I love things that make my programs act like vi when I need to edit or jump to things quickly. Among the vi addons I use are: viPlugin for Eclipse, viEmu for Visual Studio and SQL Server Management Studio, and Vimperator for Firefox. I was coding on a rather large project recently using Zend Studio [...]
I had a hard time getting IIS 6 on my newly reformatted Windows XP Professional 64-bit to serve up ASP.NET applications. IIS was not installed by default, so I installed it through the normal control panel operations. Then I ran aspnet_regiis -ir, and figured that was that. When I added a virtual directory on the [...]
I am currently working on a Test Driven Development (TDD) Flickr API library in .NET. There already exists a FlickrNet library that is written in .NET, but it was written without using TDD and is very tightly coupled to the methods that send requests to flickr. I’ve tried refactoring the library but it just isn’t [...]
Robert Stackhouse wrote an excellent article on his blog titled Frameworks as a Means of Creating Transferrable Expertise. I started writing a response in the comments and ended up going off on quite a tangent. Thus, I’ve reposted parts of his article and my responses here, as well as some followup dialog. It almost seems [...]
Everytime I think I’m going to unsubscribe from the Lifehacker feed I run across an article I really like that makes me rethink my decision. This time it is an article title Top 10 Tools for a Free Online Education. It covers things such as programming, musical instruments, and languages. When I have some downtime [...]
