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Monthly Archives December 2008

2008: A personal retrospective

Ah, the final day of the year. While many of you are partying the night away, I’m sitting at the computer, pondering what happened in 2008, thinking about what’s going to happen in 2009… and, as is often fitting of an evening after the house is finally quiet, enjoying the greatest invention of the modern [...]

Posted 31 December 2008 § Personal ‡ Comments (4)

Be cautious when using online services (or: you get what you pay for)

Earlier today (or yesterday, depending on your time zone), Ayende wrote about the consumer pitfalls of software-as-a-service (see Software as a Service is a matter of trust)… which made me think of some of my own “saas” experiences.
Back almost two years ago, CodePlex went down for a few days and suffered significant data loss when [...]

Posted 30 December 2008 § Technology ‡ Comments (2)

MSTest, DeploymentItem, and the frustrating RelativePathRoot setting

MSTest, Microsoft’s unit-testing framework, has the ability to deploy files to a predefined test directory via the [DeploymentItem] attribute. The documentation, however, includes this vague reference:

[DeploymentItem("file1.xml")] Deploys an item named file1.xml located at the RelativeRootPath. The file is deployed to the deployment root directory.
[DeploymentItem("file2.xml", "DataFiles")] Deploys an item named file2.xml located at the RelativeRootPath. The [...]

Posted 29 December 2008 § Technology ‡ Comments (0)

Weapons of Sole Destruction

The latest in military technology is here!

Shoe picture from http://www.shoeoutlets.com.

var addthis_pub = ‘bdemarzo’;
var addthis_language = ‘en’;var addthis_options = ‘email, favorites, digg, delicious, myspace, google, facebook, reddit, live, more’;

Posted 22 December 2008 § Liberty ‡ Comments (0)

Use WMI Code Creator to explore the details of WMI

One utility has paid incredible dividends over the past few days (not only because it is free): WMI Code Creator. This small Microsoft-provided gem allows you to explore the entire WMI namespace, and will generate code (C#, VB.Net, and VBScript) based on what you select.
If you’re using WMI, this utility goes right along-side the WMI [...]

Posted 09 December 2008 § Technology ‡ Comments (0)