Category: tech
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I've been blogtagged
Damn you Chris Donnan! OK, here's my 5 things you probably don't know about me...
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Announcing the eXtreme Tuesday Club, New York Edition
The original eXtreme Tuesday Club (XTC) is a weekly gathering of eXtreme Programming practitioners that has taken place in London for 8 years or so. It has provided a great community for like-minded software developers, managers and coaches to get together in a very informal way to discuss the ups and downs of using XP and other agile Software Development methods on a wide variety of projects in all sorts of organisations.
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Trying comments
People keep bugging me to enable comments on my blog, so I've decided to give it a whirl. My biggest problem with comments has been the spam issues, but I'm going to try the Akismet plugin for wordpress and see how that goes.
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Switching to Flickr
It wasn't long ago I was waxing lyrical about Picasa and Picasaweb. Not to be accused of sticking to my guns though, I've switched to Flickr, and there's a few reasons why. -
Resharper - The #1 must-have Visual Studio plugin
I've been using Resharper for a while now, in fact ever since it has its first public EAP. At the time it came like a breath of fresh air. I'd been used to using Jetbrains' other development productivity tool, IntelliJ IDEA, as a Java coder and the single most painful thing about .NET coding at that time was the lack of a decent automated refactoring tool and code navigator. Resharper went a big step to filling this gap.
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Del.icio.us bookmarks Firefox plugin : centralized bookmark management
I've always found bookmarks in web browsers a little frustrating. I use quite a few different machines, and bookmarks, out of the box, are not shared across them. This leads to me inevitably wanting to remember a bookmark on one machine when it's stored on another.
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Fixing Firefox 2 instabilities under OS X (in a nasty, hacky, way)
I've been running Firefox 2 on my main Mac OS X machine since it was released, and ever since then it's been annoying me by freezing up. The timings of such freezes are completely non-nondeterministic, sometimes it hangs before it's even finished loading all the tabs from the last session (which normally is a lovely feature of Firefox 2, by the way.)
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Rediscovering Web Feeds with Google Reader
Back in the Good Old Days (2002) there weren't all that many blogs around. I had one, Joe had one, and there were about 5 - 10 others I cared about reading. It was easy to keep up to date with these by just visiting the web pages now and then.
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Stubbing Event Listeners in .NET
I've been trying Rhino Mocks recently as an alternative to NMock for my unit tests' mocking and stubbing needs.
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Google Apps for your Domain - the IT revolution starts here...
I mentioned in my last entry that I thought that Google were making serious headway in the productivity software space. What did I mean by this? Well take a moment to think about what 90% of computer users use their humble beige boxes for 90% of the time. I'll give you a clue - email, browsing, scheduling, and reading or writing documents. Occasionally there's some spreadsheet, presentation and planning tools in there too, but actually most of what people do is those first 4.