When editing an XML file in Vim, I wanted to delete the content of an element so that I could replace it with some completely new text. I thought I could use ct< to change up until the next < character but that didn’t work because the end tag was on a subsequent line. I [...]
Is this too obscure? public class MyObject { private MyExpensiveObject _myExpensiveObject; public MyExpensiveObject ExpensiveObject { get { return _myExpensiveObject ?? (_myExpensiveObject = new MyExpensiveObject()); } } }
I just pushed a pet project of mine up to GitHub today. It’s a port of the original game of Rogue from C to C#. It’s not complete–it doesn’t save your progress and let you continue on later, but it is playable. Now that the actual port is done, I plan on cleaning up the [...]
IE 7 and up are hard-coded to bypass the proxy when the host is “localhost”. When Fiddler is running, you can change localhost to “ipv4.fiddler” to trick your browser into talking to the Fiddler proxy as documented here. Since manually changing the host every time I want to test an ASP.NET or Silverlight application is [...]
I took some time tonight to throw together a build script for producing proper releases of AutoRunner. If you don’t feel like compiling it yourself, you can get a pre-compiled version here. I used ILMerge to merge the Growl for Windows assemblies into the executable so it’s basically a single file now. By the way, [...]
I recently came across this awesome code kata performance by Corey Haines here. Besides enjoying and learning from his actual performance, I was really impressed by his use of a Ruby tool called autotest. (I’m not sure, but it looks like it has become autospec.) Not being a Ruby developer, I wanted the same thing [...]
I’ve been using Fabio Maulo‘s NUnitEx project to get fluent assertions on a personal project recently and have been loving it. He then went and moved on to a new project called SharpTestsEx, which he intended to be framework-agnostic, but currently only worked with MSTest which prevented me from being able to use it (since [...]
Chris Kapilla reminded me in a comment that the World Wide Web is made of links. When I lost all the content in my weblog, I left a bunch of dangling links out there (like those in this Verify JavaScript with JSLint during build using Nant post). So I went and found an old copy [...]
The problem: Hiding Your hbm.xml files in Visual Studio (or not) The solution: How to nest NHibernate mapping files in Visual Studio projects I’m doing this in Visual Studio 2008. I don’t know if this is a “bug” or not, but it sure is annoying. The fix Timo posted does work, but it requires editing [...]
I’m so sick of Ctrl+Tab’ing back to my test file, finding the test I want to run, right-clicking it with the mouse, and selecting Run Test(s) or Test With. How come nobody told me that TestDriven.NET came with keyboard shortcuts? They have to be manually mapped, but once I did that, I’ve found them indispensible. [...]