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26
Jul
The Best and the Good
by mgmb
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The best is the enemy of the good. The internet tells me Voltaire said that. In programming circles, we call it the 80/20 rule –...
16
Jul
VSS Admin Stupidity
by mgmb
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Visual Sourcesafe, as I have mentioned, is horrible. Sometimes, however, it takes a moment to really appreciate just how horrible. Today I Learned that, despite...
16
Jul
VSS Admin Stupidity
by mgmb
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Visual Sourcesafe, as I have mentioned, is horrible. Sometimes, however, it takes a moment to really appreciate just how horrible. Today I Learned that, despite...
11
Jul
Service Alchemy
by mgmb
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Sometimes a good service rep is all you need to transmute a bad experience into a good one. I had the opportunity to visit O’Neill...
10
Jul
1 == 1
by mgmb
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So this was the key to my problem, and I’m sure Java people in the audience are laughing at me for missing it: @Override public...
10
Jul
1 != 1
by mgmb
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This might be the most frustrating thing about FitNesse and FitLibrary. How is this even possible? Don’t they match? DON’T THEY!?! More work to come…
27
Jun
Refactoring and Short Names
by mgmb
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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
by mgmb
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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
by mgmb
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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
by mgmb
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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...