In a previous article I shot down a technical rabbit hole involving a slew of normally unrelated tech:
If you read that article, made it through with the only adverse effects being some slightly singed follicles, then I'd like to pull …
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Reviewing a previous blog led me down a rabbit hole. In this case, I dug up some old material on Alan Kay, more specifically, an article written by someone who attended one of Alan’s talks. I was struck by how the nuggets that resonated with the author of the …
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This is the third article in a series regarding NDepend, a code quality and static analysis tool authored by Patrick Smacchia. Previous articles in this series:
In the last article that I wrote on NDepend, I mentioned that the tool had picked up that …
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I wasn't aware of the fact, at least until recently, that it is possible to construct reasonably flexible web load tests using Visual Studio. Now, to be fair, I haven't had a solid opportunity to use a best-of-breed load testing tool such as Smartbear, so I don't really have anything …
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This is the second article in a series regarding NDepend, a code quality and static analysis tool authored by Patrick Smacchia.
The first article in the series can be found here.
Since writing the first article on NDepend there's been an update. A couple of days ago I was …
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This is the first article in a series regarding NDepend, a code quality and static analysis tool authored by Patrick Smacchia.
Some time ago I was fortunate enough to be granted a license of NDepend, a tool which has now achieved some level of fame as the de facto …
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Daniel Miessler has a plucky article on his Christmas present circa 2014, that is: some cool command-line fu courtesy of xmllint. Xmllint is nifty utility that allows one to easily validate XML documents, as well as some useful other things, like extract bits of XML documents.
I've talked about dpic …
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Some time ago, as part of trying to help a core line-of-business system team improve their effectiveness, we brought Driven Software in to provide expert guidance. Driven (for short) are experts in assisting teams and organisations in streamlining how they manage their development work, or, as they would probably put …
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I'd be remiss in not dedicating a blog post to this handy little utility, designed to allow Unix-heads to extend their honed command-line fu to XML. Let's demonstrate with a small example:
$ echo "/root/=something in here" | 2xml <root>something in here</root>
2xml takes line-oriented hierarchical data and converts …
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Strings in Ruby are a little different from those in the Python or .NET world. Whilst the latter are immutable, the former aren't. I remember in the days in-which the .NET Dynamic Language Runtime was receiving a lot of attention, the issue of how IronRuby strings would be reconciled with …
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I’ve had this idea knocking around in my head for a while now; how to get everything to be “keyboard-driven”. Ultimately one needs to draw a picture or two, but that invariably involves the mouse, and with the mouse comes the imprecise. There’s something satisfying about knowing that …
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I’m not your typical Windows user. I spend most of my time inside zsh, inside tmux, inside Windows Subsystem for Linux. My hands have a little bit of hermit in them, and prefer to stay home, only venturing out to my also-quite-sedentary pointing device of choice when absolutely necessary …
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As a follow-on from a previous article I wrote on revisiting the oft-cited FizzBuzz program, a colleague pointed me to an interesting site where one can get to see FizzBuzz written in a whole bunch of different languages, namely: “Rosetta Code”. Rosetta Code describes itself as a “programming chrestomathy” site …
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A kind-of universal “truth” that one becomes accustomed to as a programmer is that null aka NULL aka None means “nothing”:
#include <stdio.h> void main(int na, char** args) { printf("The value of NULL: %p\n", NULL); }
$ cc test.c && ./a.out The value of NULL: (nil)
$ csharp Mono …read more
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Being ever-so-slightly “OCD touched”, the fact that using quotes in my standard Vim setup doesn't result in them automatically being “smart-quoted” has been a buzzing background noise for some time now. For all RMS's perennial reminders of the evil of proprietary software, it's like the most compelling of vices, you …
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As I mentioned in a previous post, I'm going through a sort-of programming renewal. I've never had a proper opportunity to get my hands dirty with the language of the web (is “web” even a term that people use anymore?), that is HTML/CSS (and, of course, Javascript, although even …
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I consider myself to be lucky to have been introduced to computers at a young age. I forget now exactly when it was, but I certainly remember the first "taste" I had for computers and programming. It involved a Hewlett-Packard 85 and Hewlett Packard Series 80 BASIC. I was hooked …
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Parts 1 and 2 of a series about Regex discoverability in .NET led me to write a very small utility for "quick-and-dirty" regular expression matching (that is, of the same level of quick-and-dirtiness as sed or awk).
Introducing Runter:
// Find the line number of the last line in a file …
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In Part 1 I chatted about using regular expressions in .NET and grumbled a bit about how they're just not as "easy" as say, ruby, sed or awk or even bash:
#!/bin/bash
if [[ "The quick ..." =~ q[[:alpha:]]+ ]]; then
echo "Matched ${BASH_REMATCH[0]}"
else
echo "No match"
fi
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I love the .NET Framework, and I love C# too. Humm... I suppose I should be more honest with myself and say that I love the tooling which makes the .NET framework and C# lovable (Visual Studio and Resharper). As much as the tooling makes development an absolute delight, I …
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There's only one thing worse than setting development screening tests and having to mark them, and that is being required to sit a screening test yourself which happens to contain a typical question that you yourself set in a past test. Well... I guess that should be a good thing …
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For some time now, I've had a sort of a mid-life-crisis-induced fascination with all things entrepenurial and consequently now spend an appreciable amount of driving time listening to podcasts in that vein. One of them is the excellent Get Altitude podcast by Eben Pagan. Eben is clearly a wickedly smart …
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NOTE: This article was originally published in February, 2010. I'm republishing it (category: Revival) as a nod to content that drew interest at that time, as I said I would do at the point of reboot. I have not modified the content–it is identical to what it was when …
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NOTE: This article was originally published in early December, 2009. I'm republishing it (category: Revival) as a nod to content that drew interest at that time, as I said I would do at the point of reboot.
I’m going to say something shocking...
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The past two days, I've been part of my IT department's annual strategic conference–as a conclusion of the same we were promised a surprise guest speaker who turned out to be (huge surprise)–Kent Beck.
Kent presently works for Facebook, and when it came to question …
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The reboot article that I wrote recently referred to a promise I made about getting some of the original TLL content back. I've decided to approach that piecemeal and with the intention of doing a little massaging in the process (something akin to Martin Fowler's "retread").
Along those lines, I've …
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The now famous Jeff Atwood, in an era before the meteoric success of Stackoverflow, raved on about Meta (capitalized to emphasize its ironic notoriety):
Meta-blogging is like masturbating. Everyone does it, and there's nothing wrong with it. But writers who regularly get out a little to explore other topics will …read more
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I attended the Driven Software Unconference a few weeks ago which was structured more-or-less according to an Open Space model. One of the less-common technology-focussed topics of discussion was "Vim Tips and Tricks".
Unfortunately "Vim Tips and Tricks" quickly degenerated to an Emacs versus Vim advocacy face-off (as tends to …
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This week has been a little rough, life has its ups and downs, and everybody partakes willingly or not in the "downs" every now-and-again. I'm not going to bore you with the details, suffice to say that it hasn't been "life as usual". As such, this weeks post is slightly …
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If everybody else is using Markdown, I like to choose something else for drafting documentation, in this case: reStructuredText (aka RST). I guess I happened upon it because it's the default "go-to" markup choice for Pelican (even though Pelican does still support other standards like Markdown as well as AsciiDoc …
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