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Creating Windows Installers: Changing the Installation Path Using Registry Search
Joshua Flanagan had a question about my Web Applications and Virtual Directories post. He asks: "Do you know of any way to query the default website root on the destination machine, so that you can use that as your target deployment folder? For example, Read More...
Installing ShoZu on a T-Mobile Dash with Windows Mobile 6
If you have a smart phone and like to use Flickr to share your photos look into ShoZu . ShoZu is a great way to move the pictures taken on your phone to the Flickr. You take a picture and it asks, Send To Flickr? If you have a data plan or the next time Read More...
Is the Software Installed?
I went to update Windows Live Writer this morning because I am a technology whore and I like to run with the cool kids. The installer yielded a WTF basket of confusion that ended with me wondering if I had actually installed the software which, in fact, Read More...
Unit Testing a Web Service
Dovetail sells a web services for Clarify product that consists of a SOAP flavored web service and a handy client library. To make sure all is continuously well we have NUnit integration tests that exercise the client library making calls against the Read More...
CodePlex subverts our desires
I am really behind the curve on this but I was very excited when I heard that CodePlex is now supporting Subversion for source code control. After reading more closely it appears that they are merely providing bridgeware that allows you to use TortoiseSVN Read More...
MVC Code Crush
It feels a little warmer over here sitting around the Microsoft developer Alt.campfire. Microsoft just came on out and publicly embraced the MVC pattern for web development (think Rails). Nestled gently inside of Asp.Net they have planted a nucleus of Read More...
Virtual Server oh how I hate your un-patched bugs
We are using Virtual Server 2005 R2 a lot in our database platform testing. We have automated tests that start up virtual machines to do database platform testing. Quite handy. Configuring Virtual Server on an new machine can be quite a pain. We run into Read More...
Vista and Managed Performance Counters
While doing some work on RuleManager I was having trouble running integration tests on my development system which is 64bit "Business" Vista. I would invoke the test using TestDriven.Net and sometimes the test would run fine and sometimes it would just Read More...
DevTeach 2007 Begins
I am a lucky nerd. I work at a great company that believes in continual personal development and investing in their employees. Dovetail sent me to DevTeach and I am having a blast. The quality of the talks and general braininess quotient is very high. Read More...
Monorail Introduced
The deed is done. My Code Camp talk is over. It was a great experience working on my public speaking and polishing my understanding of Monorail. My talk had 2 parts. An introduction, that needs a lot of polish, and a coding exercise where I go from an Read More...
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