April 2007 - Posts

Goodbye plumber
Published 04-26-2007 11:28 AM | jokiz
after a year of using bloglines , i have now been using google reader. i just love the the "all items" in "list view" mode. been familiarizing myself with the keyboard shortcuts (as usual) but for the meantime, you can subscribe to...
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Single repository, multiple project setup
Published 04-25-2007 12:28 PM | jokiz
Our company is still using a single subversion repository tree for all our projects with the following classic structure. root --elcs ----trunk ----tags ----branch --hcs ----trunk ----tags ----branch One disadvantage of this setup is that all projects...
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Resharper's new evaluation scheme
Published 04-25-2007 11:20 AM | jokiz
I just revisited Jetbrains' site for updates on their product and i was surprised that they have implemented a new evaluation scheme . Evaluation does not need a license key anymore. I guess it's goodbye for prolonged evaluation for some developers...
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handling unique constraint violations
Published 04-24-2007 6:52 PM | jokiz
unique constraints are very common for database table designs in applications nowadays. there are two ways to safely code an application to cater for this unique constraint requirement. (1) do an existence check/query before doing the insert. (2) let...
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Debugging ICollection
Published 04-24-2007 2:22 PM | jokiz
i'm sure you have experienced debugging an ICollection type and couldn't see the values included in the said collection, recursively expanding nodes in your QuickWatch just like this: i just found this forum post about it here using visualizers...
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System.BadImageFormatException: The format of the file <filename> is invalid
Published 04-17-2007 11:08 AM | jokiz
I was trying to install a .NET executable as a windows service using installutil.exe yesterday and i got this message. It was the first time that i encounter such exception when installing a windows service. Turned out that the environment path for my...
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rhinomocks
Published 04-15-2007 7:39 PM | jokiz
i've been fiddling with rhino mocks for the past weeks and i must say that i'm beginning to get the hang out of it. i previously attempted to use it in past project but i had a hard time using it. as a result, i dropped including interaction testing in...