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Daniel Cazzulino (Kzu, of Moq fame) has started releasing a series of screencasts in which he is designing a new IoC (or DI ) Container, which he calls Funq. You can read the reasons behind the series here on his blog . If, like me, you want to learn more about IoC Containers, this is a hell of a place...
Just found a funky little feature by accident. The release candidate for IE8 is out, and I’ve got it installed here at work. It’s really nothing special (in fact, Craig Bailey pretty much nailed it in his rant about Microsoft and complexity over here ), but it supports search suggestions as part of its...
Interesting afternoon. I arrived home to find my PC sitting at the login screen, as per normal, but when I clicked on my username to log in it logged in fresh rather than into an existing session (indicating that my PC had rebooted). Once I’d logged in I brought up Task Manager and noticed that the CPU...
A few weeks ago we discovered this funky little error starting to pop up around our company when trying to print a Reporting Services report: After a bit of searching, we discovered the problem. It turns out that the ActiveX control used to enable printing in Reporting Services had some sort of problem...
The post statistics for Mabsterama will be a bit skewed this year because I switched from Community Server to Graffiti at the end of June. This, therefore, is really the “stats post” for the latter half of 2008. Firstly, the top ten most-viewed posts published on my blog in 2008 since the end of June...
Have you ever tried to test code that uses an implementation of IDataReader ? Perhaps one that uses SqlCommand.ExecuteReader() to return an SqlDataReader . Such code is pretty hard to test because mocking or faking an IDataReader is pretty cumbersome. You’re forced to either mock every successive call...
This year mum and I did our bit to stimulate the economy by purchasing two Xbox 360s as Christmas presents: one from me to my brother and nephews, and one from mum to dad. Rather than paying around $400 for a pro console with a 60GB drive, we opted for the Arcade SKU without the hard drive. Picked them...
Brace yourself! It’s this year’s Christmas Haul! It’s only about 2pm but already we’ve seen everybody on both sides of the family, so I can now reveal the haul this year. I’ll start with this baby because I want to make sure you click the link and look at some of the interior photos on Amazon, because...
I first paved my work machine and installed Vista a little over a year ago. I thought it’d be fun for the one-year anniversary to fire up the Performance and Reliability Monitor and post a screenshot: As you can see (if you click on the image, at least) my reliability index is currently sitting on 8...
I don’t know how long this has been around, but I only noticed it late last week. Google has added a bit of metadata to their search results when a result comes from a forum (or a site structured similarly). Check out the results from this search : Notice the number of posts under each link? Google...