Blog Archive 2019 Spend the Effort to Make Your Tests Better Documentation May 12th JavaScript - Refactoring too many function params May 11th 2018 Using script=module to Quicky Spike Some Mocha Tests Aug 3rd How to JSON.stringify and Order Dictionary Result Aug 1st Should I Use JavaScript Single (') or Double (") Quotes? Mar 15th 2017 How to Access Two Mac Accounts at the Same Time Oct 9th How to block git commit if webpack bundle has changed Jun 1st How to Download and Convert an Image to Base64 Data Url Feb 26th Porting a Large JSPM BabelJS project to Typescript Feb 19th 2016 TVJS TVHelpers DirectionalNavigation and Adapting/Hacking some WinJS Focus Management Dec 19th Slightly modified “CD” Command for Powershell: Even better dot.dot.dot.dot... Nov 14th Better Compact JIRA Board U.I. Sep 30th How to Update a Single Running docker-compose Container Sep 8th Run Multiple Docker Environments (qa, stage, prod) from the Same docker-compose File. Jul 26th Easily simulate slow async calls using JavaScript async/await Jul 8th One Programmers Letter to his Wife Jun 28th Reusable React Component with Overridable Inline CSS Styles Jun 21st Strange error on docker-compose up: oci runtime error: exec format error May 27th How to Get Environment Variables Passed Through docker-compose to the Containers May 25th Configuring Git to Use Different Name and Email Depending on Folder Context May 25th How NOT to Start Asynchronous Communication May 20th Easily Convert CSS to React Inline Styles Apr 20th Slightly modified “CD” Command for Powershell: Now with dot.dot.dot.dot... Apr 10th Oops - how a simple bit of automation put NuGet services on edge... Mar 30th Developer Friendly React Component Errors Jan 30th Habit of a Solid Developer - Part 9 - Rapid Feedback Jan 30th 2015 Habit of a Solid Developer - Part 8 - Podcasts Nov 23rd Testing Asynchronous Code with MochaJS and ES7 async/await Nov 11th Habit of a Solid Developer - Part 7 - Changes Should be Taken with Baby Steps Nov 6th How to Base64 and save a binary audio file to local storage and play it back in the browser Nov 2nd Integrate WinJS.Navigation with the Browser's History Oct 31st Habit of a Solid Developer - Part 6 - Dig a Little Deeper Oct 23rd Red - Possibly the Most Important Step in Red, Green, Refactor Oct 9th In App Unit test example with JSPM, React, WinJS and Mocha Oct 8th Habit of a Solid Developer - Part 5 - Update or Add Documentation while Reading Code Oct 1st Habit of a Solid Developer - Part 4 - Git Dance Sep 29th tvOS Simulator Remote - Keyboard Shortcuts/Replacement Sep 15th Habit of a Solid Developer - Part 3 - Self Prescribed Code Reviews Sep 13th Habit of a Solid Developer - Part 2 - Automatically Enforce Project Conventions Sep 8th JSMP/SystemJS Starter Plunker Sep 8th Browser only MochaJS tests using SystemJS Sep 4th Habit of a Solid Developer - Part 1 - Introduction Aug 22nd Hello World with TypeScript and JSX Aug 18th Debugging iOS AutoLayout Issues Jun 1st Running in-app mocha tests within WinJS May 23rd Look at where DefinitelyTyped is Now Apr 12th Starting to build an Xbox One Podcast Player Mar 16th In-App Unit Tests Mar 6th Build Command with Auditory Feedback Feb 28th Mac Equivalent of the Windows Registry - ish Feb 22nd Fail Fast With iOS Images Feb 12th How to Diff Two Xcode Targets Feb 10th How to Remove Files in Git that Should Have Been Ignored Feb 9th Approval Tests - Command Line Tool (CLI) Feb 7th Approval Tests - Overview Jan 30th Setting Jenkins up to run XCTool and Xcode Simulator Tests Jan 27th How to Migrate a Jenkins Job to New Jenkins Server Jan 26th Resgrid is a BizSpark Featured Startup Jan 14th How to install clang-format and formatting Objective-C files Jan 13th Custom Static Blog Generator - No Longer Using Octopress Jan 3rd 2014 Use different Git Diff Tools Per File Extension Dec 29th Introducing SkypeIt - Command Line Skype Phone Calls Dec 24th Thoughts on Working Remotely from Home Dec 13th One of the Simplest Things You can do to Improve Email Communication Nov 30th Updating git branches. Jun 3rd Introducing CommandAllThings May 24th How to compile plain *.js (JavaScript) files with the TypeScript Compiler May 18th Migrating from BlogSpot to Octopress - Part 9 - What's left? Apr 19th Migrating from BlogSpot to Octopress - Part 8 - Redirect Atom/RSS in FeedBurner Apr 18th Migrating from BlogSpot to Octopress - Part 7 - Setup a Custom Domain Apr 17th Migrating from BlogSpot to Octopress - Part 6 - 301 Redirect Old Posts to New Location Apr 16th Migrating from BlogSpot to Octopress - Part 5 - Fix Links Apr 16th Migrating from BlogSpot to Octopress - Part 4 - Import Content into Octopress Apr 15th Migrating from BlogSpot to Octopress - Part 3 - Export BlogSpot Content Apr 14th Migrating from BlogSpot to Octopress - Part 2 - Setup Octopress Apr 13th Migrating from BlogSpot to Octopress - Part 1 - Introduction Apr 12th Infinite Scrolling UICollectionView with Asyncronously Loading Mar 15th rake, psake, grunt, gulp, jake, make, cake, brunch, ant, bash, maven, or fabric. as long as you putOnAHelmet Mar 1st Segregate your code commits into tiny topical changes. Feb 17th 2013 Format your .Net exceptions to see the StackTrace. Dec 18th Leave yourself a breadcrumb for tomorrow. Dec 5th Convert an existing WinJS app to use TypeScript Nov 29th Introducing ToTypeScriptD - Automatic TypeScript Definition files for C++/CX or .Net assemblies Oct 31st TypeScript Presentation at the Northern Nevada Software Developers Group (NNSDG) Aug 31st Authentication error connecting to Git on TFS Jun 20th Developer humor May 9th RichEditBox gives UnauthorizedAccessException (Access is denied) error when SetText called. Mar 19th Windows 8 Share Charm Data Inspector Mar 12th Windows 8 Hackathon: Good for participants. Bad for Microsoft. Mar 7th DefinitelyTyped TypeScript definitions now on NuGet Feb 24th How do I undo a bad rebase in Git? Feb 23rd It's Markdown, no, PowerShell. Wait its Markdown formatted PowerShell. Feb 12th Testacular cannot find Chrome on windows. Jan 22nd 2012 Easily set Visual Studio keyboard bindings with the Nuget Package Manager Console Dec 6th More than slightly modified “CD” command for PowerShell Nov 1st PowerShell Presentation at the Northern Nevada Software Dev Group. Oct 25th TFS bisect the manual way (When was that bug introduced?) Oct 19th NuGet Project Uncovered: SpecificationExtensions.[MSTest | NUnit | Xunit] Feb 22nd NuGet Project Uncovered: EventAggregator.Net Feb 21st NuGet Project Uncovered: DumpToText Feb 20th NuGet Project Uncovered: Nancy Feb 19th NuGet Project Uncovered: Extended.Wpf.Toolkit Feb 18th NuGet Project Uncovered: TranslatorService.Speech Feb 17th NuGet Project Uncovered: JsValidator Feb 16th NuGet Project Uncovered: FastMember Feb 15th NuGet Project Uncovered: FakeO Feb 14th NuGet Project Uncovered: NaturalSpec Feb 13th NuGet Project Uncovered: SpecsFor Feb 12th NuGet Project Uncovered: Disruptor-net Feb 11th NuGet Project Uncovered: Nukito Feb 10th NuGet Project Uncovered: StudioShell Feb 9th NuGet Project Uncovered: AboditNLP Feb 8th NuGet Project Uncovered: Northwind.Db Feb 7th NuGet Project Uncovered: Deleporter Feb 6th NuGet Project Uncovered: DynamicXaml Feb 5th NuGet Project Uncovered: IntX Feb 3rd NuGet Project Uncovered: Burro Feb 2nd NuGet Project Uncovered: Chronic Feb 1st NuGet Project Uncovered: Enum Metadata Library Jan 31st NuGet Project Uncovered: VerifyArgs Jan 30th NuGet Project Uncovered: Guard Jan 29th NuGet Project Uncovered: NSpec Jan 28th NuGet Project Uncovered: Stimpack Jan 27th NuGet Project Uncovered: Anna Jan 26th NuGet Project Uncovered: NFeature Jan 25th NuGet Project Uncovered: xizzle Jan 24th NuGet Project Uncovered: PineCone Jan 23rd NuGet Project Uncovered: An Introduction to the Series Jan 22nd You are responsible for making that feature work. Write a test. Just do it… Jan 6th 2011 StatLight v1.6 is Out Dec 31st Excited to Announce My New Career Opportunity Oct 22nd Chocolatey - The free and open source windows app store. Oct 5th What’s happening on the NuGet feed (leveraging OData in an RSS reader) Sep 27th Powershell Text-To-Speech and fun with a 4yr old. Aug 31st Slightly modified “CD” Command for Powershell Jul 16th StatLight 1.4 and almost 1.5 Jul 14th Git on Windows: Creating a network shared central repository. Jun 18th Using VSDBCMD to deploy an Entity Framework (EF) CodeFirst (or any other) database to AppHarbor Apr 13th Dynamically load embedded assemblies – because ILMerge appeared to be out. Apr 2nd Bookmark to inject FireBug Light into Internet Explorer. Jan 9th 2010 StatLight release (V1.2 & V1.3) Dec 14th Duplicate DOM elements with the same ID Dec 9th PowerShell url checker (Check if a list of url’s is valid) Nov 10th OData’s DataServiceQuery and removing the .Expand(“MagicStrings”) –Part II Oct 17th OData’s DataServiceQuery and removing the .Expand(“MagicStrings”) Sep 21st StatLight V1.0 & V1.1 Released (Silverlight Testing Automation Tool) May 30th Silverlight – DataBind to an Anonymous type (Who knew?) May 22nd Silverlight Profiling PowerShell helper. May 15th Diffing tool feature request Mar 21st PowerShell – background task that speaks to me Feb 15th C# 4.0 Optional Parameters – Exploration. Jan 28th Networking Brain Fart. Jan 21st Unity/Moq - AutoMocker or AutoMockingContainer Jan 3rd 2009 Powershell: Load assembly without locking file. Dec 22nd StatLight – Goes Open Source Dec 10th Go to Definition Tip with the C# ‘var’ keyword Dec 1st PDC 2009 – (Talking about Win7 User Experience) Nov 23rd Enum conversion. Why Oh Why? Nov 14th Massive Search & Replace Among Files Checked-in to TFS Nov 7th Integration Test Brought to you by Powershell & NUnit – with a Little Specification Syntax for Flavoring Oct 25th Invited to join the bloggers over at ElegantCode Oct 21st New Windows 7 Taskbar theme Oct 14th StatLight (Silverlight Test Automation Tool) V0.8 Released Oct 7th PowerShell – Compiling with csc.exe – more of a headache that it should have been. It is possible… Sep 30th How do I get UISpy.exe on my Windows 7 Developer Machine? Sep 15th Don’t forget what’s happening behind the syntactic sugar. (C# events) Aug 26th Development Environment Merge/Compare Tools Setup in Visual Studio/TFS Aug 13th Branch-Per-Feature with Team Foundation Server (TFS) – Part 3 – Lessons Learned Aug 12th Branch-Per-Feature with Team Foundation Server (TFS) – Part 2 – Kanban Stages… Aug 6th Branch-Per-Feature with Team Foundation Server (TFS) – Part 1 – How we got here… Aug 6th Live Messenger Disconnected Prompt (Fail) Jul 11th C# (checked) keyword – Learn something new every day Jun 26th Silverlight Unity & Moq backed AutoMocker Jun 19th StatLight – V0.5 released! May 11th Console Icon Swapping – Just for fun… May 9th To be checked in or not! Apr 24th Potentially SERIOUS bug. -- SQL Server 2008 Management Studio Apr 22nd T4 replacement for “Add Service Reference” Apr 10th Introducing StatLight (Silverlight Testing Automation Tool) Apr 7th Silverlight DataGrid NOT sorting when binding to IEnumerable<T> Mar 25th Nate's DelegateFactory to bypass reflection for reading properties. (speed up i4o) Mar 9th Moq 3.0 released (With Full Silverlight Support) Feb 22nd xUnit (Light) for Silverlight Feb 8th (-2) for [Fluent] Specification Extensions Feb 7th (+1) for [Fluent] Specification Extensions Feb 6th Fluent Specification Extensions Feb 4th Silverlight AutoMocker with Unity container and Moq Jan 23rd Silverlight Moq AutoMocker Teaser... Jan 4th Castle.DynamicProxy2 now ported to Silverlight!!! Jan 4th What do when Silverlight is missing some Base Class Library (BCL) functionality? Jan 2nd 2008 i4o: IndexSpecification<T> for the IndexableCollection<T> Dec 25th i4o: Update (Index for Objects) Dec 20th Leverage Live Mesh to sync Windows Live Writer blog drafts between and multiple computers. Dec 18th I can't stand mass mailings... (Especially when you can't turn them off) Dec 18th T4 Text Templating in Silverlight (Thanks Oleg Sych!) Dec 13th i4o & Silverlight Unit Tests (A little more work than the i4o library) Dec 7th Is my HSA trying to tell me something? Dec 5th i4o with Silverlight (Compiles first try) Dec 2nd Db4o with System.Transactions.TransactionScope Nov 30th WCF - Silverlight - Default constructor not called?? Nov 24th unbound TFS project - how do I get the offline changes checked in? Oct 1st How can C# variable have an @ sign in front of it? Sep 13th WCF Service Proxy inside Silverlight with a generic type Sep 13th UnitDriven's UI Gets a Minor Makeover Aug 30th How best to expose a value that could throw an error? May 14th BinarySearchOrDefault() Apr 13th Timing Debug Code Using Lambda's Apr 11th
rake, psake, grunt, gulp, jake, make, cake, brunch, ant, bash, maven, or fabric. as long as you putOnAHelmet Mar 1st
Introducing ToTypeScriptD - Automatic TypeScript Definition files for C++/CX or .Net assemblies Oct 31st
Using VSDBCMD to deploy an Entity Framework (EF) CodeFirst (or any other) database to AppHarbor Apr 13th
Integration Test Brought to you by Powershell & NUnit – with a Little Specification Syntax for Flavoring Oct 25th
PowerShell – Compiling with csc.exe – more of a headache that it should have been. It is possible… Sep 30th