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More Quick Wins...

Over the last month or so, I've gotten to work on some cool new stuff and see some new technologies - I recently updated my blog theme, went to DevConnections, and have focused on testing and CI at work. Here's some new stuff I discovered (or at least new to me): SVN 1-Click Setup - I decided...

Posted to Work vs. Play (Weblog) by Todd on 11-25-2007
Thoughts about DevConnections Sessions

UPDATED: 11/17/2007 - added some links to speaker & session info and fixed a couple of typos Since I'm going to have to review this at work, I thought I'd get some thoughts together about the sessions I attended at DevConnections last week. WSS Overview (HMS202) and MOSS Overview (HMS201...

Posted to Work vs. Play (Weblog) by Todd on 11-13-2007
A Nice Trick for Caching by User

I wrote a quick overview of caching (and state) the other day and saw a great VaryByCustom tip on Steven Smith's blog today . VaryByCustom allows you to use a global.asax method ( GetVaryByCustomString ) to return a string that will act as your VaryBy key. In Steven's tip, they return the current...

Posted to Work vs. Play (Weblog) by Todd on 10-29-2007
Quick Wins - SQL Unit Testing

I've been looking into unit testing in SQL as a quick way to check out the effects of database changes. I've been spending a fair amount of time working on SQL-only type changes - things that unit or functional tests won't catch either because we don't have a .Net API or front end application...

Posted to Work vs. Play (Weblog) by Todd on 10-27-2007
Caching In 10 Minutes

This is some stuff I've been meaning to post to the wiki at work because I've been asked a lot of questions about it, but just haven't gotten around to yet. It's a little bit intro, but I couldn't find a good snapshot anywhere else, so here we are. (It's also a test post with...

Posted to Work vs. Play (Weblog) by Todd on 10-25-2007
A Better Developer - Two Months In...

Two months ago, I posted about being a better developer in 6 months just like everyone else . Since I want to keep this going, I’m grading myself periodically to see where I stand… 1. Blog more. Not Changed: Exactly the same as last month… “OK, I really said every other day, but I have improved. Hey...

Posted to Work vs. Play (Weblog) by Todd on 10-15-2007
A Few Quick Wins...

I've been thinking alot lately about all the great ways that are available to get “Quick Wins” in coding projects. (I guess I kind of started with Client-Side Logging post.) There's all kinds of UI coolness out there: Thinking of a calendar? Try Timeline instead. CSS has tons of hidden goodies...

Posted to Work vs. Play (Weblog) by Todd on 09-05-2007
Client-side logging

With the advent of Ajax comes the pain of client-side development. Tools for Javascript just never seem as robust as their server-side counterparts. The VS2k5 IDE is actully a decent debugger, but what do you do when your end users get the error? On the server, we just catch it, and use Log4Net to alert...

Posted to Work vs. Play (Weblog) by Todd on 08-16-2007
A better developer in 6 months

Jim tagged me. So after many months of a quiet blog, I'm back to share my take on the whole thing that's been running around the world . Here's my list, and I think its even in order: Blog 3 times a week. Every day is just not realistic for me. Every other day or so I can do. I think. Finish and expand...

Posted to Work vs. Play (Weblog) by Todd on 07-29-2007
The dreaded "Operation Aborted" bug in Internet Explorer

I've been brushing up on my JS and DOM work recently after not flexing those coding muscles for a while. I have some AJAX work on my plate at work and a quick demo a few weeks ago made me realize how much I'd forgotten. Anyway, some playtime with the Virtual Earth SDK and I ran into a crazy bug. IE doesn...

Posted to Work vs. Play (Weblog) by Todd on 02-22-2006

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