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• Enabling auto-detection of response type in jQuery

  Posted: 15 Oct 2008 at 04:40 by Michael Nichols

  Sometimes you don't know what type of document the server is going to return, so it would be nice to have the ajax handler deal with the response as the server is directing it to. JQuery doesn't have this baked in (I have had a ticket for ages there to implement it), but a workaround is to r

• Continuous Improvement - One Developers Journey

  Posted: 15 Oct 2008 at 03:09 by Tim Barcz

  When I started my current position six months ago I was brought in to help with development of their new website application. Whether my boss knew it or not, that meant that I would be bringing a host of baggage with me. When I came I brought along of ideas and practices that were new to the develop

• Performing Code Katas

  Posted: 14 Oct 2008 at 03:21 by sergiopereira

  I just came back from the first meeting of the Software Craftsmanship Group. Tonight Micah Martin talked about Code Kata but added an extra facet to it. Micah proposes that, although practicing the Katas by yourself, in your spare time, is valuable, presenting your routine to an audience can delive

• ASP.NET SEO Interview on Polymorphic Podcast

  Posted: 14 Oct 2008 at 02:05 by Michael C. Neel

  Craig Shoemaker just posted the latest episode of the Polymorphic Podcast: ASP.NET SEO - Interview with Michael Neel.  Yes, I've now appeared in a podcast that I didn't have a hand in recording! Even if you don't listen to the show (and you should, Craig does an awesome job) check

• Mass Transit - Part 1 of

  Posted: 13 Oct 2008 at 23:05 by Tim Barcz

  This post is the first in a series of posts I plan to do about MassTransit, an open source messaging system written by Dru Sellers (blog) and Chris Patterson.  I plan on blogging my observations as I explore both the implementation and the source code.  Before I dig into MassTransit specif

• Setup up StructureMap 2.5 to Auto Configure your dependencies

  Posted: 13 Oct 2008 at 18:47 by Derik Whittaker

  One of the great new features with StructureMap 2.5 is the ability to have the container auto-wire you dependencies.  This means that if you want to you do not need to register all your types. Prior to this release if you wanted to map IFoo to Foo you needed to do something like this: Structure

• Caliburn Alpha for WPF AND Silverlight is Here!

  Posted: 13 Oct 2008 at 03:03 by Rob Eisenberg

  Caliburn is a framework designed to aid in the development of WPF and Silverlight applications. It implements a variety of UI patterns that are geared towards solving problems encountered in real-world scenarios.  It's goals are: Support building WPF/SL application that are TDD friendly. Im

• Partial Mocks with the StructureMap AutoMocker

  Posted: 10 Oct 2008 at 13:54 by Derik Whittaker

  If you have not checked out the new AutoMocking Container that is part of StructureMap 2.5 I would highly suggest you do, it rocks. I thought I would show how simple it is to create a PartialMock on the Class under Test (CUT) when using the RhinoAutoMocker. Our Class we want to mockpublic

• Tornado Update - Your Help Is Needed

  Posted: 09 Oct 2008 at 21:49 by Tim Barcz

  I'm sorry this is not a tech related post, but rather a call for your help. Many of you won't know this but my wife's home town of Parkersburg, Iowa was struck by a tornado back in May.  My in-laws lost everything.  All that was left of their house was the basement, literally.&

• jQuery Gotcha - Functions in Events

  Posted: 09 Oct 2008 at 11:43 by Casey Charlton

  I just spent way too long wondering why my silly page kept refreshing itself, one of the forms on the page was submitting itself over and over ... I had been refactoring some Javascipt to allow me to use it generically across pages. My orginal code to bind an ajax call to the submit of the form was

• Frictionless Subversion Updates

  Posted: 09 Oct 2008 at 04:20 by Tim Barcz

  Friend and fellow blogger Chris Sutton wrote a post the other day about updating source code with batch file.  I found it quite helpful given the number of open source projects I follow (or attempt to) and the different repositories we have at work.  A simple click and all projects registe

• Iowa Code Camp - November 8

  Posted: 08 Oct 2008 at 04:54 by Tim Barcz

  I want to invite any of you who are within a few hours of Des Moines, Iowa to attend the second Iowa Code Camp on November 8th.  The first Iowa Code Camp back in May was a huge success. From Derik's write-up: Yesterdays event was awesome.  They had about 125-150 people show up for the

• Chicago Alt.Net Meeting location for tomorrow has changed.

  Posted: 07 Oct 2008 at 22:41 by Derik Whittaker

  Sorry for the last minute notice, but we have to change locations for tomorrow’s meeting.  If you are planning on coming (and you should) please take not of the new location NEW LOCATIONRedpoint TechnologiesSears Tower233 South Wacker Dr.Suite 750Chicago, Illinois 60606 Same time, same everythi

• Resetting a TeamCity Password

  Posted: 07 Oct 2008 at 10:17 by Casey Charlton

  I switched to a new machine yesterday, and had to reinstall my TeamCity notifier ... so off I went to our TC site to download it, and bam, I was asked for my login ... annoyingly TC maintains it's own password and user accoutns, and then matches these up to NT accounts - so my domain login and p

• Save Dataset contents to XML and Null Values

  Posted: 06 Oct 2008 at 21:36 by Derik Whittaker

  Today I needed to save a fully populated dataset as xml to my drive in order to simplfly unit testing.  I thought this would be pretty straight forward, but as it turns out it was not.  There is one little wrinkle that may bite you if you are not careful.  Below I will describe what I

• Rhino Mocks 3.5 RTM

  Posted: 06 Oct 2008 at 02:19 by Tim Barcz

  Yesterday Oren announced the release of RhinoMocks 3.5.  While the RC version has been out for a bit the RTM release fixes a few bugs.  You can read all about the enhancements and features in Oren's post.  The feature that excites me the most about the new RhinoMocks release is th

• Using the RhinoAutoMocker that is part of StructureMap 2.5

  Posted: 05 Oct 2008 at 19:58 by Derik Whittaker

  One of the new features that is part of the next release of StructureMap 2.5 is a AutoMocking Container.  What is an AutoMocking Container, well per Jacob over at Eleutian an AutoMocker is AutoMockingContainer is simply a IoCContainer with a custom facility and dependency resolver that supplies

• Finding the difference between two Arrays, or un-LINQ-ing your code

  Posted: 03 Oct 2008 at 22:24 by Michael C. Neel

  LINQ is great, up to the point when it's not.  Then it's really not great at all.  When we trade simplicity of syntax for performance, we have to keep in mind there may come a point when we have to go back the code and factor out the shiny new toys. My system is complex, but this t

• Speaking engagements on the horizon

  Posted: 03 Oct 2008 at 13:18 by Derik Whittaker

  I thought I would just drop a little note on some speaking engagements I will be doing over the next month or so. Oct 30th - Lake County (IL) .Net Users Group - Gorking the Asp.Net MVC Framework Nov 12th - TriNug - Raleigh .Net Users Group - Taking tests to the next level with Mocks (will dive into

• Testing Pre-Requisite - Care About Your Code

  Posted: 03 Oct 2008 at 03:20 by Tim Barcz

  There's a lot of posts and chatter about testing, TDD, and a number of other topics on this blog, the larger devlicio.us site, and the .NET community in general.  Before all that, it should go without saying, but it must be said; there is a pre-requisite to testing, care about your code. Yo