Philosophical GeekPhilosophical GeekDiscussions about .Net, C-sharp, Cpp, code in general, design, and occasional deep thinking about what it all means. Also my current projects and lego building. 
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UnitTest++
2007-07-12 14:57:00 I’ve got a great process using NUnit in all my .Net projects. However, at work we have a large MFC/C++ application that has NO automated testing. I’ve been planing on getting unit testing into it for quite a while, but finally decided this is the week to do it. It turns out that C++ unit ...
John Edwards Presidential Special Haircut!
2007-06-14 03:31:00 Seen outside a hair salon in Washington, DC. Snapped by my wife. More About: Funny , Presidential , John Edwards , John , Special
Excellent article on Rare Risks and Overreactions by Bruce Schneier
2007-05-18 14:21:00 I recently started following Bruce Schneier’s blog about security and security technology. He makes LOTS of excellent points. Too bad the powers that be don’t educate themselves sufficiently on this type of stuff before passing bad laws or taking drastic, pointless actions. I especially like his recent essay on over-reacting to rare events. Right on. More About: Article , Tech , Rare , Artic
Does Linux Cure Cancer?
2007-04-20 18:56:00 Maybe it does… More About: Linux , Funny , Cancer , Cure
Simulating a Server in .Net (C#)
2007-04-02 20:16:00 I recently had a need to simulate an FTP server connection in some unit tests. Rather than developing a full test-server, for this purpose, I could easily simulate an FTP stream by creating it in memory, and then passing that stream to the functions that expect it: public ... More About: Code , Server , Serve
Setting the minimum Windows version supported (C++)
2007-03-07 00:44:00 Recently, I was trying to use the Shell function SHGetFolderPath. Despite including the correct header file (shlobj.h), the compiler wasn’t recognizing it. My code looked like this: CString strPath; HRESULT hResult = SHGetFolderPath( NULL, CSIDL_APPDATA, ... More About: Windows , Code , Minimum , Version
Deep Computing Philosophy from Steve Yegge
More articles from this author:2007-01-24 21:36:00 If you haven’t read Steve Yegge, you owe it to yourself to do so. He only writes about once a month, but every single article is worth reading, whether you agree with him on everything or not. His latest is fascinating and incites some interesting pondering about the future of software…I’m going to have to ... More About: Philosophy , Tech , Computing , Deep 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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