Super Simple Versioning of Third Party Scripts

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Chris Missal

My attention span decreases every day too… tl;dr – Scroll to bottom of page for a neat code example… Working on a large eCommerce web site gives me the “privilege” of working with other companies that integrate with us via … Continue reading →

Posted in Continuous Improvement, JavaScript | 4 Comments

Queue is Always Empty Using yield return

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Chris Missal

I ran into an issue in a C# application the other day. Thankfully I figured out what was going wrong right away, but it could have turned into a big headache potentially.

Posted in ASP.NET MVC, LINQ | 2 Comments

Using AppHarbor for Continuous Integration

Posted on March 12, 2011 by Chris Missal

I thought it would be interesting to use AppHarbor as a quick way to get some code with tests under a continuous integration environment. Along with this, if I could also use the AppHarbor deployed web site to serve that … Continue reading →

Posted in AppHarbor, Continuous Integration, Deployment, git | 2 Comments

New (to me) Applications

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Chris Missal

Recently, I’ve been using some new applications on which I should share some thoughts. LinqPad I won a copy of this at our local .Net Users Group, CRineta, and it has been great since I started using it! If I … Continue reading →

Posted in Favorites, Personal | 8 Comments

ReSharper Easter Egg?

Posted on March 6, 2011 by Chris Missal

A while ago, I was looking through some C# code and came across something fun that was being added by ReSharper. In comments, the words “gold” and “silver” are underlined with that color. I don’t know if this is just … Continue reading →

Posted in For Fun, Reading Code | 10 Comments

Quirk with Invalid Git Config

Posted on December 23, 2010 by Chris Missal

I bumped into what seems like a weird quirk with one of my git config files today. A bad value was reported: error: Malformed value for branch.autosetuprebasefatal: bad config file line 18 in .git/config   In the image, you’ll notice … Continue reading →

Posted in git | 1 Comment

AutoMapper Tests Made Simple

Posted on December 22, 2010 by Chris Missal

I work primarily on a C# ASP.NET MVC application that deals with many other systems which seem to dish out strings all over the place. Hence the need for something like AutoMapper. When converting this data into objects or enumerations, … Continue reading →

Posted in AutoMapper, DRY, NUnit, Testing | Leave a comment

Comments are the Devil

Posted on August 18, 2010 by Chris Missal

I recently read Chris Coyier’s article entitled Show Markup in CSS Comments. I was actually a bit angry that so many responses praised this and so few were turned off from the idea. I appreciate the idea of making things … Continue reading →

Posted in Comments, CSS, Design, DRY | 4 Comments

Debug It!

Posted on May 13, 2010 by Chris Missal

If there’s one thing I like about programming computers, it’s the ability to tell a machine exactly what to do. –insert Skynet reference here– With that said, I wanted to learn some more tips, tricks and techniques to figure out … Continue reading →

Posted in Best Practices, Book Review, Development, Testing | 2 Comments

Working With Assertions Made on Arguments in Rhino Mocks

Posted on March 18, 2010 by Chris Missal

  Today when modifying what we call an “order notifier” (essentially observers that are notified when an order is placed), I was having trouble figuring out why my test was failing. The project is written in C# and this test … Continue reading →

Posted in Best Practices, NUnit, RhinoMocks, Testing | 7 Comments