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My recent writing can be found on Medium. I have been writing about running a strong software...

Author: Matthew Manela Date: 11/07/2017

Chutzpah 4.3.0 – Web Server Mode

Chutzpah 4.3.0 is now available and its largest new feature is Web Server mode. Web Server Mode...

Author: Matthew Manela Date: 11/22/2016

Pin a work item query in VS Code

A couple weeks ago the VSTS Extension for VS Code was released. This extension adds command and...

Author: Matthew Manela Date: 05/02/2016

Automate Visual Studio Team Services with PowerShell

One of the main skills programmers have is the ability to automate the mundane. In my day to day job...

Author: Matthew Manela Date: 03/20/2016

Chutzpah 4.1 – Visual Studio Debugger Support

A week ago Chutzpah 4.1 which finally adds the ability to debug your unit tests directly from Visual...

Author: Matthew Manela Date: 09/12/2015

Chutzpah 4.0 – Batching, Inheritance and more

Chutzpah 4.0 cleans up some of the legacy baggage while adding the much requested feature of test...

Author: Matthew Manela Date: 04/08/2015

Chutzpah 3.3.0

Chutzpah 3.3.0 is now available at your usual locations. Changes Update to QUnit 1.16 Update to...

Author: Matthew Manela Date: 01/25/2015

Chutzpah is now on GitHub

Today, I moved Chutzpah from CodePlex to GitHub. I made this move for a few reasons The feature set...

Author: Matthew Manela Date: 09/15/2014

Avoiding side effects when traversing an IVsHierarchy in Visual Studio

There was a bug filed against Chutzpah reporting that Chutzpah’s Visual Studio extension was causing...

Author: Matthew Manela Date: 09/09/2014

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Author: Matthew Manela Date: 09/09/2014

Chutzpah 3.2 – A smarter approach to compilation

Chutzpah 3.2 introduces a new and improved method for supporting languages which compile to...

Author: Matthew Manela Date: 03/10/2014

Chutzpah 3.1 – Smarter test running and Jasmine 2.0

Chutzpah 3.1 has a few improvements that were originally targeted for the 3.0 release. As...

Author: Matthew Manela Date: 02/09/2014

Chutzpah 3.0: Mocha, RequireJS and more…

Chutzpah 3.0 resolves two of the most requested features: Mocha test framework and better RequireJS...

Author: Matthew Manela Date: 12/05/2013

Chutzpah and Snippet Designer now support Visual Studio 2013

I released updates for both Chutzpah (2.5.0) and Snippet Designer (1.5.0) which adds support for...

Author: Matthew Manela Date: 09/01/2013

Chutzpah 2.4.2

This release of Chutzpah contains a few bug fixes, upgraded versions of Blanket.js and TypeScript...

Author: Matthew Manela Date: 07/10/2013

Chutzpah 2.4 – Code Coverage is a go!

With the Chutzpah 2.4 release one of the most asked for features is now available: built-in code...

Author: Matthew Manela Date: 04/22/2013

Using SignalR in an ARR cluster

My team ran into an issue when deploying an application which uses SignalR on a clustered...

Author: Matthew Manela Date: 04/05/2013

Chutzpah 2.3 Released

This release contains a couple important new features and bug fixes. Chutzpah now gives you more...

Author: Matthew Manela Date: 01/13/2013

Chutzpah 2.2 with TypeScript support

This release contains a few new features most notably that Chutzpah can now work directly on...

Author: Matthew Manela Date: 10/25/2012

Quickly moving up a directory tree

I am lazy and I have been working recently on optimizing my PowerShell profile to become faster from...

Author: Matthew Manela Date: 10/05/2012

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Author: Matthew Manela Date: 09/24/2012

Chutzpah 2.1 now with CoffeeScript support

Chutzpah 2.1 is now available. This release contains a few new features but most notable is that...

Author: Matthew Manela Date: 09/08/2012

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Author: Matthew Manela Date: 09/08/2012

Chutzpah 2.0 Released

Chutzpah 2.0 is now available. This release contains many new and hopefully exciting changes. You...

Author: Matthew Manela Date: 07/13/2012

Snippet Designer now supports C++

Snippet Designer 1.4.2 is available on the Visual Studio Gallery and on CodePlex. Visual Studio 2012...

Author: Matthew Manela Date: 06/18/2012

Anatomy of the Chutzpah test adapter for VS 2012 RC

Coinciding with the release Visual Studio 2012 RC, I pushed an update of the Chutzpah test...

Author: Matthew Manela Date: 06/12/2012

Snippet Designer now supports Visual Studio 2012 RC

Snippet Designer 1.4.1 is now available on the Visual Studio Gallery and on CodePlex which adds...

Author: Matthew Manela Date: 06/09/2012

Making linking between anchors in an IFrame work in Firefox 11 and above

About a year ago I wrote the post Making linking between anchors in an IFrame work in Firefox 4 and...

Author: Matthew Manela Date: 04/30/2012

Chutzpah 1.4.0 Released

A new version of Chutzpah is now available. Grab the new bits from CodePlex and NuGet or go to the...

Author: Matthew Manela Date: 03/13/2012

Chutzpah test adapter for Visual Studio 11 Beta

Visual Studio 11 Beta was released today and one of the many cool new features is the Unit Test...

Author: Matthew Manela Date: 02/29/2012

A Monadic Pratt Parser

A while ago I read the book Beautiful Code which contains articles from several well known...

Author: Matthew Manela Date: 12/29/2011

A Monadic Pratt Parser

Introduction I recently read Beautiful Code which contains articles from several well known...

Author: Matthew Manela Date: 12/28/2011

Chutzpah 1.3.0 Released

A new version of Chutzpah is now live on Visual Studio Gallery, CodePlex and now NuGet. This release...

Author: Matthew Manela Date: 11/19/2011

Moving and renaming resource keys in a .resx file

I work on websites where we have several resource files that are localized in many languages. This...

Author: Matthew Manela Date: 11/09/2011

Chutzpah 1.2.0 Released

A new version of Chutzpah is now live on Visual Studio Gallery, CodePlex and now NuGet. This release...

Author: Matthew Manela Date: 09/11/2011

Make your website faster with RequestReduce

My co-worker Matt Wrock released an open source project on GitHub and Nuget called...

Author: Matthew Manela Date: 09/10/2011

Update on inheriting base type mappings with AutoMapper

Several months ago I wrote this post which shows an extension method for inheriting the mappings on...

Author: Matthew Manela Date: 09/02/2011

Chutzpah 1.1.0 Released

A new version of Chutzpah is now live on Visual Studio Gallery and CodePlex. This release contains...

Author: Matthew Manela Date: 08/08/2011

A combined Mercurial and Git PowerShell Prompt

A while ago I posted the code I use to create a custom PowerShell prompt to show the status of my...

Author: Matthew Manela Date: 07/15/2011

Making linking between anchors in an IFrame work in Firefox 4 and above

In Firefox 4 a security fix was added which prevents linking between anchors within an IFrame that...

Author: Matthew Manela Date: 06/30/2011

Chutzpah: A JavaScript Test Runner Released

I just released to CodePlex and the Visual Studio Gallery a new project called Chutzpah. Chutzpah is...

Author: Matthew Manela Date: 06/19/2011

Return type overloading in Haskell

Function overloading is very common in many programming languages like C# but most of the languages...

Author: Matthew Manela Date: 06/17/2011

Snippet Designer 1.4.0 Released

Snippet Designer 1.4.0 has been released. You can get it from its CodePlex page, on the Visual...

Author: Matthew Manela Date: 06/14/2011

DiffPlex 1.2 Released

I released version 1.2 of the DiffPlex library on both CodePlex and Nuget. This new version contains...

Author: Matthew Manela Date: 05/23/2011

Refactor now, not later

Imagine this situation (one I’ve been in too many times): you have been working on a piece of code...

Author: Matthew Manela Date: 05/12/2011

Regex Hero: Free online regular expression tester

A regex tester is one of those tools developers often need. I used many different ones over the...

Author: Matthew Manela Date: 05/10/2011

Converting between RTF to HTML and HTML to RTF

A while back I posted Converting RTF to HTML which showed how to convert RTF text into HTML markup...

Author: Matthew Manela Date: 04/27/2011

The problem with the EnvDTE ItemOperations.NewFile method

During my work on the latest version of the Snippet Designer I was struggling with solving an issue...

Author: Matthew Manela Date: 03/09/2011

Snippet Designer 1.3.1 Released

var addthis_product = 'wpp-252'; var addthis_config =...

Author: Matthew Manela Date: 03/04/2011

Visually view all events attached to DOM elements

I recently found this tool called Visual Event which helps you view and inspect all events attached...

Author: Matthew Manela Date: 02/25/2011

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