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Reload All the Things! 30 May 2013 | 09:44 pm
In Visual Studio, how many times a day must I click the Reload All button? Switching between many branches a day, this has definitely worsened with the increased usage of git. Apparently the git + VS ...
It's been a while... 24 Jun 2012 | 11:39 pm
Hello friends! It's been a while, but I've been busy! Since you last heard from me I have switched gigs (still a .NET shop), switched locations (Cambridge!) and started a metal band: Vrawsche. In the...
Multiple web.config Files for each Build Configuration 7 Nov 2010 | 04:40 am
This is a neat trick that you can use if you're not using Visual Studio 2010 yet. It allows you to have multiple web.config files for each type of build configuration that your project has. No longer ...
Value Type and Reference Type Analogy [Beginning] 1 Mar 2010 | 03:39 am
I'm going to start a series of posts tagged [Beginning], to try and help new programmers, or anyone with an interest in programming understand concepts using real-world examples. The first in this se...
Generics and Activator.CreateInstance One-Liner 29 Jan 2010 | 04:10 pm
Here's a quick little one-liner I use all the time. It will create a concrete instance that implements 'I' interface. This has a string as a parameter, but there are lots of other possibilities (and ...
Firefox Add-Ons Every Web Developer Must Have 12 Nov 2009 | 02:33 am
Here are my favorite Firefox add-ons Web Developer tool bar (gotta love Ctrl+Shift+f) Firebug (the best javascript debugger and more) Html Validator (great for seeing all your awesome htmlz c0dez) ...
Why you should be Careful on Public Computers 9 Nov 2009 | 05:22 am
So, to begin, the following has NOT happened to me, but I wanted to make sure people understand why public computers and certain browser features can be bad... very bad for you. Let's say you sign in...
Simple Year Pivoting Function 6 Oct 2009 | 02:54 pm
Year after year you know you have a product that will be updated at a[round] a certain month. It happens a lot with my business domain. Rather than changing lots of text, this should work nicely for m...
What software/hardware has your Employer Gotten for YOU? 22 Aug 2009 | 12:06 am
I work for a fabulous company, I've been with them for about 3 years. They are incredible about making sure developers have what they need to get the job done, whether it's software or hardware (or cl...
A Better string.IsNullOrEmpty and more... 20 Jun 2009 | 01:40 pm
Here's a better version of string.IsNullOrEmpty(). Why is it better you say? Well my friend, this one checks the string for spaces... It also returns a positive statement (true if it is NOT null and N...
