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Recently when I needed to parse the twitter datetime format into a .Net DateTime I found this post on the web showing how to do it. However, the format string in the post is setup for non-us format so I thought I would share how to do it for US formatted datetime. const string format = "ddd...
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Today I was trying to wrap one of our .dll projects in a wcf endpoint and ran into an odd issue that took 3 hours to resolve and the mad skills of my co-worker James to help resolve. Long story short, when I would F5 my web project which was hosting our WCF endpoints I would get the following message...
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One of the thoughts I've been considering recently with chocolatey is consistency with packages and naming conventions as chocolatey continues to grow. It's fine to name packages by the app/tool name, that's both intuitive and expected. What I am more interested in is when an application...
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That’s a quick one. There’s been a new release of log4net recently that’s signed with a new key, and therefore is incompatible with old version 1.2.10. Therefore, due to near-ubiquity of the library in .NET space, it may cause some problems if you happen to have a dependency (direct...
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As software creators we don't get to decide what version of our tools / libraries that people use. If we try to force them, our users will go somewhere else. Update: What Type of Software This Applies To This post talks of tools, applications and libraries. Things that end up in the users hands....
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DropkicK (DK) has been in development for over two years and has been used for production deployments for over a year. Dru Sellers originally posted about DK back in 2009 . While DK isn’t yet as super easy to grok as some of the other ChuckNorrisFramework tools and offers little in the idea of conventions...
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“Because everyone wants to kick their database, but sometimes kicking your database is a good thing!” Many would not argue that you should version your code, and few would argue against versioning your code in a way that can lead back to a specific point in source control history. However...
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“If only there was some way to quickly and silently install applications and tools on my windows machine.” Chocolatey is kind of like an apt-get, but for Windows. It is a machine level package manager that is built on top of NuGet command line and the NuGet infrastructure. Jason Jarrett recently described...
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The title says it all. If you can’t wait grab the binaries here (Windsor with Castle Core and facilities) and here (just Core) . Nuget package will hopefully follow soon. What’s in it? This is a major release and there’s quite a lot of new features, as well as some significant changes...
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I’m lazy. I remember reading somewhere that that was a desirable trait to have in a developer. I’m not sure where though, and honestly it’s just too much effort to bingle it. This laziness came to the forefront recently as I was playing with Node. In my last post , I showed you how to spin up a quick...
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Yesterday I started a discussion about adding a new command to nuget.exe . It ended in creating an extension to the command line that behaves in the same way without having to dive into the nuget code base or add more complexity to it. I haven’t seen any blog posts or documentation surrounding...
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Anyone who has been doing any type of .net development knows you can subscribe (MSDN on event subscription ) to an event as follows: Subscribe to an Non-Anonymous Method ... // instance class w/ an event myClass.DoSomething += HandleDoSomething ... // the method which handles the event privat evoid HandleDoSomething...
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Last weekend I went up to Iowa Code Camp in Cedar Rapids and had the opportunity to do two presentations, one on NuGet and one known as the Automation Tools Roundup. ICC is one of my favorite conferences every year. It is twice a year and I try to make it to at least one of them. The people that...
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Less maintenance. Less work to package during your automated builds. Too easy. Remember Our Old Friend _PublishedWebsites? You’ve probably seen the _PublishedWebsites folder when building websites in automated builds. If not you can stop paying attention now. Still with me? Great! So you know how it...
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Recently we had a contest to see who could beat my time to get from no code to deployed. Thanks to everyone that participated and everyone that thought about participating in the contest. Most Creative From Zero To Deployed Contest Extended! Unfortunately there were not enough entries to award the most...