October 2009 - Posts

Merge Two Objects into an Anonymous Type (while ignoring some properties)

The other day I ran into this situation and found not only a good solution but also built it up a bit. I thought I would share it. My situation was this, I needed to combine an object with some additional information, as JSON, and pass it back to the Read More

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Thanks Windows Autmatic Update for wasting my morning!

So I come into work this morning and fire up my dev virtual machine and am quickly hit with a pegged out CPU and mostly unresponsive applications. I pull up Task Manager to see what is up. Show all processes and notice msiexec and TrustedInstaller taking Read More

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Build + Run MSpec

I hope to put together a full post on MSpec but until then check out Rob Conery's Make BDD your BFF post (which I mostly agree with). If you're too lazy to click on Rob's post and still reading basically MSpec is Aaron Jensen's twist on a BDD based testing Read More

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What I've been up to lately...

So it's been a while since I've really focused on this blog. Hopefully that will change as my work situation has changed in the last few months. Earlier this year I was released from the consulting firm I had worked at for almost 5 years. Losing my job Read More

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Merlin Mann - "Toward Patterns for Creativity"

In case you haven't seen this I highly recommend watching it. Merlin Mann is the founder of 43folders.com and IMO has a good grasp on this being creative thing. Original Video Read More

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