by David | Aug 10, 2014 | Deployment, Development, General, Tooling, Tools
There’s always that time when you set up a new environment and want to get to that file registered in %PATH%, like msbuild in the developers console or something. You Google or dir /s and eventually find that files but always wonder, is there...
by David | Jul 15, 2014 | Clean code, Development, Tooling, Tools
I got around to some cleaning today removing all our project warnings, yes you know which I mean, those nasty yellow things in the bottom of your Visual Studio screen every time you build. The ones we shrug at and say “well, they’re just warnings” 🙂...
by David | Jul 15, 2014 | Development, General, Testing, Tooling, Tools
We’re using a nice vSphere ESXi 5.1 host for a lot of our VMs at work and today I found myself unable to get proper mouse and keyboard capture in the VMs. It just acted really strange, sometimes I could get mouse capture when I was outside the VM and as soon as...
by David | Jul 14, 2014 | Development, Statistics, Testing, Tooling, Tools
Code coverage is a good tool to force you to keep maintaining and adding unit and integration tests to your solution. It also increases your confidence in making changes if you can see that the code your changing is actually covered by tests both...
by David | Jul 13, 2014 | Tooling, Tools, Web
In the last post, I switched to a new syntax highlighter for WordPress that I’d like to recommend to the rest of the word, namely the Crayon Syntax highlighter available on the wordpress plugin site:Â Crayon It’s got a huge set of features, a wide range of...
by David | Jul 13, 2014 | Debugging, Deployment, Development, Tooling, Tools
Time for an update about my recent ventures. I’ve just now uploaded my very first public Codeplex and Nuget package! Yay! It’s called IndentationSplitter and gives right now you a single class called SimpleTree. This class has two methods, Format and...
