Assert Fail

Explicit use of computed?

For many projects I’ve been using the pattern: ns.CtorFunction = function(){ var self = this; this.doStuff = function(){ // do stuff and use self in order to get the object variables } } Turns out that this pat…

Since I liked the ruby version for parsing phone numbers, I ported it to C#.

I’ve done some small tests while writing the library to handle readonly objects in C#.

One thing I like about F# is the ability to use readonly objects in a way that does not require a lot of code.

I went to leetspeak yesterday.

I had some trouble running NuGet on ubuntu.

I dusted off some old code that I’ve written to query the API provided by Skånetrafiken.

Command line tools should do what people expect.

Whats good about spreadsheets?

We have written a lot of ruby code in the project I’m currently working in.

We first heard of the Australian government getting fallout from the US because of voiced concerns about using offshore cloud providers.

While developing a web app, it’s easy to inspect the traffic in the browser (chrome, IE and firefox have all the ability to show traffic related to the page you are debugging).

This is a lesson I should have learned.

Reading source code is hard.

I was thinking about how nice you have it in some languages where you can do a case statement for types.

As a programmer it is easy to adopt a view of the world in light of our experience.

Many times when you return to code that you have written you will swear and be annoyed with your lack of foresight.

The impression I’ve gotten from working with ruby is that it’s generally fun to work with.

One of the fears is that the days of PC is considered over.

Coffeescript has been heralded as a way to avoid some of the nastiness of JavaScript.

I had some trouble where a simple parser would take a bit of time.

Imagine the user experience of a gaming console.

So, Im using Process Monitor to hunt down some permission or anti virus problems in windows.

We are waiting for VS2012.

Yesterday I spent hours trying to figure out why a checkbox did not get checked (visually).

Many programmers and engineers I’ve met say when asked about philosophy: I don’t really care for it.

What are the most important differences between native applications and web applications (for mail, rss et.c.) when it comes to login?

Refusing?

We don’t even know how old instruments are The earliest type of instrument is thought to be flutes.

We had a small problem with one of the open source components that we use.

There seems that the there is a shift from the Crockford style global variables to lower case namespaces or mixed case.

A relational database is not only a source of content.

In some settings you might need to access more of the language than available through reflection and System.Linq.Expressions.

Make sure that the environment variable LANG is set to “us_EN.UTF-8”.

Thanks to Fervent Coder we have Chocolatey.

The alternatives right now (2012-02-22): Standard html: File select together in a form that is submitted to a page.

What if we could do a continuous code coverage?

When programming on windows, you will sometimes need to execute batch files.

The more I think about the metro style, it sounds really revolutionary for microsoft design.

We have Scott’s method.

A better fit in the browser world for knockout than MVC is to have something like a controller.

Array.prototype.filter seems to be slightly off in IE7-8.

Lovely geekery when press play on tape plays cannon fodder with old game controllers.

I’ve renamed the dotnet-console project on github to isop.

There are some pitfalls.

I’ve updated the dotnet-console to enable help.

Why so many monitors?

Inspired by the minimalists I tried this out on the arduino: int speakerPin = 11; void outp(byte value) {     analogWrite(speakerPin, value); delayMicroseconds(200); } void setup() {     pinMode(speakerPin, OUTPUT);     // Set up T…

Dispose In order to release unmanaged resources you need to use or implement the dispose method.