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Re: Azure Tips and Tricks Part 74 - Working with Azure Storage Blobs and Files through the Portal

thnk2wn — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 16:37:51 -0000

I find the portal leaves a bit to be desired in terms of browsing blob storage. They could make open / preview much easier than having to download or copy URLs. Usually end up resorting to the Storage Explorer app - https://azure.microsoft.com...

Re: Should Code Review Include Manual Testing? Depends!

thnk2wn — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 14:12:57 -0000

I feel like generally testing in code reviews isn't the spirit or norm for most. However I've been in different environments where QA resources are limited and overwhelmed and developers often tend to be lazy and do very minimal testing without thinking through different real world scenarios.

For many simple code reviews testing may not be needed. But if the changes are to logic that can't be easily verified without running the app, if the changes are to high risk areas, if it's a new feature, or if something looks "off", I tend to favor at least some manual testing as this tends to reduce back and forth between Dev and QA groups.

Re: How to find latest version of MsBuild in powershell

thnk2wn — Thu, 21 Sep 2017 18:49:13 -0000

Cool. Another option is using the VSSetup powershell module:
https://www.powershellgalle...

Or Invoke-MSBuild:
https://www.powershellgalle...

I went with a hybrid recently:
https://geoffhudik.com/tech...

Re: A Criticism of Scrum

thnk2wn — Tue, 27 Oct 2015 16:37:21 -0000

Very well written, detailed post of many of the problems companies having doing SCRUM, and some good humor as well.

My only constructive criticism is that it feels like nearly all a criticism of the problems and not near enough of potential solutions to those problems, alternatives, and tradeoffs; to that end it may appear as a rant to some. So if we drop something from SCRUM or drastically change it, it may solve some problems but create others, so if those things are still needed in some way, what are ways of doing it better?

This speaks well from our point of view as developers but how do we reach that good middle ground to optimize something that works well for management and developers?

Re: Supporting multiple Visual Studio versions in a single extension

thnk2wn — Tue, 30 Jun 2015 13:35:24 -0000

Do you create the project as a visual studio extensibility project still or just a normal class library and then select the appropriate VSSDK nuget package?

Re: ngTagsInput - AngularJS Modules, Plugins and Directives

thnk2wn — Fri, 13 Jun 2014 19:03:11 -0000

Cool. A nice addition would be drag and drop reordering

Re: Troy Hunt: 40 inappropriate actions to take against an unlocked PC

thnk2wn — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 14:29:58 -0000

Install a remotely controlled wallpaper changing app :) http://www.geoffhudik.com/t...

Re: Graffen's Blog | Using NuGet to avoid having DLLs under source control

thnk2wn — Mon, 09 May 2011 10:07:17 -0000

Nice. Works great for me after I created Nuget.exe.config for a proxy tweak (
http://nuget.codeplex.com/d...
). Nuget is growing on me; my main complaint is that various packages like Ninject download like 8 different versions to each of the Packages folder. Don't like wasting the hard disk space.

Re: Using T4 to Auto Generate web.config Files

thnk2wn — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 17:36:35 -0000

Thanks. But how/where are you passing in that csv filename into the constructor of the generator for it to read?

Re: Using T4 to Auto Generate web.config Files

thnk2wn — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:50:19 -0000

The Generator problems was I didn't have T4Toolbox.tt included in my project; didn't realize it existed or was needed at first. Still not exactly sure on the excel part but like this approach

Re: Using T4 to Auto Generate web.config Files

thnk2wn — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 15:16:31 -0000

Can you expand any on how you did this? After installing T4 toolbox and the tangible T4 editor, I get the below compile error using your scripts as provided. I did try wiping out the custom tool file properties.

Compiling transformation: The type or namespace name 'Generator' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

Also are you just creating and including a regular XLSX file? Where does that filename get passed in to WebConfigGenerator's ctor?

Re: MVVM Light Messaging

thnk2wn — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 17:23:41 -0000

I didn't like MVVM Light's ViewModelLocator and it's static nature - see http://blog.roboblob.com/20....

Though now that I see without that the destination ViewModel won't be instantiated to listen for the message

Re: Setting up MGTwitterEngine with YAJL 1.0.6 for iPhone development

thnk2wn — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 22:38:25 -0000

See http://files.getdropbox.com... but note that (a) this is from a stripped down copy of my app and (b) it may not be at this location long. Also you'll still need the include files (usr/local/include) etc.

Re: Setting up MGTwitterEngine with YAJL 1.0.6 for iPhone development

thnk2wn — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:55:58 -0000

In the end that part didn't end up mattering in my case. I didn't see his update regarding the compiled YAJL static library for iPhone and libYAJLIPhone.a. I was able to just use that and copy the YAJL header files to the include directories and set the project search paths. I haven't tested out the code but I have it compiling now.

Re: Setting up MGTwitterEngine with YAJL 1.0.6 for iPhone development

thnk2wn — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 19:04:48 -0000

Did you get around this problem? I've tried changing the folder permissions of yajl/build/src/CMakeFiles/yajl.dir but somehow it keeps getting set back to readonly.