Author Archives: Keith Dahlby

About Keith Dahlby

I'm a .NET developer, Git enthusiast and language geek from Cedar Rapids, IA. I work as a software guru at J&P Cycles and studied Human-Computer Interaction at Iowa State University.

posh-git v0.4

Posted on May 7, 2012 by Keith Dahlby

I figure a year between releases is plenty, so I’ve tagged a v0.4 release of posh-git. Really the notion of versions for a bunch of scripts on which noone depends seems a bit silly…if a feature seems to be missing, … Continue reading →

Posted in git, posh-git, powershell | 1 Comment

posh-git on Herding Code

Posted on January 29, 2012 by Keith Dahlby

Earlier this month I had the opportunity to record an episode of Herding Code with GitHubbers Paul Betts and Phil Haack on the state of Git for Windows: Herding Code 132. Topics included discussions on why Git hates developers and … Continue reading →

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Los Techies at CodeMash 2.0.1.2

Posted on October 24, 2011 by Keith Dahlby

Every January a swarm of geeks descend on the Kalahari Resort in Sandusky, OH for CodeMash, a top-notch cross-platform, family-friendly developer conference. This year’s event features an impressive session list including presentations by Scott Hanselman, Jon Skeet, Glenn Block of … Continue reading →

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Git Beyond the D in DVCS

Posted on October 14, 2011 by Keith Dahlby

Jimmy’s post is a nice reminder of the advantages of a distributed version control system. But having ramped up on Git primarily through git-svn, I thought it would be worth enumerating some of the advantages I’ve found just in my … Continue reading →

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Allowing a Windows Service to Interact with Desktop without LocalSystem

Posted on August 13, 2011 by Keith Dahlby

One of the biggest roadblocks with getting automated browser tests (we use WatiN) running in a Windows Continuous Integration environment is figuring out how to let the build server interact with the desktop. Typically there have been two options: Don’t … Continue reading →

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posh-git Release v0.3

Posted on April 6, 2011 by Keith Dahlby

On a whim, I’ve decided to tag a v0.3 release of posh-git (which has been stable for a few months now). In this release… Installer Previously the setup process for posh-git was undefined. Daniel Hoelbling was kind enough to put … Continue reading →

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Windows Git Tip: Hide ^M (Carriage Return) in Diff

Posted on April 6, 2011 by Keith Dahlby

A common point of confusion when getting started with Git on Windows is line endings, with Windows still using CR+LF while every other modern OS uses LF only. Git provides three ways to deal with this discrepancy, as described in … Continue reading →

Posted in git, msysgit | 11 Comments

F# + Razor View Engine = FSRazor

Posted on February 7, 2011 by Keith Dahlby

Last month InfoQ posted some info from the ASP.NET team about using F# with the new Razor view engine. It seemed like it should be pretty simple, so I thought I’d give it a shot. My (very rough) progress so … Continue reading →

Posted in asp.net mvc, F#, fsharp, fsrazor, mvc 3, razor | 5 Comments

Red Gate should have said…

Posted on February 4, 2011 by Keith Dahlby

Red Gate Software’s recent open letter to the .NET community has caused a bit of a stir. Here’s an alternate version that may have gone over better… In August 2008, Red Gate took over stewardship of .NET Reflector, one of … Continue reading →

Posted in red-gate, reflector | 11 Comments

RenderAction with ASP.NET MVC 3 Sessionless Controllers

Posted on December 6, 2010 by Keith Dahlby

One of the new features of ASP.NET MVC 3 is a controller-level attribute to control the availability of session state. In the RC the attribute, which lives in the System.Web.SessionState namespace, is [ControllerSessionState]; for RTM ScottGu says it will be … Continue reading →

Posted in asp.net mvc, ControllerSessionState, ControllerSessionStateAttribute, mvc 3, RenderAction, SessionStateAttribute | 1 Comment