about...
Author: Casper Date: 01/08/2007
Happy New Year! Now back to work :)
First off, let me wish everyone a Happy New Year and the best of luck with those millions of New...
Author: Casper Date: 01/04/2007
Chess, please!
I haven't played chess in any regular capacity since high school, but it's always fun to return to...
Author: Casper Date: 12/11/2006
Sharing is good
I enjoy learning new things; for that matter I find it rewarding if I can learn something new every...
Author: Casper Date: 11/30/2006
TDD Anti-Patterns
James Carr has an amusing and enlightening post on TDD Anti-Patterns. They encompass all the key...
Author: Casper Date: 11/28/2006
We've got your diversity right here
I might be wrong, but it seems that most people still think of Microsoft Dublin as the place where...
Author: Casper Date: 11/23/2006
A small unit test primer (part two)
For some reason on the drive home yesterday, I realised there were a few more important points about...
Author: Casper Date: 11/21/2006
My adventures with enums
Like most things, it takes time to become proficient in using examples to design your code. Early...
Author: Casper Date: 11/20/2006
A small unit test primer
Some recent conversations I've had lead me to believe that not everyone is on the same page when it...
Author: Casper Date: 11/20/2006
Let's forget about 'unit tests'
"This is great! VSTS will automatically generate unit tests for my class." ... "I wrote one unit...
Author: Casper Date: 11/01/2006
Consolas and you
If this font isn't already on your system, you owe it to your eyes to install it for viewing and/or...
Author: Casper Date: 10/27/2006
Cropping in GDI+
Warning: There will be a few extremely elementary posts for anyone who's worked with ASP.NET, GDI+,...
Author: Casper Date: 10/27/2006
Back to absolute basics
It's the little things you forgot when you stop work with any technology on a regular basis. I was...
Author: Casper Date: 10/26/2006
The naked programmer
As the Naked Chef would say, "No way! It's not me, it's the food!".I've been thrown into the world...
Author: Casper Date: 10/26/2006
What's in a name?
So Peter has written the pronounciation of my name but for some reason it looked strange to me, so I...
Author: Casper Date: 10/26/2006
analyzeThis!
So after spending most of this year over in Redmond working on That Which Shall Not Be Named™, I am...
Author: Casper Date: 10/25/2006