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A while back I read Steven Harman's post about using AutoHotKey on Windows to alleviate the pain of writing underscores into your test names to do BDD-style naming. I am using David Tchepak's version of the macro because I like the way it works and it has the sweet visual tray icon. This macro is a godsend when writing english-sentence-ish names for tests and fixtures, as the underscore is a super pain in the ass, but really helps with readability, and if you are using a tool like SpecUnit.net that parses names on underscores, they're a necessity.
The only...
...Is the suggestion on every concatenated string to use String.Format(). String.Format is great for some things (localization particularly) but I don't know, seems like maybe some newer developers might take the suggestion that String.Formatting everything is better than simple concatenation which, from a performance standpoint, it is not. (no, it's also not gonna totally destroy your program...but a bad practice is a bad practice c'est no?)
Tags: ReSharper Tools
Yeah, I know, www.monthsbehind.com
Anyway, now that I have a little more time on my hands, I'm making a concerted effort to improve my process, and sharpen my sword. In doing so, I've decided to try out ReSharper.
I know, a ton of people use it and love it. I tried it out like...I don't know probably 2 years ago, and I didn't really grok it right away (like, within 10 minutes lol) so I dumped it.
Installed the trial tonite and am playing around with some fluff project code while I get a feel for it. While looking for tutorials (would it...
Don’t ridicule.
While continuing to get my life in order, I plan to start Getting Things Done. Maybe not to the letter, but certianly to the spirit.
Anyway, I often find myself making to-do lists, or jotting random stuff down, and usually I’ll do a Start|Run notepad and jot a few line items. By the end of the day I have several whatever.txt files on my desktop, and they build up. Someone out there please confirm if you do the same? Tell me I’m not an aberration. I need validation!
Whoa. Ok. Back to reality. So in addition to all the notepad files,...
So I got bored today while I was waiting for Sam to get here and open his presents. Registered for del.icio.us. Figured, rather than do a bunch of linkblogging here, when I primarily just want to save links, I could del.icio.us them. Then I decided since I don’t really web browse anymore, I should make an RSSBandit plugin. Get it here. Unzip to the Plugins directory of RSSBandit, change the delicious.xml file to have your del.icio.us user name, launch RSSBandit, and you’re good to go.
Should work in other IBlogExtension supporting aggregators…but I’m not going to test it…so let me know.
If...
So some of you may have read about my annoyance a few days ago with RSSBandit bagging all my items marked for followup. Yes, totally my fault for the procrastinating.
So anyway, I decided tonight to give a try at creating a plugin for RSSBandit. It was about the easiest code I've ever written, mostly because I wrote basically none of it! I used the OneNote Managed API from Donovan, and of course I implemented the IBlogExtension interface after reading through the excellent tutorial from you've been haacked. All in all, about 10 minutes to learn, write, test.
The plugin allows you...
This has been going around today, in various blogs (Stefano), and a similar article on Slashdot
So, here are my Top-10 Non-MS programs for a new build:
Firefox
Thunderbird
Trillian
WinAmp
Daemon Tools
WinRAR
WinZip (yes, I use them both)
RSS Bandit
Napster
Process Explorer
The thing about lists is, there's always a few more than fit in the defined list, so honorable mention goes to csUnit, Macromedia Studio, and 3c, which...