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Testing .Net Webservices with cURL
Fair warning, this is one of those posts that may or may not be useful to many of you out there, but I wanted to document this somewhere ’cause there’s a good chance I’ll need to do it again in the near future. I’m wrapping up a mobile application that needed to communicate with a [...]
Read PostTurning Off Regions in ReSharper
I’m not a fan of seeing regions in my code and, by default, ReSharper is configured to group members (methods, interface implementations, etc) with regions when running the Code Cleanup utility. I’ve turned this off a couple of times but it usually takes some poking around until I remember what to do again. From within [...]
Read PostReview: Brownfield Application Development in .Net
I just finished reading Brownfield Application Development in .Net by Kyle Baley and Donald Belcham and thought I’d put together a quick review some of the strengths and weaknesses the book has to offer. It’s broken up into two sections with the first half of the book describing how to create a healthy ecosystem for [...]
Read PostComparing Design Patterns in Ruby and C#: The Command Pattern (with Robots!)
The command pattern is another one of those patterns that we all (whether we realize it or not) see almost every day. It’s commonly used in UI development but it’s a pattern that can be applied in many situations. In rails, ActiveRecord migrations are a perfect example of a command implementation, including “up” and “down” [...]
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