Inlägg December 2009
2009-12-30 13:03
Great tool for creating snippets
I love the snippet support in Visual Studio. It’s so much a part of what we do that we don’t even think about it anymore. Just like Intellisense way, way back – remember the time before that?
But one thing that always has been bit messy is to create your own. And that Snippet manager – what is that? I’ve never been able to get to like it.
But there is help on the way; meet Snippet Designer. It can help you not only to create snippets from existing code, but also to manage your snippets in a nice way.
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2009-12-18 14:24
Deploying ASP.NET MVC on IIS6
OK - this seems to be a problem that many people have run into. But for IIS 6 it seems to be some additional configuration that is needed in order to get ASP.NET MVC up and running.
First you'll need to find the version of IIS. Yes, I know, it should be simple, but it's not... Here is how you do it.
Then, when you know which one, and if it's IIS6 or lower (i presume...) you can follow along nicely in this article by Gopinath - who saved my butt.
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Life of a consultant
2009-12-14 22:38
Red Beads and Limited WIP Society
I attended the second Limited WIP Society (Sweden) gathering. It’s a bunch of people that has taken liking in Kanban practices.
This evening David J Andersson joined us and he gave a very interesting presentation on Kanban teams reach CMMI 5 level, i.e. ranked as very mature. This is, apparently, not repeated by team doing other agile methods.
OK – during the second half me and Joakim Sundén presented the Red Bead Experiment. Well played it out I think would be a more appropriate word for it. It’s a game that aims to drive home the point Dr. W. Edwards Deming - “a bad system will beat a good person every time”
If you haven’t seen it before there is an excellent recording with Benjamin Mitchell and David Joyce.
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Life of a consultant
2009-12-11 10:08
Skillsmatter – so much to watch, so little time
On the SkillsMatter-site there are so many good thing to read and see that I would have to spend a month just streaming video.
Just take a look at the categories:
OK – the minute I have a few weeks to spare… yeah right!
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TDD
2009-12-04 08:15
Learning JQuery with Firebug
Got a tip from Daniel about this video, that shows an easy way to learn and understand JQuery:
With this and Selenium I cannot stand back anymore – I need to install FireFox for the first time.
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2009-12-02 15:03
Scott Guthrie in Stockholm
I’ve been attending a full day of presentations by Scott Guthrie, who seems to be involved in most things interesting at Microsoft. The output from this guy is just amazing; blogging, products, teams and thoughts… A lot.
I really looked forward to hearing him live and specifically what he had to say about ASP.NET MVC 2.
It was all good – even though the tempo in the presentation was breakneck speed. Many of the new technologies from Microsoft nowadays aims to be extensible and possible to tweek to your preferences.
From ASP.NET MVC 2 I especially like
I’m now enjoying his presentation on Silverlight 4, which will be my introduction to Silverlight…
This was a great day that learned me a lot and also made me realize what I don’t know… A lot…
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2009-12-01 07:55
Online diff tool
Found this nugget today when comparing numerous of very long SQL-strings. Yeah, yeah – I know; data access is a solved problem – but this app still got them. In spades!
And I also agree with the developer of the tool:
“Now, although pretty much every IDE (and various stand-alone products) have sophisticated diff utilities built in (like Eclipse), my favourite, I got very tired of having to create two files just to paste in fragments of code or other bits of texts just in order to perform a diff and see the differences highlighted.”
Except for the Eclipse-part maybe. The diff tool worked great and helped me a lot yesterday. And probably today… and the day after that, and the day…
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