Month: June 2013
27
Jun
Refactoring and Short Names
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There’s an old saw in certain segments of the programming world that sometimes it’s way better to use a short name for a variable. The...
24
Jun
DevExpress
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The problem I had with CodeRush turns out to have been caused by an overlooked Continue While statement. Sorry about that, DevExpress. I’ll hand it...
24
Jun
Getting Green
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The answer to my coloring quandary in a previous problem turns out to have been solved reasonably easily. I started looking at checkResult to see...
21
Jun
FitLibrary: Implementing Custom Parsing with CombinationFixture
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Cucumber be damned. I’ve figured out how to do what I needed to do in Fitnesse to test Excel sheets. This is pretty hacky, but...
21
Jun
FitLibrary: Implementing Custom Parsing with CombinationFixture
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Cucumber be damned. I’ve figured out how to do what I needed to do in Fitnesse to test Excel sheets. This is pretty hacky, but...
20
Jun
Sketchdump
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I’ve been drawing a lot lately. This is (most of) the result. Most of the “pencil” sketches (the ones that are smooth and clean because...
20
Jun
A Glimpse of That “Other” Life I Was Talking About…
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Got this in the mail today for my pre-nascent game company, Perfect Minute Games.
18
Jun
Buying a House in Sin City East
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You know nothing, Mike Burton. That’s what my head has been telling me for weeks now. I have been trying to dot all the I’s...
17
Jun
On Coming Home
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I came back to Newfoundland this year after six years living and working in Ontario. It has been exciting to see all of the activity...
17
Jun
Somebawdy’s Gettin On My Nerves
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Today I Learned that Acrobat Reader has a hook in Windows Explorer to pre-cache PDF files found in the current directory. This would be fine...