May 2007 - Posts

Offline google reader browsing
Published 05-31-2007 2:36 PM | jokiz
Last time, gmail increased the attachment limit to 20 megabytes, now it's offline browsing of google reader feeds. I just noticed the new feature of offline reading of google reader through Google Gears (currently on beta). I previously had plans...
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Resharper 3.0 Beta is out
Published 05-31-2007 10:24 AM | jokiz
Jetbrains has just released their beta version of Resharper 3.0, download it here . Again, VB.NET guys out there, you should try Resharper since it now supports your language. Resharper 3.0 will now come into three versions (C#, VB and Full edition)....
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MbUnit 2.4 RTM is out
Published 05-25-2007 12:18 PM | jokiz
See the official announcement from Andy's blog here . You can download the bits here . Nudge to smash , try it and you'll love it.
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insufficient test code coverage -> broken build
Published 05-25-2007 10:04 AM | jokiz
i agree that incorporating code coverage criteria in your build scripts is very restrictive, but you have no choice if your team is just starting out doing tdd or writing plain automated unit tests. how can you force them to learn to write automated unit...
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aggressive applications and slickrun
Published 05-23-2007 4:35 PM | jokiz
once in a while, i still experience slickrun battling with another window on which of them should be activated (this has been a long outstanding bug of slickrun). my usual workaround is to lock my system (Win+L) then unlock it. slickrun behaves as normal...
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Legacy Code
Published 05-23-2007 1:10 PM | jokiz
Our boss asked us developers for our preferred developer books and we submitted our wishlists, weeks later they ordered all 20+ of them, whoa! all the books that we wished for, nice! I'm currently browsing through Michael Feathers' Working Effectively...
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control+enter != page break in MS Outlook
Published 05-22-2007 3:54 PM | jokiz
i was composing a message for a client when i pasted a table and it was pasted beside another table. i wanted to format the second table to another line so i thought of including a page break on top of it. in winword, the shortcut key for insert pagebreak...
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NHibernate, unicodes and index
Published 05-11-2007 4:06 PM | jokiz
My boss is optimizing one of our previous projects. He was specifically looking at the queries used by NHibernate and he noticed that the generated sp_executesql queries are using nvarchar parameters. The query was just a filter for just one column (Position...
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"Subscript out of range" error when enumerating pagebreaks in Excel
Published 05-08-2007 3:45 PM | jokiz
I had an issue yesterday with my previous Excel VBA project where the user is experiencing the very common: Run-time error '9': Subscript out of range Surprisingly, i found out that the said exception was being raised on a foreach construct for...
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Closing shortcuts
Published 05-07-2007 4:29 PM | jokiz
if you're a keyboard junkie, you might have mistaken to close that Visual Studio Tool Window (resharper's find usage is a prime candidate) with an Alt+F4 keystroke and when you don't have any changes to save, your slow VS which took you almost...
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Resharper's TODO Explorer
Published 05-07-2007 3:52 PM | jokiz
When i saw the changes for Resharper 3.0 , I thought, nahh I'll pass, most features are just the vb support that they have promised. I missed out the new TODO Explorer , which is why i have just installed it in my development machine. Eversince i...
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NHibernate 1.2 is out
Published 05-04-2007 4:48 PM | jokiz
NHibernate 1.2 whose core functionality is support for generics is now available. I immediately downloaded the binaries and test it out on my test project at work (for the first time). I did some modifications (basically changing from IList, ISet to their...
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