I just came across this post from Kevin Lim about a cool new tool for the (Apple-based) Safari browser called SafariStand. A bit like HistoryHound, this plug-in allows you to quickly search your browser history, review it as thumbnails, and has a killer, iTunes-style cover-flow view of your history called History Flow: Like Kevin, I’m …
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Spa 2008 (Day 1.5)
So I got to SPA yesterday afternoon, but this is my first day proper. The sessions are longer than at other conferences I’ve been to, which allows for more depth. I’ve been to three today: – Code Debt (Workshop) – Is Software Practice Advancing? (Panel Discussion) – Real Options (Workshop) The evening is ensuing with …
Markdown Posts Not Appearing in WordPress Homepage?
Hmph. I just discovered Markdown which makes a great partner to the TextMate Blogging Bundle, but my recent markdown-formatted posts don’t seem to be appearing on the homepage of my blog… Anyone know what’s going on?
TFS and Renames
Does it really have to suck quite this badly? I have a trunk branch and a stable branch. When I want to promote a cut of code from trunk to stable, I use ‘merge’, and for every single file in every single folder that’s been renamed in trunk, I have to fucking well confirm, with …
Avoid Spaghetti Execution with the Judicious use of Inline Scripting
Rob Conery has kicked up a bit of a stink posting about the use of inline scripting in modern ASP.NET apps. I may post more on this subject when I have time, but I had to just weigh in with my support for disciplined use of this technique, which can save you hundreds of pointless …
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Generics and NMock
Maybe NMock supports this, but I can’t see how. [Update 20/10/2007 – of course it does! See the comments for Aybars and Rob’s solution.] Let’s say I have a dependency of my SUT (system under test). That dependency looks like: public interface IDatabase { void Get<TTypeToFetch> (); } Now in my test, I want to …
Safety in Numbers
How important is it to measure how long something took? Well, so the received wisdom goes, by comparing how long it took you to complete your a task against the estimate you made before starting it, you get an idea of how good your estimate was. So far, so good. But what if your estimate …
Printing Your Todo.txt Lists to Index Cards at the Command Line
Like a few other people, I’m over kGTD. In the first flushes of my infatuation with the way of GTD she was good to me, showed me a few tricks I’d never seen before. We had some good times, syncing away. But my iCal started to fill up with billions of pointles calendars, my projects …
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Web-Based Backup… Via a Trickle
A project I’ve been meaning to do for some time is set up a backup of the crucial folders on my home server to somewhere on the web. Preferably somewhere free, like my existing dreamhost space. What I didn’t really consider is… and I bet you’ve already guessed it, dear reader: the piddly-poor upload speed …
SSH on Cygwin
I’m following Gina Trapani’s outstanding tutorials on lifehacker to get me some of that unix command-line joy on the rusty old windows box in the corner. Note to other linux-naive cygwin users out there. If you want to install the ssh command, look for the package called ‘openssh’. No amount of staring at the packages …