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.

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

Code Review with Git Patches and Outlook via PowerShell

Posted on December 6, 2010 by Keith Dahlby

In the spirit of “simplest thing that works,” my team has a rather low-fidelity approach to code reviews: patch files and e-mail. Nothing fancy, but we find it works rather well. It’s even easier thanks to git format-patch, which lets … Continue reading →

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Better git-svn Through Aliases: git up & git dci

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Keith Dahlby

I’ve been using git-svn for almost a year now, and have settled on a low-friction workflow that has been working really well. First, a few notes about how I work with Git and Subversion… For the most part, we avoid … Continue reading →

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Git-Achievements in PowerShell

Posted on October 5, 2010 by Keith Dahlby

Reading through Jason’s post on using Git-Achievements with msysGit, I couldn’t help but get it working with PowerShell. The result is a single PowerShell script added to my Git-Achievements repository, tagged here on the off chance I decided to upload … Continue reading →

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msysGit error setting certificate verify locations

Posted on September 26, 2010 by Keith Dahlby

I had never had any problems using msysGit with SSL until last night, when I came across the following error: $ git pull Password: error: error setting certificate verify locations: CAfile: /bin/curl-ca-bundle.crt CApath: none while accessing https://dahlbyk@github.com/dahlbyk/posh-git.git/info/refs fatal: HTTP request … Continue reading →

Posted in git, msysgit | 7 Comments

posh-git Release v0.2

Posted on August 28, 2010 by Keith Dahlby

I just tagged the v0.2 release of posh-git, which you can download here. This is the last release supporing msysgit 1.6.5 and 1.7.0. In this release… PowerShell Module Thanks to a contribution from David Muhundro, posh-git now exposes its functions … Continue reading →

Posted in git, posh-git, powershell | 2 Comments

St. Louis Day of .NET – August 20-21, 2010

Posted on July 22, 2010 by Keith Dahlby

One of my favorite developer events last year was St. Louis Day of .NET. Not only were the facilities (Ameristar Casino) top-notch, but there were a ton of great sessions and I got to pick the brains of some really … Continue reading →

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"Refactoring" Notes

Posted on July 9, 2010 by Keith Dahlby

I’m not going to bother with a review of Martin Fowler‘s Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code. It’s good enough that its catalog, available in expanded form online, now provides the definitive vocabulary shared by dozens of refactoring tools … Continue reading →

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Unit Testing [Serializable]

Posted on May 20, 2010 by Keith Dahlby

A common struggle with unit testing is figuring when to just assume somebody else’s code works. One such example is serializability: for simple classes, it should “just work” so we shouldn’t need to write a unit test for each of … Continue reading →

Posted in NUnit, Serializable, testing | 3 Comments