January 2006 - Posts
Yesterday afternoon, Ryan , who is the biggest gadget guy I know, comes running into my office holding his cell phone out in front of him, "Opera released a browser for cell phones! It doesn't use WAP, WML, etc - it just browses HTML. On almost any cell phone!" Within minutes, I had gone to http://mini.opera.com on my phone, downloaded and installed the new browser, and was browsing a site to see how well it worked or didn't. Wasn't too bad, actually. A hell of a lot better than the WAP browser included...
As I mentioned before, this blog is actually just a small part of the entire site. This "suite" of sites also encompasses my wife's and children's blogs as well that I gave to them (along with their own domain names) as Christmas presents. I had needed to get my domain up and running again because it had been down for a few months since Online Focus closed down. Around the same time that I was thinking about getting this up and running again, I decided that I wanted to do my family's sites, too....
I've got a couple of things that I want to post about. I'm listing them out here more as a reminder to myself than anything else. My comments/review of the Dayton-Cincinnat .NET code camp that took place Saturday. All day Sunday, I spent time playing around with CruiseControl.NET, NAnt, NUnit, NCover, FXCop, Simian and NDoc, figuring out how it all works together with CC.NET and NAnt and making a plan for us to implement automated/continuous builds. I still plan on writing about my experience with...
"Could not determine the type on the left side of the dot" Dave Donaldson inadvertently demonstrated this VS.NET error message last night while giving a demo of VSTS. How, you ask? In his own words: Keep in mind that “Generate Method Stub“ can only be used on methods; it cannot be used to generate classes. If you try to generate a class from a unit test using “Generate Method Stub“, you get this hilarious error: “Could not determine the type on the left side of the dot“. http://loudcarrot.com/Blogs...
The Dayton .NET Developers Group and the Cincinnati .NET Users Group have teamed up to offer a day long event - Code Camp - this Saturday, January 21st at the Wingate Inn in West Chester. Looks to be a great event - hope to see you there. http://www.daytondevgroup.net/CodeCamp.aspx Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | kick it! | live it!
An introduction to the new Visual Studio Team System Developer Edition and a look at open source tools to help in writing quality software including FxCop, NUnit, and NCover. Dave Donaldson is the presenter. I will be there: http://cinnug.org/blog/archive/2006/01/10/7377.aspx Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | kick it! | live it!