Stitches Out Week
Bandages off. A little sore and swollen. Time to get strong đŞ.
All Posts
This page contains an archive of all posts on this blog, organized by date.
2019
Bandages Off
Recovery update - bandages are off, feeling a bit sore and swollen but ready to get back to building strength.
Recovery
Meniscus fixed. On the road to recovery.
Chatty Ghosts
How is it that I have so many messages to go through after the holiday? Everyone says this place is a ghost town⌠these ghosts really have a lot to say.
2018
Soccer Sunday
Soccer Sunday
A Black Screen
Time to do a clean install of macOS toady. Canât login anymore.. just a black screen.
Pulled Out Some
Pulled out some Protest the Hero this morning to fix all the things for arm64e!
Your Talent Is
Your talent is your greatest nemesis when it comes to your mindset. You have to edit your behavior and work. Talent only gets you so far: hard work beats tal...
RMBF: Resting Mouth, Blank Face
RMBF. Resting mouth breather face.
Bobâs Burgers
On the way home from Whistler and the girls wanted to stop at Bobâs Burgers because you know⌠Bobâs Burgers. They are mad this is not the Bobâs Burgers. đ¤Śââď¸
Number One
Everybody wants to be number one. I have never talked to anyone and said âdo you want to be number 3?â and get a âYesâ. Not everyone is ready to do what it t...
Emotional Pendulum Swing
The greatest emotional pendulum swing in 30 seconds. Hey coach, we just needed more room to throw the ball..
Not My True Life
Perhaps this life is not my true life. This world not my true home. But she was. She always will be.
Is it Over?
It wasnât over. It still isnât over.
I Canât Get This Out of My Head Today
I canât get this out of my head today âThe scariest thing about distance is that you donât know wether theyâll miss you or forget you.â
Fahrenheit 451
Watching Fahrenheit 451 and the strong correlation to today makes me sad. It makes me sad for all the books they have already banned in schools today. Big br...
Getting Started with Flint
Leaving this here for later⌠might be interesting to play with and see if it helps.
A Cartoon Intro to DNS over HTTPS
Even simple enough for me.
Sunday Monday
Sunday is recovery day. Why does Monday always feel like a grind?
Post Workout Coffee
Post workout coffee is the best. Especially after bike, burpees, power snatch and toe to bars.
Time to Take a Walk
Running UI tests is the new compiling⌠time to take a walk.
Mob Programming: How We Stumbled Upon and Learned to Love It
Mob Programming: How We Stumbled Upon and Learned to Love It
The software engineerâs guide to asserting dominance in the workplace
I might have to make a call today.
Creating a Culture of Consistency
[Creating a Culture of Consistency]](https://naildrivin5.com/blog/2018/05/06/creating-a-culture-of-consistency.html):
The software engineerâs guide to asserting dominance in the workplace
The software engineerâs guide to asserting dominance in the workplace
I am not Trash
Donât let them take you out if they think you are trash.
Todayâs Mission
Todayâs mission if you accept it:
My Creed: Learn
My creed. Learn it, love it, live it:
Being a Good
Being a good team mate should be the first requirement for any developer that is working on a team.
Still a Job
You know itâs a fun job, but still a job itunes.apple.com
I Am Not
I am not accident prone, I am a licensed gravity tester.
Music Shifts Your Perspective
Music shifts your perspective⌠helps you see things differently. I love music.
Happy Easter
Happy Easter!
Burpee
Burpees for days
Sitting Here Watching
Sitting here watching Fringe and forgot that Chadwick Boseman (Black Panther) was in the episode Subject 9.
Cousins and Coffee
Cousins and coffee.
Time to Watch
Time to watch all the kids play. Love hearing everyone from elementary to high school.
Life is a TRAP
I donât like to talk much about politics (although this shouldnât be political): I just donât understand how so many people can be pro-life then once that pe...
Life is a Rough Sport
Days like these the phrase âLife is a rough sportâ really rings true.
Grey and Rainy
After living in the Northwest for many years, you would think I was used to the grey and rainy days. Nope⌠hate them.
My Tetris Board
I will no longer refer to it as âMy Calendarâ and now refer to it as âMy Tetris Boardâ.
21st Century Schizoid Man
Sitting here watching the College Football Playoffs, I hear 21rst Century Schizoid Man being played by one of the bands. I said âWow! I am surprised to here ...
2017
Apple Watch Repair
Sending out my Apple Watch for repair. Mic not working. Going to miss my activity streak and badges :(.
Air Mattress
What I learned on this trip: sleeping on an air mattress is air at night, quicksand in the morning.
Galveston
Sitting here in Galveston, TX thinking about all my people in the snow in Seattle. Cold and grey yet a great Christmas.
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas you filthy animals!
Dominoâs Pizza
I wonder if this Dominoâs pizza insurance thing has a clause for the 5 second rule.
Holiday Travel
Holiday traveling is always interesting. Flights overbooked and offering 400 US to change. I wonder how many times you can change and collect a ticket around...
Crossing the Street
Really wish people crossing the street in the morning did not were all black in the rain. The only thing I could see was the light coming from their phone as...
Finding Loaded Frameworks in macOS
I have been sitting on this for a while. After starting back at Microsoft, I work on HockeyApp which includes the HockeyApp macOS application. The app had a ...
UWP symbolication
Spent time last night fixing UWP symbolication issues in HockeyApp. Needs a little more love but things are working again. #partynightcoding
FaceID is Awesome
FaceID is awesome. TouchID is beastly⌠no longer can live like an animal.
Ordered my iPhone X
Ordered my iPhone X. Took me a while because I was in San Fransico where the caching for the store was bad because everyone there were trying to get the pho...
2014
A Swift Reaction
Swift and ReactiveCocoa seem like a perfect fit. Swift is designed with first-class functions and a succinct closure syntax, and ReactiveCocoa is all abou...
CodeLens Team Indicators - Processing Pipeline
CodeLens Team Indicators - Processing Pipeline - Microsoft Application Lifecycle Management - Site Home - MSDN Blogs:
Expanding User-Defined Runtime Attributes in Xcode
Expanding User-Defined Runtime Attributes in Xcode:
What I Do Everyday
If you every wanted to know what I do everyday⌠this is it:
Code Lens for Git
Code Lens for Git in Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate Update 3
Iron Foundry V2
For the last several months I have been working on an extension with Cloud Foundry V2 that allows users to deploy Windows / .NET applications: Iron Foundry.Â
Reusable Podfiles
Dream Engine Blog:
XP is the Mac of Agile
XP is the Mac of Agile:
Useful Xcode Build Phases
Useful Xcode Build Phases - Matthew Morey:
2013
What A Difference Six Years MakesâŚ
ParisLemon â What A Difference Six Years MakesâŚ:
Canât Activate Windows for Surface Pro
Since I am leaving Microsoft I decided to reset my Surface Pro to remove everything and start over. I had moved the restore partition to a USB drive earlier ...
Imagineering Disney: Mickeyâs Ten Commandments
This is great adviseâŚ. even when it comes to software.
Anatomy Of A Good Commit Message
Anatomy Of A Good Commit Message
A perspective: developers vs Microsoft
[A perspective: developers vs Microsoft ReactOS Project](http://www.reactos.org/node/637):Â
My First WWDC
Every year I say I am going to WWDC and every year it passes and I say âNext year for sure.â. Â This year I decided it was time to put up or shut up. I did my...
Seven Deadly Sins of Modern Objective-C
A great list of potential problems with Objective-C code that goes beyond stylistic preferences to focus on objective code quality issues.
Build Numbers, Tags, Releases: Oh My!
Working on a Mac / iOS projects, I have been trying to come up with an easy way to bump versions when it goes out the door for testing or production. Mostly ...
Typed Collections with Self Types in Objective-C
Jonathan Sterling â Typed Collections with Self Types in Objective-C:
2012
Asynchronous calls in C++ Windows Store Unit Tests
In our Hilo project we wrote TDD with lots of unit tests. The one thing we noticed is there were no good way to run tests that were asynchronous. Given that ...
Overcoming Customer Inertia
Overcoming Customer Inertia:
Simply Writing Tests Is Not Test Driven Development
Simply Writing Tests Is Not Test Driven Development:
p&p Symposium 2013
The patterns & practices Symposium 2013 is scheduled for January 15 â 17, on campus in Redmond. This is a great opportunity for you to connect and learn.
The Windows 8 C++ Hilo Team
My last hurrah at patterns & practices was the C++ Windows 8 app Hilo. It made it into the Windows SDK. It is amazing how much we got done and how much I...
CTP of Quarterly Update for Microsoft Visual Studio 2012
One of the things I love about working in Visual Studio is the now we are shipping on a much more timely cadence. We are going to start sending out quarterly...
The More Things ChangeâŚ
Sad to see this⌠another friend leaves the mothership: Leaving Microsoft.
Microsoft Developers First Flight
Microsoft Developerâs First Flight:
Microsoftâs New Logo
One of the things my team worked on for Visual Studio 2012 is the Video feature. The idea is to give you a good introduction into a specific feature in VS. O...
Microsoftâs New Logo
Why canât we have this one back! This one rocked!
Agile for Startups
Agile for Startups:
Debugger Type Visualizers for C++ in Visual Studio 2012
This is cool stuff. If you have your own types and want to extend the debugger⌠this is for you. (Or if you are just a big nerd like me).
ClaimsPrincipal Everywhere
Oh happy days! Every principal is derived from ClaimsPrincipal in .NET 4.5. This makes all the work on the book we did that much more relevant now.  So if yo...
Moving On (Again)
It must be that time of year. I have been at patterns & practices for a couple of years again and it has been awesome. Since I have been back I have work...
SQLite for Window 8
I have been really waiting for this one. With release 3.7.13 we get support for WinRT and building your Windows Store apps. Time to start compiling and playi...
JavaScript Linux in your Browser
This is so cool!
Stop Visual Studio Yelling at You
I am getting old. Â I really like Visual Studio, but I am not a fan of the new all caps mode in the menu bar. If you want to stop yelling at you:
patterns & practices is hiring!
I guess the cat is out of the bag or at least it is going to be so here is the post from Bob:
Unit Testing Private Methods - Just Say No
Agreeing with Peter Provostâs take on unit testing private methods - donât do it. Focus on testing public interfaces instead.
Another Hilo Drop
Last night we made another Hilo drop. This is the latest greatest code and tests. We are getting close and the code is getting better. Go download the latest...
API Design Rules
Matt Gemmell is an awesome developer and has written a great guide for Api Design Rules for iOS and OS X. I would argue that you could apply these anywhere.
Review: Test Driving iOS Development with Kiwi
Love the RSA Networks! The Power of Networks
Review: Test Driving iOS Development with Kiwi
I have long been a fan of Test Driven Development (TDD). I have used all kinds of frameworks for doing my tests and for all of them have adopted the Act, Arr...
How To Disable Home Button or Kiosk Mode
Disable Home Button or Kiosk Mode
Hilos and Unit Testing in C++
Jason Zanderâs blog post on Unit Testing mentioned our Hilo project doing unit testing for Metro Applications in C++.
Hilo, C++, and PPL
We are making heavy use of the Parallel Programming Library in Native Code. I really love this. After our PPL books from last year, I have really been intere...
Another Hilo Release
We have done some major work on Hilo to get things in better shape. Right now we are waiting on the next release of Windows 8 and Visual Studio coming soon t...
Smoked by Windows Phone is Just Marketing
I am not a huge fan of the Windows Phone. It is a personal taste. I am not that into Metro. I keep seeing these things about being smoked by Windows Phone an...
Mooreâs Law Falling Over
Silicon is eventually going to give up the ghost on how fast we can go.
When am I ever going to use this?
There was a question on stackoverflow on how to write an iOS app purely in C. Of course, anything is possible given time and money. The question is, why woul...
Simple Capped Exponential Back-Off for Queues
Really cool post on Windows Azure Queues. This is something that would be easy to replace in our guidance on Windows Azure.
Configuring TeamCity 7 to build your VS2010 .NET project using Git repository
You are using Continuous Integration, Unit Tests and Code Coverage arenât you? If not, shame on you.
Hilo for Windows 8 - C++ and XAML
The original Hilo is a C++ application for Windows 7 using Win 32 and Direct X. Now with the introduction of Windows 8, C++ is making a comeback. It helps th...
C9 Live: Tuesday - Patterns and Practices Symposium
Iâll be there!
Zefrank Returns
So many great things in here.. you have to watch it.
Feeding My Need to Experiment
I was reading Alex Homerâs blog this morning (shame on you if you are not reading it), and it got me thinking: Do I still like to experiment?
Building Hybrid Applications in the Cloud on Windows Azure Release
It always takes a while for your project to go live on MSDN but it is alive⌠ALIVE!  We really put a lot of effort into this one and is the last in the serie...
Thinktecture.IdentityModel.* on GitHub
Thinktecture.IdentityModel.* on GitHub
S is for Service
It is also for Single Responsibility Principle.
Your Own Lightweight Robust STS in Windows Azure
The guys at thinktecture have come up with a cool way for you to have your own STS in your application that is simple and lightweight. Â These guys review our...
Building Hybrid Applications in the Cloud on Windows Azure RC
This is the 3rd in our series of Windows Azure Guidance. This one is our release candidate and we should be done this week. There is a lot of post productio...
Style Cop: The Effective Way
We use Style Cop to keep everyone honost  on our projects. It make it easy and integrates pretty well with ReSharper. I have never stopped to write up how we...
NSScreenCast
Ben Scheirman has started NSScreencast, a great set of screen casts on Objective-C and iOS / Mac development. I really wish this was around when I was learni...
An Easy Intro For How to Build a Fluent Interface
Jorge Rowies does it again. If you saw / liked the ACS Fluent Interface post, you will love to read how you can do the same thing for your API. Go read his n...
Unified Logging for Windows Azure
If you have a Windows Azure deployment, you owe it to yourself to check out Unified Logging for Windows Azure. Â If you worry about how you can monitor your a...
Fluent API for Windows Azure ACS Management
SouthWorks team created a fluent API for configuring Windows Azure ACS, making setup much cleaner than our previous rough setup program.
Creating a SSL Certificate for the Cloud Ready Packages for the iOS Windows Azure Toolkit
With the iOS Windows Azure Toolkit, you can use the ready made Windows Azure Packages that use ACS or Membership to manage users to Windows Azure Storage. Th...
Sucker Punched
My daughter was sucker punched on the bus after school.
2011
Using Facebook with ACS and Windows Azure iOS Toolkit
Simon Guest posted a way to extract your Facebook information from the ACS token. Â Now there is nothing wrong with how Simon did this, I am just updating the...
Thinktecture IdentityServer v1.0
If you are interested in Claims Based Identity you have to check this out. Â I canât recommend this enough. I am really looking forward to the Azure release!
A New Release for Windows Azure Hybrid Application Guidance
We have made some significant updates to the guidance. We have put everything into one solution with deep integration with Windows Azure Cache and Service Bu...
New Versions of our Windows Azure Guidance Available
Windows Azure is a moving platform. Â When we first released these guides, the SDK was young and we decided we needed to refresh to support the latest 1.6 SDK...
New Release for Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS
Today I just pushed a new version of the Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS to github (tagged v1.3.0). These changes include new versions for the Windows Azure To...
Latency Between Windows Azure Data Centers
A cool Windows Azure application that will tell you the latency between data centers. Check it out here.
Windows Azure Guidance V3 - Hybrid Applications First Drop
We have been working on a new guide that is focusing on Hybrid Applications with Windows Azure. The focus is connecting on premise and off premise applicatio...
Talking at Seattle Interactive Conference, November 2-3, 2011
I have been working on the iOS toolkit for Windows Azure lately. We are really close to another release (check out the develop branch if you are interested i...
Build Numbers in Xcode
Working on a Mac / iOS projects, I have been trying to come up with an easy way to bump versions when it goes out the door for testing or production. Mostly ...
Enterprise Library Windows Azure Integration Pack - Vote for What You Want
Grigori and team have opened up voting on there Enterprise Library Windows Azure Integration Pack. Go vote to provide the direction they should take.
An Agile Approach to Building a Mac Application
I have written quite a bit of articles on iOS and Mac applications using agile techniques (unit testing, continuous integration, etc) and in this post, I am ...
Windows Azure Samples Online
If you really like straight forward simple feature examples, this is the place to get them. You can download them here. They even list some the books / code...
More Windows Azure Goodness - StockTrader 5.0
A new Windows Azure end-to-end sample application that can be used locally, in Windows Azure or as a Hybrid application. If you are interested in enterprise ...
Windows Azure AppFabric Caching Tip - Use the applicationName attribute
We are working on updates to our Developing Applications for the Cloud content. In the first version we used a feature from MVC Futures to simulate View Stat...
A Guide to Claims Based Identity Hands on Labs on CodePlex
We just finished our last bit of testing on these hands on labs. They are a great companion to the guide that we released last year as an RC. One of the thin...
Posted talks from tech ed na 2011 and nt conference
It was a long 2 weeks yet really fun. I had a great time in Atlanta and Slovenia and both conferences. Â I have posted the slides from both conferences here. ...
Another Release for Claims Identity and Access Control - Drop 3
We just released our Release Candidate for the book that should be out in the next month. This is the second version of the original that includes new conten...
Another release for claims identity and access control drop 3
We just posted another drop for the Claims Based Identity Guidance. This will be our last drop before we release. We would love any feedback. This new drop ...
Local Windows Azure Toolkit >= 1.3 + Network Proxy + Local Deploy = Demystified
I was working on updating the TailSpin application to use Windows Azure Access Control Service (ACS) this week and ran into a small problem. Â I am using a We...
Multi Entity Schema Tables in Windows Azure
The source for this is available on github.
Objective-C Syntax Highlighter Reboot
I really like Syntax Highlighter. I like when the code is put in a pre tag and looks like something from the IDE. I had an Objective C highlighter for a prev...
Claims Based Identity - Orlando Virtual Brown Bag
I always love doing these online presentations. I posted the slides and a link to the recording for those that want to follow along. Thanks for the guys in O...
Unit Test Logging for Builds with Xcode 4 and Team City
One of the things I wanted to do after getting comfortable with the iOS/Mac platform(s) was trying to take my âagileâ ways to the platforms (for this post sp...
Claims Identity V2 Drop 2 Ready for You
As normal I am late to the party. We have been working hard on getting the Claims Identity Guide updated for a V2. Our big focus for this drop is Windows Azu...
Another Update for the Deployment scripts for Windows Azure
Tom Hollander called me the other day looking for some advice on deployment scripts for Windows Azure. Given that I have not got around to updating these for...
A Survival Guide to Scrum
My friend Mitch Lacy has been working on a book and is looking for feedback. If you ever wanted a survival guide to scrum, this is it. Go read, give feedback...
Come work with us at p&p
Ever wanted to change the world? You too could come and enjoy the fun we have every day. If you think you would like to do this go apply here.
Claims Based Identity with Windows Azure Access Control Service (ACS)
We are making good headway on our new project. We have started converting our current scenarios over to ACS. Eugenio has a couple of great posts on our fir...
Claims Based Identity and Access Control
Over the past year we have shipped a few guides:
Windows Azure & Windows Phone 7 Hands On Labs Available
After all the work we have done to ship the last 3 guides, we decided to go the extra mile and create some Hands On Labs (HOL) for each of the guides. These ...
2010
Windows Phone 7 Developer Guidance
Yesterday we released our guidance on Windows Phone 7. Â This is a continuation of our Windows Azure Guidance that we did previously. Â We took the survey appl...
Enterprise Library for Silverlight
Grigori posted the new backlog for Enterprise Library for Silverlight (so many found memories of Enterprise Library). Â Now you can vote for stories you would...
Software Still Sucks and I Am Stupid
So I am back on the kick to get rid of cable. Â I donât really watch anything except the cooking channel and the occasional football game. I decided to sign u...
Protecting Your Config in Windows Azure
Ever since we have done Windows Azure Guidance, we have not had a story for securing the web config in the cloud. If you want to be able to be able to chang...
Windows Phone 7 Developer Guide with Windows Azure
3 screens and a cloud is alive. Â We have been working the past couple of months on a project that takes our Second Guide of Azure and adding a Windows Phone ...
Enterprise Library Integration Pack for Silverlight
Grigori and team are looking for ideas to build an integration pack for Enterprise Library for Silverlight. If you are using Silverlight and Enterprise Libra...
Azure Guidance Part 2 Out Now
Go get it while it is hot. Our second version of our Azure Guidance is available on the web. The book should be available soon.
Debugging Unit Tests for the iPhone/iPad
Update 8/17/2010
Windows Azure Architecture Guide Part 1 is Live
It took a lot longer to get out than we hoped, but it is finally here. Part 1 is live (at least the landing page). If you have feedback, we would love to her...
There can be only One RoleEntryPoint
Last week we were finalizing the production of Windows Azure Architecture Guidance Part 1, when we came across a problem with the code. We had a few machines...
How a Checkbox Saved Paving My Machine
Last week we started working on the code for part 2 of our Windows Azure Architecture Guidance. Eugenio has a great writeup of our start to Part 2. We starte...
Paging with Windows Azure Table Storage
Steve Marx has a great post on paging over data that uses the Storage Client Library shipped with previous versions of the Windows Azure SDK. You can update ...
Speaking at ALT.NET Houston
As posted by Ben Scheirman, I will be speaking at Alt.NET Houston on Windows Azure. I will be doing a workshop on Friday. Come and Get You Head in the Cloud.
Windows Azure Deployment for your Build Server Part 2 : Deploy Certs
In Part 1 I discussed how you could use msbuild + PowerShell to deploy your Windows Azure projects. Another thing you might need to deploy is your certificat...
Azure Deployment for your Build Server
One of the more mundane tasks when working with Azure is the deployment process. There are APIs that can help deploy your application without having to go th...
Azure Facebook Toolkit Available on Codeplex
Before I came back to Microsoft I was working at Thuzi, a social media company. One of the things Thuzi does is create facebook applications for businesses. ...
Enterprise Library 5 on Azure
We spent some time in our first few weeks of the project getting Enterprise Library 5 (Beta 2) working on Azure. The first thing we did is took the reference...
Azure Guidance: Our First Release
After our first week, we have the baseline application that we will be converting to Azure in our first scenario. The site is live and we are ready to start ...
My azure setup
The first thing I did to get started on our new Azure Guidance project is setup the environment. Since I always seem to forget or people keep asking me what ...
Seattle Code Camp Talks
It is time for Seattle Code Camp again. There are plenty of great talks and if you are in the area you should go vote for the ones you will want to see. This...
Getting Our Heads in the Cloud
This week we start working on our Azure Guidance project. Many customers are looking to move to Azure and need good guidance on how to make the move to the n...
Enterprise Library: A History
With the release of Enterprise Library 5.0 beta 1 (including Unity 2.0) I thought I would give a (somewhat) brief history of the project. When we released ve...
That Was A Really Long Vacation
In May it will be 2 years that I have been in the Sunshine State (Florida). I am going back to Seattle and Microsoft at the beginning of February. I have met...
2009
Technical Debt
I am always amazed when people look at me weird when I mention Technical Debt. I thought this was a universal understanding. Well, you know what they say abo...
MonoTouch Comparison with Apple Tools
I have been playing around with MonoTouch trying to figure out if I liked the new approach to building Cocoa Touch apps. I decided to take a couple of the sa...
Orlando .NET User Group Talk - 12 Practices to be a Better Developer
Last week I gave a talk at the Orlando .NET User Group on Practical Software Craftsmanship - 12 Practices to be a Better Developer. Most of these 12 are just...
OmniFocus Sync Fix
I use OmniFocus on my phone and laptop to keep myself organized. I have had to look this up a couple of times so I thought I would put it up here. If you get...
Time to Move On (again)
As of September 11th the Mouse (Disney) and I are parting ways. It was a good ride just not the place for me. It was a blast and I met many people that I wil...
Singletons Are Evil Part 2
A while back I wrote a post about why singletons are evil. I still agree with that statement, yet after my comment on twitter today, I think I need to show h...
Unity Lifetime Managers for WCF
Drew and I were having fun getting NHibernate working with WCF and Unity. I had built upon my brethren Jimmyâs code from this article to making a session per...
newCloudApp(): Grand Prize Winner
After many long nights and to much Starbuckâs coffee, Kevin and I have finally done it. The waiting game is over and they announced today that we won! Go che...
This Code For Rent
Given the current economy and the housing market here in Florida, we have been talking a lot about renting versus owning a home. How does this have anything ...
Donât Cross the Streams
âThereâs something very important I forgot to tell you. What? Donât cross the streams. Why? It would be bad. Iâm fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What d...
My First Journey into BDD
Lately I have been trying to teach people TDD and running into the usual suspects of misconceptions. I decided that maybe it was about time to update my tool...
TDDFireStarter in Tampa
Wanted to give a big shout out to the guys putting on this event. Scott, Sean, the guys from Blue Spire (along with others) did a great job presenting this i...
Objective-C / Cocoa Syntax Highlighter Part II
I submitted my highlighter to the project as a patch yet they havenât taken it yet. I am hoping that it gets in soon enough.. until then here it is :
My Town
In May of last year I moved from Seattle to Florida. For about the first 2 months I lived in temporary housing in a condo in a little town called Celebration...
2008
Objective-C / Cocoa Syntax Highlighter
Decided to take some of the code for the syntaxhighlighter project and create a file for objective-c / cocoa. Going to be making a few updates to this post t...
Lead the Herd, Be the Nerd
The week of November 17th I decided to do something crazy: I decided to dive into Objective-C and Cocoa at the Big Nerd Ranch. I had heard many myths and leg...
Updating Diff/Merge in VSTS
I am tired of looking up this post every time I repave my machine. So here it is, the definitive list of tools and how to configuration them. Thanks to James...
NHibernate 2.0 with SQLite for UnitTesting
I spent the last month learning NHibernate and I am definitely a fan. I have been using SQLite for unit testing similar to Ayende in his post. The problem I ...
Sunstreaker Reservation: Cocoa Web Services With Complex Types
So far we have been doing what I do in most projects when I start, spiking some concepts. I canât say I have really time boxed myself on these because the wi...
Meme Time: Growing Up Geek
Brad Wilson decided to tag me geek.
IServiceLocator: Abstraction for your IoC/DI Container
Chris Tavares and others have developed an abstraction layer for your IoC / Dependency Container. This will help building your applications easier and changi...
Cocoa to Web Service: Sunstreaker Reservation
In my last post I started putting together connecting my Mac to my WCF web service. I decided to make this into a series in the spirit of MVC Storefront. I n...
Cocoa to WSDL Web Service or âHi PC.. it is me Macâ
A while back I read Kevin Hoffmanâs blog attempting to connect to a WSDL Web Service and it didnât work out so well for him. I donât know if he got any furth...
Sudo
I really love running as a non admin, although I really miss sudo from Unix. No longer, the smart peeps at PluralSight do it again with Su Do. Read more abou...
Snoop - A cool WPF Utility
When I was doing WPF back in the day, I used a very cool and useful tool called Snoop. This tool shows you the visual tree of your application and help you i...
Life Order of Operations
Customer, Company, Group / Team, Self: This is the order of operations.
DSL for Configuration - CSD
When we first built the configuration editor for Enterprise Library, we always wanted the ability to have people build their own configuration elements that ...
Enterprise Library on Mono
With my new fascination with the Mac platform, I have been playing with Mono and Cocoa. I just read this morning that Miguel de Icaza just noticed that Enter...
Space Invaders Invaded My Room
The wife knows how much I love my video games so she sent me some wall paper based on Space Invaders. When we finally get our new house, this is definitely g...
What is in a Parameter Name
I have been working on an extension to Unity for a while to do interception. It is basically a port that Brad Wilson and I did for ObjectBuilder and the Simp...