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Happy New Year

Happy New Year everyone! I've been having some issues with my server recently, so if this post makes it out there all the better. I just received notification from Microsoft this morning that I have...

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Code to Live Video from Tulsa TechFest

Jeffrey Palermo and I sat down with Chris Koenig while at Tulsa TechFest back in October to chat about the new ASP.NET MVC stack.  Josh Holmes just published an extract of our conversation out on...

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Vibrant Ink for Visual Studio 2008

For those of you that enjoy the Vibrant Ink theme that was originally produced for Textmate, John Lam converted it to work under both Vim and Visual Studio 2005 a while back.  I've enjoyed that for...

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Creating Objects - Round 3

Ayende has beendiscussing the different ways of actually creating objects in .NET and the perf cost associated to each of them.  I thought I'd add to the mix one more method, using the DLR.  I've...

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Microsoft Mocking Framework and TypeMock

While everyone has been wondering over the past couple years when Microsoft would ship its own version of a mocking framework, as of yesterday TypeMockannounced it has been acquired by Microsoft and...

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Vim Tip of the Day - File Explorer Navigation

I don't know how I didn't come across this before, but when using the file explorer built into Vim, you can tell Vim to automatically switch the working directory to the current file you are editing....

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Vim + Firefox = Vimperator

Okay, so I've lamented about how I enjoy using Vim/gVim several times now. If you are still using notepad.exe as your text editor I strongly advise you to check out some of the other editors out on the...

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Vimperator Tip - awesome bar

I just wanted to share a quick vimperator tip. You can get the awesome bar style hints by adding the following two commands to your _vimperatorrc file: :set wildoptions=auto :set cpt=l

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Generic Factory over Object Initializers

Consider the following generic factory method:    public class Builder    {        public static TType Create<TType>(Action<TType> actionOnTType) where TType : new()        {            var...

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Launch shell script silently at login

In OSX I needed a shell script to execute at login. There are a few different ways to perform this so I thought it might be helpful to document what your options are. I've switched over to Emacs which...

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