So my buddy Buckles was apparently frustrated with his blog at some point (just look at the title in the upper right). Apparently he forgot to change the title, and then left for a two week vacation. Now he’s on page two of a Google search for “Shit Paste”. Unintended consequences are sweet.
Have you ever thought to yourself “Hmmm… What I need here is an uber class that does database access, file access, logging, e-mailing, Amazon/Google searching, and xml processing”?
More importantly, would you take lessons from a person who wrote one?
Enter… The Utility Belt
Go ahead! Copy ‘n’ paste it and use it right away (actually, it takes about 1 minute to highlight all the code without using ctl-a). It’s 6116 lines of kitchen sink goodness for yer lernin’ pleasure.
My current employer is looking for a developer with solid C#/VB.NET, ASP.NET, and Microsoft Content Management Server skills. The position is located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada; you must live in Calgary (or be willing to re-locate) to be considered for the position.
Pangaea’s a solid company to work for, and has a close relationship to Microsoft. If you love playing with the latest Microsoft technologies, it’s the place to be in Calgary. You’ll get a highly competetive salary, full benefits (immediately, not after 3 months), a private work space with walls you can write on, the list goes on and on. If you have any additional questions, don’t hesitate to e-mail me.
I found MonoRail after following a link buried in the comments of Zac Bowling’s Hot or Not post from a couple of days ago. Now I’m wondering how I managed to go so long without hearing about it before…
Obligatory what the heck is he talking about quote from the Castle website:
MonoRail (former Castle on Rails) is an attempt to provide a port of Action Pack for .Net. The Action Pack way of development is extremelly productive, very intuitive and easily testable.
There’s also a few Flash Demos you can watch. Definitely worth trying out.
I worked with Ted O’Grady for a very brief period of time on the Inform Alberta website over a year ago. It was the first Agile project I’d ever encountered “in the wild”, and what Ted was doing with the project was fascinating to me. Imagine my surprise when I stumbled across his personal site today, and found out he has a blog.
Not only does he have a blog, but it’s a darn good one. I really like the short, concise writing style, and appreciate that he mananges to put something helpful or meaningful into every post. Go read. Now.
This paper by Jim Highsmith (Wow. I almost camel-cased his last name. I think I need a few days off…) provides a pretty diplomatic rebuttal to a few common objections people have with Agile Processes. The Cole’s Notes version:
I just found this post by Darrel Norton:
Keeping NUnit config files in sync
It details how to go about setting up a post-build event to copy an App.config file to the proper directory (while renaming it) so that your test assembly can get configuration information. I struggled with this for a few minutes today.
