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I accidentally the code
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: Post Footer automatically generated by Add Post … Continue reading
WebApiContrib is Alive
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
Newline at end of file
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
Super Simple Versioning of Third Party Scripts
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
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Queue is Always Empty Using yield return
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. Post Footer automatically generated by Add Post Footer … Continue reading
Posted in ASP.NET MVC, LINQ
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Using AppHarbor for Continuous Integration
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
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New (to me) Applications
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
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ReSharper Easter Egg?
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
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Quirk with Invalid Git Config
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
AutoMapper Tests Made Simple
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
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