Fridathon: unstructured learning or hacking you can opt-in to do on any random Friday.

• Making extension methods amenable to mocking

  Posted on February 19, 2009

  The question of how to mock extension methods comes up frequently enough that I though I might give my opinion and solution to it (which does NOT include using TypeMock ;)). [Read More]

• How to install Intel WiFi Link 5300/5100 drivers for Windows 7 Beta

  Posted on February 17, 2009

  I just couldn’t resist going for the brand new beta which is being praised quite a bit when I got my new Lenovo X200. [Read More]

• Tip: how to tell a regular method apart from property getter/setters and event add/remove

  Posted on February 6, 2009

  Rather than typical code like: private static MethodInfo GetFirstMethodWithReturnType(Type type) { return type.GetMethods(BindingFlags.Public .Where(method => !method.IsSpecialName) .FirstOrDefault(method => (method.ReturnType != typeof(void))); } [Read More]

• How to upgrade Atom 0.3 feeds on the fly with a custom XmlReader for use with WCF Syndication APIs

  Posted on February 6, 2009

  Even now that Atom 1.0 has been approved and official for some time, there’s a feed every now and then that still uses Atom 0.3 (i.e. Google News! http://news.google.com/?ned=us&topic=w&output=atom). [Read More]

• Updated WLW Cross-Post plugin

  Posted on February 5, 2009

  Now that there’s an official installer of Live Writer that works on x64, I updated my plugin that allows you to cross-post a blog entry to a second WLW account, optionally summarizing the entry and always linking back to the source blog. I summarized the reasons why you might need to do this as well as the feature set in How to cross post entries across blogs from Windows Live Writer. [Read More]

• Funq: screencast series on how to building a DI container using TDD

  Posted on February 2, 2009

  Over the past few days, I spent some time recording the experience of building a dependency injection container using test driven development. It was a cool experience for me, and I hope you find the screencasts useful. [Read More]

• Funq Part VIII: adding support for initializer functions

  Posted on February 2, 2009

  Now available at Funq Part VIII- building a fast DI container with TDD [Read More]

• Funq Part VII: polishing a fluent API

  Posted on February 2, 2009

  Now available at Funq Part VII- building a fast DI container with TDD [Read More]

• Funq Part III: adding named services and refactoring to improve code

  Posted on January 30, 2009

  Third part is up! [Read More]

• Funq Part I: selecting a high performance approach and building the basics with few lines of code

  Posted on January 30, 2009

  The first screencast is up! I’ll post higher resolution downloads later on. [Read More]

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