A long time ago, I thought about how to generate emails from a template and I reached out to a few developer friends to kick around several ideas. We talked about using excel merges, XSLT, regex, and writing a custom processing engine.
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7/2017
5
Projects for 2017 - Source Control
When I first started this blog back in 2008 I had a little memory stick where I would copy a “date named” zip file of my source code directory. Not the cleanest of solutions but it worked…sort of.
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7/2017
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Projects for 2017 - Nuget server
I started out with a long list of “Tech Debt”I wanted to clean up. I started with a virtual server solution which I still haven't finished because of….
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6/2017
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Side tracked and delayed by failed communication, flawed assumptions and the death of a battery
I was working on setting up a VM server when I realized. My desk was a mess.
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6/2017
4
Projects for 2017
I have been trying to figure out what I need and want to do for personal projects in 2017. Frankly it is a tricky exercise because I always derail my train of thought with little ohs and ahs.
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6/2017
4
Upgrading Windows Live Writer 2012 to Open Live Writer
Recently I replaced my Surface Pro 2 with a Surface Book. With that change I felt I should start writing again and I had a slew of topics in mind… So I went to download Windows Live Writer and found that it had reached the end of its lifecycle.
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6/2017
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Windows Live Writer Plugins
Long long ago, in a warmer state that is far far away… I started a blog. The reality of the blog was that I spent more time updating the code of the blog than I did creating content.
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6/2017
1
Unit testing, TDD or BDD?
It is always almost always on a Monday, when you fix that long standing (10 minutes) production bug that requires you to stand on your head, during a blue moon while balancing an egg on your foot to get it to render an image 1 pixel to the left when you find that someone just deployed code that broke every thing… except the image always renders in the correct spot. What broke and why?
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