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Author Archives: Duncan Butler
A must do
If you are a software developer, then you owe it to yourself to take a look at this screen cast http://www.infoq.com/presentations/craftmanship-ethics There are times in a persons life when a influence comes along with can turn them around, reading Clean … Continue reading
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Kevin Hurwitz: Ready, Set, Panic!!!
Don’t ask how I found this little gem, I was browsing my feeds and followed a link, with a link etc, anyway you get the idea. We have a few new developers where I am currently employed, and very … Continue reading
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Test Deployment Items
I have been playing with the new Nhibernate bits, and working through the tutorial here, now he uses MbUnit, and NUnit which are great frameworks for testing, but I wanted to use the test framework supplied with visual studio. … Continue reading
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Separation of Concerns
This looks like a good series to follow, I am going to be interested in how each of the dependencies is broken out and split out, its great to see an example that solves a problem with out tests, … Continue reading
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Event Hookup Part Two
So what did I learn, that by creating a class that inherits EventArgs i can pass any information I need in an event, I did write a quick presenter and its test to ensure that the ITask interface worked as … Continue reading
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Event Hookup Part One
Ever had one of those problems where you are coding outside your normal zone, but you know the answer is simple, and can’t get the syntax right on the day? Friday was one of those days, here is the … Continue reading
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Why do home projects get so tricky
Well is been a while, but I thought I would just ask the question having stalled again on a home programming project, I wanted a simple program that would do some simple accounting, and after a MONTH I have … Continue reading
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Humanized Enso
Enso the user interface launcher and spell checker, well actually it does a whole lot more than simply that, have a look, as its now been updated so its available at last on vista, get it here Humanized Enso there is a … Continue reading
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Another one of those silly surveys
oh heck why can’t I resist them, give me a what type of xyz are you questionnaire and I am off, hopeless, well here is another one, this time "What sort of Programmer are you" it turns out that … Continue reading
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Hooking an Event in Silverlight v1.0
Today I started to play around with silverlight 1.0, now I don’t usually code in anything like Java Script, but coding in c# meant it wasn’t too bigger leap, and the small bit of hacking I have done for websites … Continue reading
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The Butler Did It 