Contents tagged with General stuff
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Blog moved
I have decided to move my blog from here over to Don't Believe the Type. There are a number of reasons I have decided to do this mainly:-
- I need more control over how the blog looks.
- Too much spam and little control over how to manage it.
- Bring the url in line with my new company name Asterope Systems
- I want to focus on other technical aspects not just ASP.Net
I have loved being part of the asp.net blogging community here, but you will notice a lack of posts in the past year. This has been down to mainly being more mobile and not having the right tooling in place (use WinRT surface a lot of the time). Now that I am hosting on Wordpress, I have a better writing environment and have more general control over the site.
I have imported all these posts over and I am in the process of tidying them up to look nicer.
Hope you will join me over at my new blog.
Thanks
Garry Pilkington -
Full Circle
Things have been a little bit hectic these past 6 months hence the lack of posts. My excuse is a good one though, my wife gave birth to our first son Tom back in September and it has been one hell of a rollercoaster ride since then. Things have settled back down now thank hevens.
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WinMerge as a Comparison Tool in Visual Studio 2008
Ok I know VS 2010 is the new toy to be seen playing around with, but as I have just recently got delivery of my new Windows 7 pc I thought I would document how to get WinMerge to work as a comparison tool with VS2008 Team System. If for anything, so I know myself when the time comes to do it all over again.
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Unit Testing Videos
The Learn Visual Studio.net website has just published a new series on unit testing, covering an introduction to unit testing, using MSTest, and NUnit. These are always good sources of practical information to help you get up to speed on anything .net. Go check them out.
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Code Snippet Plugin for Live Writer
For anybody who regularly displays code using Live Writer, then this plugin by Leo Vildosola is a must to check out. When ever I do a rebuild of any of my computers this has to go on and I always have trouble remembering where I found it.
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Quickly reading technical articles and books
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Open containing folder
This is one VS 2008 shortcut I use all the time. Open the folder which contains the file you are currently working on.
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Objectives 2009
I am a little late in setting out my resolutions, and although 1st January is a good time of year to set out your objectives, I’ve never liked to be restricted by a date. If I smoked (which I don’t), and I wanted to give it up, I wouldn’t wait until the 1st Jan, I would give up there and then. No time like the present. So last February I set out some objectives for the coming 6 months, how did I do?
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My end of year tool honours list
Well the holiday season is finally upon us, and I would like to take this opportunity to post a list of applications that I personally have found useful over the past 12 months. There are some classics in there, but a few surprises. Have a look, there may be something of interest to you. So, have yourself a ‘Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year’.
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Protect your job...perhaps by learning new tech goodies
It is in the news so much recently that there is no avoiding the fact we are either in or about to go in to a recession (here in the UK that is). There is already job losses in the tech industry, wether these losses were going to happen anyway, and now is a good time to blame the economic outlook is not a topic I am trying to cover; this has been covered here. What I am trying to address really is how do you protect your job? And if you do loose your job, how do you improve your chances of getting straight back in to employment?
