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Resharper 4.0

ReSharper 4.0 has just hit beta! I have been using ReSharper for about a year now, and it is an awesome productivity boost. You can really concentrate on writing code, and let ReSharper take care of the little stuff, as well as some pretty major refactoring Read More
posted Monday, June 02, 2008 4:41 PM by Geoff | (Comments Off)
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Pimp your IDE

This post has an awesome list of Visual Studio IDE enhancements! Just sticking it here for the BAS. Read More
posted Wednesday, May 14, 2008 11:51 AM by Geoff | (Comments Off)
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Coding standards

I'm just reading Pete Goodliffe's Code Craft. I'm only at the beginning of the book and he's devoted a chapter to coding standards, reinforcing my own belief that good code presentation goes a long way towards good code. One of the things he neglects, Read More
posted Monday, March 10, 2008 4:34 PM by Geoff | (Comments Off)
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The delivery disparity

I have been thinking about why managers (or those who are in charge of projects - whatever they may be called) have such trouble with the concept of the "extra" work involved in test driven development, and I think I've figured it out. There's a disparity Read More
posted Saturday, March 01, 2008 3:58 PM by Geoff | (Comments Off)
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Save yourself the headache

I've been meticulously crafting a post about setting up a Subversion server running on Apache step by step and have been banging my head against brick walls on your behalf, but pressure to get a working web hosted Subversion repository up and running Read More
posted Wednesday, January 09, 2008 10:49 AM by Geoff | (Comments Off)
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Shortcut keys for message boxes are evil

I'm sure everyone has at some stage been typing in an email message or word document (or for the weirdos - word perfect) and realised that something's just flashed on the screen but you missed it. It might have said something like "Your computer is about Read More
posted Tuesday, November 27, 2007 11:34 AM by Geoff | (Comments Off)
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Some great domain driven design articles

There's some great stuff in here about DDD. I especially like the idea of a UI mapper. http://steve.emxsoftware.com/Domain+Driven+Design/ Read More
posted Thursday, October 25, 2007 2:00 PM by Geoff | (Comments Off)
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Data validation myth

This has been bugging me for a while now, and it finally came to me last week when I had to have this discussion with a couple of workmates and a client. Data validation isn't all it's cracked up to be. This client has been having some terrible trouble Read More
posted Sunday, June 10, 2007 9:31 PM by Geoff | (Comments Off)
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WWF templates for XAML only workflows

A little something from Matt Milner to help with creating XAML only workflows. There's a couple of templates you can download from here that will help. BAS entry. Read More
posted Wednesday, May 23, 2007 7:33 AM by Geoff | (Comments Off)
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WWF and WCF

I've decided to seriously commit some time to learning these technologies. I've casually glanced at them and never really worried about them. Until now. Now I have a real reason to want to use them, so I'm going to put an effort into it. I've just had Read More
posted Tuesday, February 13, 2007 9:46 AM by Geoff | (Comments Off)
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