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Bleary-eyed ruminations of a work at home Father.

Monday, April 06, 2009

VS Missing TestDriven.NET’s “Test With” Menu

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Problem: The “Test With” menu from TestDriven.NET isn’t showing up in Visual Studio’s context menu when you’re right-clicking in a test fi...
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Thursday, April 02, 2009

Twitter Poll Results: Favorite Visual Studio Add Ons

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Last night I posed the question on Twitter: Aside from ReSharper, what are your favorite add ons for Visual Studio?  Below are the respons...
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Book Review: The Art of Lean Software Development

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The Art of Lean Software Development by Curt Hibbs, et. al. Published by O’Reilly, ISBN 0596517319. This is a concise work weighing in at...
Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Central Ohio Day of .NET Registration Open!

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Mike Wood has the registration open for the Central Ohio Day of .NET ! The event’s on 18 April at the Roberts Centre in Wilmington, smack ...
Monday, March 16, 2009

April Speaking Gigs

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I’ve got a semi-busy April lined up with talks at three events in the region: 4 April: .NET University in Grand Rapids, MI . I’m really pu...
Monday, March 09, 2009

Another .NET University Coming Up!

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Chris Woodruff (AKA “Woody”) is putting on a .NET University in Grand Rapids on 4 April . Chris got inspired by the .NET U that I helped Je...
Thursday, February 26, 2009

Book Review: Clean Code

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Clean Code by Robert C. Martin, ISBN 0132350882 Here’s a rhetorical question: Should you work hard to ensure your software code is readab...
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Why You Should Always Validate Your Input

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Malicious folks are out there. They want to hurt your software. You’d better do everything you can to keep those little b*#!&@rds away ...
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Saturday, February 07, 2009

Selenium Test Suite Not Starting in TestRunner

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Problem : You’re invoking a Selenium test suite via the command line and the Java jar file, using something like java -jar selenium-server...
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Friday, February 06, 2009

Selenium Trick: Warm Up Site First

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I’ve been having some issues where the first Selenium test suite in a series of suites was failing because of timeouts. Our Selenium test ru...

VMWare Issue: “This Virtual Machine Appears to be in Use”

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I had a power outage which caused a power loss to the external drive my VMWare virtual system’s running on – this is the wrong way to find o...
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Thursday, February 05, 2009

Leadership 101: Wrapping Up

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I’m a firm believer that while a few great leaders (Eisenhower, Welch, Reagan) are born to the role, the vast majority of successful leaders...
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Wednesday, February 04, 2009

Getting Selenium HTML Test Suites Running Automatically

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We’ve been working on using Selenium to write tests around our major functional slices in Community Server . Selenium enables you to write ...
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Leadership 101: Odds and Ends Grab Bag

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My second-to-last post in this series is really a grab bag of several topics which I thought important but was too lazy to come up with enou...
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Monday, February 02, 2009

PowerShell Snippet for Combining Directory Paths

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System.IO.Path.Combine rocks for safely combining directory paths, but it’s got a silly inflexibility built in which means you’ve got to cle...
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Leadership 101: Stop Talking and Listen

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This one might be subtitled “Miscommunication? It's Your Fault, Not Theirs.” That or “Make Your Default Answer ‘Yes’, not ‘No’.” Let’s...
Sunday, February 01, 2009

Excellent CodeMash Video Posted

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John Kellar posted up a great video he made at CodeMash on his Edge of Dev series for Telerik TV . There’s a bunch of video of an intervi...
Friday, January 30, 2009

Leadership 101: Integrity is a Coin You Can’t Afford to Spend

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Two of the worst leadership failures I’ve seen both involved me as the recipient of dishonest, duplicitous actions by leaders while I was in...
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Central Ohio Day of .NET Call For Speakers

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The Central Ohio Day of .NET will be Saturday, 18 April, and will once again be held at the Roberts Centre in Wilmington, Ohio. We’re now...
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Leadership 101: Open That Door!

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While at Quick Solutions , I had mentorship responsibilities for a number of folks. I was very fortunate that all my mentorees were in Quick...
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Jim Holmes
I'm the owner/principal of Guidepost Systems. I help lots of great folks figure out what works and what doesn't in the world of delivering quality software -- something I'm very passionate about. I'm also a Father trying to remain sane while trying to build great software, herd my kids around, fix school lunches and handle the yardwork. (And roast great coffee!)
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