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I Heart ReSharper!

Posted on April 3, 2009 by Mo Khan

I’m still surprised by just how many people still aren’t using ReSharper. It’s an amazing productivity adding for Microsoft Visual Studio.  Once you’ve spent the time learning a few keyboard shortcuts you will not go back to naked studio. There … Continue reading →

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Deploying .NET Applications – Learning MSBuild and ClickOnce

Posted on March 13, 2009 by Mo Khan

I recently finished reading… Deploying .NET Applications: Learning MSBuild and ClickOnce (Expert’s Voice in .Net) I was interested in this book mainly to find an easier way to deploy ClickOnce applications via an automated build. Most of my build automation … Continue reading →

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BDD on Creatine

Posted on March 12, 2009 by Mo Khan

In an attempt to further understand BDD, I chose to revise the code from my previous post after receiving some amazing advice from two people I regard highly (Scott & JP). I should state that this is my interpretation of … Continue reading →

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BDD on Steroids

Posted on March 11, 2009 by Mo Khan

In the last couple of weeks I had a chance to sprinkle some of JP’s syntactic sugar, all over my projects. It’s amazing how much more concise my units test have become. I’ve had a couple of issues where I … Continue reading →

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Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2

Posted on March 11, 2009 by Mo Khan

I recently finished reading… Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2 I have been wanting to get in to the world of WCF for some time now, but wasn’t really sure how to get started. This book was good at explaining how … Continue reading →

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Introducing NLP

Posted on March 2, 2009 by Mo Khan

I recently finished reading… Introducing NLP: Psychological Skills for Understanding and Influencing People   I first heard about Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) while I was reading The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists. I thought that it sounded like … Continue reading →

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Object Thinking

Posted on February 12, 2009 by Mo Khan

I recently finished reading… Object Thinking by David West   As usual I fold down pages that contain paragraphs that interest me… below are a few excerpts from the book that I enjoyed! "Better people" has been recognized as the … Continue reading →

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Shortening The Feedback Loop

Posted on December 10, 2008 by Mo Khan

Thank you everyone who attended our presentation last night at the Calgary Agile Methodologies User Group. We had a tonne of fun, and hope that you took away some valuable information.    Post Footer automatically generated by Add Post Footer … Continue reading →

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Look Ma! Real Proxies…

Posted on December 3, 2008 by Mo Khan

I took some time today to pull down the source code for SvnBridge today, and man, I was blown away. I started at Program.cs and made it to line 25 Bootstrapper.Start(). From there I went on to look at the … Continue reading →

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Who do you wanna Jott? Twitter

Posted on November 10, 2008 by Mo Khan

So I recently started twittering… or tweeting. I’m not sure what the correct lingo is, so hook me up if you know. It all started a while back when James announced that he was the newest Twit. He mentioned a … Continue reading →

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