Author Archives: Chris Missal

About Chris Missal

Oh hey, I'm a Senior Consultant for Headspring in Austin, TX. I've been working in software for a little over 5 years and really, really love it. I'm mostly in the Microsoft world, but enjoy building computer things of all sorts (to be vague). When I'm not slinging code, I'm probably out and about slinging discs, bowling balls, or beers with friends.

I accidentally the code

Posted on April 12, 2012 by Chris Missal

I’m not going to sit back and let Ryan slip all the memes into Los Techies. After a slip up earlier today… here’s something that I couldn’t help but say inside my head:

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WebApiContrib is Alive

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Chris Missal

Just a heads up for anybody that hasn’t seen it, but WebApiContrib (the community contributions to ASP.NET’s new Web API framework) is alive and kicking! Pedro Reys wrote up an excellent introduction about what’s going on with the project(s), where … Continue reading →

Posted in ASP.NET Web API | Tagged , , | 1 Comment

Newline at end of file

Posted on March 23, 2012 by Chris Missal

This is just me asking a question in public and doing as little research on the subject as possible, but why wouldn’t you want a newline character at the end of a file? There are several reasons why I can … Continue reading →

Posted in Rant | Tagged | 9 Comments

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 | 3 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