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Sinister Bug is Sinister

Can you spot the bug in this flags enumeration? In case you can’t spot it with the naked eye (I couldn’t, coworker Alex caught it.), watch this video. Pay attention to the binary display as I enter in the values of my enumeration above. Notice how the bit is steadily walking down the display? What [...]

SSDNUG Presents: James Thigpen – Moar Cats Please: Software Development at Cheezburger

The South Sound .NET Users group is proud to present James Thigpen on Thursday Feburary 9th at 7:00PM at the Olympia Center in the heart of downtown Olympia, WA. There is a lot of talk in an abstract sense about how agile software practices work. James is going to talk about how Cheezburger does agile [...]

Displaying a Map of the Current Location with MonoTouch

Today, I started spiking on displaying maps in iOS using MonoTouch. I wanted to discover the minimum amount of code needed to get the users current location via the iOS GPS services and then display that location on the a map. To get the devices current location you need an instance of CLLocationManager found in [...]

Getting Started Building iOS Applications with MonoTouch

I have been flirting with the idea of getting into mobile development in my spare time. I have went so far as to offer myself out as a developer to startups in Chicago to develop simple iOS applications in exchange for tool licenses. I am a firm believer in the idea that a craftsman buys his own [...]

Adron Hall Visual Studio AWS Toolkit & SDK Presentation Video

Overview During this presentation I will provide an overview of what is needed to get started using Visual Studio 2010 with the AWS Toolkit & SDK. We’ll also cover the basic design ideas behind the do’s and don’ts of cloud architecture and development. There will be some hands on coding (if you’d like to bring [...]

Testing Rendered Output of NancyFx with the Razor View Engine Gotchas

I have been working on a small sample application called SignMeUp. My intention is to practice concepts I am learning while reading Growing Object Oriented Software Guided by Tests. I am using the awesome NancyFx micro-framework my web delivery mechanism and Razor as my view engine. To start I have the following unit test. I [...]

Will Write iOS Application for Licenses

I am interested in getting more into iOS development. I have written some prototypes with XCode and MonoTouch. I really like MonoTouch and would really like my own license, so I can create some personal applications and play in the space. But sadly am unable to afford it at the moment. That is where you [...]

Test Driven Evolutionary Design with Entity Framework

NOTE: I am not an Entity Framework expert nor do I claim to be. I am a user of ORMs in the general developer space and this exercise is an attempt to map my workflow and knowledge to EF and it’s associated tools. Here there be dragons. Introduction I have been an ORM fan for many [...]

SCNA 2011 Brain Dump Edition

Corey Haines started the conference off a bit worried. Are we repeating the mistakes of the ’90? Are “learn to code in 24 hour” mentalities populating startups with unprepared developers writing tomorrows legacy code? He suggests reading Learn to Program in 10 Years instead. Businesses are desperate for for people who can code. If they [...]

Toji: The Psake Based, Nuget Powered Canned Build of Awesome

I have been using psake, the amazing PowerShell based automation tool by James Kovacs, for builds since discovering how awesome they are while working with the Russell Boys. I have a stock set of build scripts that I seem to copy and paste and modify as needed on each new project. Ian Davis posted a [...]

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