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Friday, June 29, 2007 3:32 AM

Cycling information...

For a while I've been toying with the idea of writing more about cycling than I have in the past - as I seem to have developed a passion for the sport - but too much of any one thing isn't good in a blog (as evidenced by my earnest desire to avoid to
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Thursday, June 28, 2007 9:48 AM

YAGNI and unit tests...

Thanks for your comments. I decided to go ahead and write the unit tests for that layer, both because I knew what not writing them would be like, and I wanted to play with wrapping/mocking a system service. I also decided - as some of you commented -
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007 10:03 AM

Does YAGNI ever apply to tests?

I've been writing a small utility to help us do some configuration setup for testing. It needs to walk a directory structure, find all instances of a specific xml file, and then make some modifications to the file. I TDD'd the class that does the XML
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Monday, June 25, 2007 1:42 PM

Some alternative development methodologies...

If scrum isn't to your liking, here are a few alternate methodologies that you might consider...
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Friday, June 22, 2007 11:52 AM

Not sure what I think of this

What would Freddie think about this ? You'll need to go to about :45 seconds in on the video...
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Friday, June 22, 2007 11:48 AM

Wood 6-bit adder

Wood 6-bit adder
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Wednesday, June 20, 2007 12:17 PM

Lost Column #2: Unsafe Image Processing

(circa November 15, 2001) I think this column stands up pretty well without caveat. I should note that I wrapped the image class to provide nicer pixel-based access in a class you can find here . I suggest basing your code on that rather than what I wrote
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Tuesday, June 19, 2007 1:07 PM

A crime against consumers...

I was reading a blog today, and came across an inline ad: Which got me to thinking... When I was growing up, triscuits were not a popular snack food. My sisters and I were devotees of the So much so, that when we went on family trips, one of us would
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Tuesday, June 19, 2007 10:19 AM

Robot Chicken Star Wars

Robot Chicken Star Wars From BA
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Friday, June 15, 2007 4:03 PM

To m_ or no to m_, that is the question...

I apologize for shocking your system by posting more than once a month - there are reasons for that, but I unfortunately can't get into them right now - but Keith added an interesting comment to my last post. He said: Side Note: a bit disturbing you're
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Friday, June 15, 2007 10:58 AM

The problem with intellisense

Today I was working with some sample code, and I came across a misspelling. Not a big deal - there was a field that was named "m_postion" rather than "m_position". But that got me thinking... In the past, that sort of thing wouldn't have happened. You
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Friday, June 15, 2007 9:56 AM

Nice Ad for VS

Why debugging matters
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Wednesday, June 06, 2007 12:30 PM

I apologize

Desktop Tower Defense
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Tuesday, June 05, 2007 9:10 PM

App Domains and dynamic loading (the lost columns)

As promised, I'm going to start republishing some of my columns that were eaten by MSDN. I spent some time reading this one and deciding whether I would re-write it so that it was, like, correct. But it became clear that I didn't have a lot of enthusiasm
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Friday, June 01, 2007 12:16 PM

Friday fun

Man, but that's cool. CNN article Website with gallery
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