/Recent content on The Code Jedi 2.0Hugo -- gohugo.ioen-UShugo@code-jedi.com (Hugo Dahl)hugo@code-jedi.com (Hugo Dahl)Wed, 27 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000/posts/cool-new-tool-for-devs-and-those-who-aren-t/Wed, 27 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000hugo@code-jedi.com (Hugo Dahl)/posts/cool-new-tool-for-devs-and-those-who-aren-t/A small company/startup which I have been following, Hello Code, since I signed up for their Exist.io service, have just put out a new tool. And this one is incredibly awesome for developers, but incredibly useful for everyone else as well. This tool is Larder.io, and it’s a bookmarking service - on steroids!/posts/how-not-to-transition-an-acquired-companys-site/Fri, 13 Mar 2015 00:00:00 +0000hugo@code-jedi.com (Hugo Dahl)/posts/how-not-to-transition-an-acquired-companys-site/In my current workplace, we use AccuRev as the source/version control system. I’ve recently found out that the company who is/was behind the product, presumably called “AccuRev Inc.” based on the “About” dialog of the product, was acquired by Borland, who was acquired by Micro Focus a while back (specifically 2009 for those so inclined to the details)./posts/when-what-you-re-listening-to-matters/Fri, 09 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000hugo@code-jedi.com (Hugo Dahl)/posts/when-what-you-re-listening-to-matters/About a week or two ago, I saw a discussion on Hacker News about How Surround Sound for Headphones Works. Linked within the article, as well as the source item’s page, was a free tool for OSX called Hajo’s Headphone Enhancer. I downloaded and installed it, without giving it much more thought./posts/using-the-coderush-test-runner-with-platform-specific-libraries/Mon, 13 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0000hugo@code-jedi.com (Hugo Dahl)/posts/using-the-coderush-test-runner-with-platform-specific-libraries/An issue appeared today for a co-worker, who was getting failing unit tests on one of our components, when the tests were being run from the CodeRush Test Runner. By the way, have I mentioned my love for CodeRush + Refactor? No? Well I do, to the point where I have a work license as well as a personal, paid for out of my own pocket, license!/posts/book-review-the-art-of-unit-testing-with-examples-in-net/Mon, 04 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000hugo@code-jedi.com (Hugo Dahl)/posts/book-review-the-art-of-unit-testing-with-examples-in-net/Title The Art of Unit Testing: With Examples in .Net Author(s) Roy Osherove (blog) Rating 5 / 5 Release Date May 2009 Publisher Manning Publications Book Site http://manning.com/osherove/ Publisher's support site Manning Sandbox Book Support Site http://artofunittesting./posts/quick-handy-dandy-1password-mac-shortcut/Thu, 23 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000hugo@code-jedi.com (Hugo Dahl)/posts/quick-handy-dandy-1password-mac-shortcut/Here’s a quick little handy shortcut for Agile Web Solutions’ 1Password product on the Mac. In the past, when I needed to get information about a credit card or a password for an account I have stored in 1Password, I would take the long route of either editing the item, selecting the field, then either read or copy/paste the value, or simply use the “Copy” option found when hovering your mouse over the secret field./posts/using-platform-specific-libraries-from-a-platform-agnostic-project/Tue, 23 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000hugo@code-jedi.com (Hugo Dahl)/posts/using-platform-specific-libraries-from-a-platform-agnostic-project/Scenario: You are writing an application or library which targets the AnyCPU platform, but reference an external library (such as LeadTools) which are platform specific (x86/32 bit, x64/64 bit) This situation is handled in several places, as there is no one unifying solution which applies to all phases of development./posts/using-expressions-from-windows-workflow-wf-designer/Tue, 16 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000hugo@code-jedi.com (Hugo Dahl)/posts/using-expressions-from-windows-workflow-wf-designer/Working through the book Beginning WF: Windows Workflow in .NET 4.0 by Mark J. Collins, there came a point where the next step is to add an “Add” activity to the workflow (Chapter 4 for those interested). The method given is to make changes directly to the XAML of the Workflow designer, and it would then appear within the designer when switching out of code mode./posts/multitouch-natural-user-interface-opportunities-for-a-bottom-up-approach/Sat, 25 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000hugo@code-jedi.com (Hugo Dahl)/posts/multitouch-natural-user-interface-opportunities-for-a-bottom-up-approach/Some time ago, Laurent Salat (@LaurentMT), who works in the R&D department of Tactineo, and member of the NUI group, wrote a paper (French version) about NUI development and suggested best practices specific to NUI development, called the “Bottom-Up Approach”. Thanks to Joshua Blake (@joshblake), who understood the general concepts and wanted to share them with the rest of the NUI development and design community, he called out via Twitter, for the help of someone who was fluent in both English and French to translate Laurent’s paper./posts/using-odata-from-objective-c-fixing-the-odatagen-nsrangeexception-bug/Fri, 09 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0000hugo@code-jedi.com (Hugo Dahl)/posts/using-odata-from-objective-c-fixing-the-odatagen-nsrangeexception-bug/Lately, I’ve been working on getting a small sample project up and running on the iOS platform, and using an OData endpoint for external data access. Fortunately, the OData site is an incredibly useful resource for a vast array of information, from both the publisher and consumer perspective. There is even an office Microsoft OData helper project for Objective-C which lives over on Codeplex./reading/Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000hugo@code-jedi.com (Hugo Dahl)/reading/Currently Reading Pro Expression Blend 4 - Andrew Troelsen Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution – 25th Anniversary Edition - Steven Levy Backlog - In no particular order Getting Things Done (2nd Edition) - David Allen C# in Action (3rd Edition) - Jon Skeet Pro NET 4 Parallel Programming in C# - Adam Freeman Dynamic ./tools/Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000hugo@code-jedi.com (Hugo Dahl)/tools/Main tools I use on a daily basis, which make my life and work all that much easier. Editpad Pro - An absolute MUST text editor. Column/Block selection, customizable syntax highlighting, code folding, regular expression search & replace. LINQpad - Invaluable resource to query databases, test LINQ statements, test code snippets, methods and even entire classes or apps, rather than another throwaway console app./references/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000hugo@code-jedi.com (Hugo Dahl)/references/ Site name About the site Github The de facto online git-based source control provider Stack Overflow Great community driven development Q&A site repl.it Multi-language REPL runner site with support for multiple languages and frameworks