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

• How to access the raw markdown source for a github wiki page

  Posted on November 30, 2012

  This is not entirely obvious (at least it wasn’t for me), but since Github wikis are actually backed by a proper Git repo, I figured it should be possible to access the raw markdown for a page by using Github’s https://raw.github.com/ style URLs. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • ddd
  • ef
  • eventsourcing
  • extensibility
  • gadgets
  • mocking
  • moq
  • msbuild
  • mvc
  • nuget
  • patterns
  • programming
  • t4
  • technology
  • vsx
  • wcf
  • webapi

• Documenting user interfaces in a mouse-less touch UI

  Posted on November 25, 2012

  “Old” apps rely on mouse pointing and tooltips to explain what a given button is for. Maybe there is text associated with the button, but you can only put so much text without wasting useful screen state. More so in a phone or tablet app. [Read More]

• How to exclude copy local referenced assemblies from a VSIX

  Posted on November 9, 2012

  When you add library references to project that are not reference assemblies or installed in the GAC, Visual Studio defaults to setting Copy Local to True: [Read More]

• How to change the target VSIX file name

  Posted on November 9, 2012

  When creating a VSIX or VS Package extension to VS, the default .vsix file name matches the project assembly name. Usually this is too long. So if you want to change it to be a short name, you have to edit the project file and add the following property: <PropertyGroup> ... <TargetVsixContainerName>MyCoolExtension.vsix</TargetVsixContainerName> [Read More]

• Electronics 101 for kids: littleBits review

  Posted on November 5, 2012

  I’m always on the lookout for cool toys that can empower my kids (9, 6 and 2yo) to be creative and break the mold of being just consumers of other’s ideas. [Read More]

• Static GitHub powered blog engine

  Posted on November 4, 2012

  Blog engines were the new “cool thing to write” after the fever of writing a new DI framework was over. It was kinda like the new “hello world++” example. Almost every single engine uses a database of some sort to keep posts and comments. Almost every one is not leveraging the web as a consequence [Read More]

• Visual Studio 2012 Developer Command Prompt Here

  Posted on September 5, 2012

  This is a very handy utility that I’ve used consistently for years now. I’ve been updating it since VS 2003 days. Originally from Scott’s blog, IIRC. [Read More]

• Tracer: the unified, dead-simple API for all logging frameworks in existence

  Posted on August 8, 2012

  We all need some kind of tracing or logging in our apps. We’d also like third party components to provide useful logging too. And if it integrates with whatever logging framework we happen to use, even better! [Read More]

• How to mock a generic repository

  Posted on June 27, 2012

  The short answer is: you don’t. You see, having a mocking library at hand (no matter how cool it is) doesn’t automatically make it the best tool for every testing need. [Read More]

• How to serve private S3 content from a CloudFront private distribution via signed expiring Urls

  Posted on June 21, 2012

  For this walk-through, you’ll need the most excelent CloudBerry S3 Explorer. Somehow, these guys manage to support in the UI more stuff than Amazon itself does in its management console . And you only need the free version. [Read More]

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