Okay, so this is another follow on point from the TDD session at Code Camp Oz . So the question was around what happens if I write crappy tests, does writing tests matter if I write crappy tests? As with anything it's garbage in -> garbage out. And if you write crappy tests, chances are you're going...

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So this post might be a few days late and a few days past people caring or searching for information, but there was part of me that has been a bit unmotivated on the blogging front - and instead I'm twittering a bunch more, and there was part of me that just wanted to collect some thoughts before I actually...

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So last night we had a slightly earlier AWDNUG meeting, due to some changes the guys wanted... unfortunately not bringing more people in, like we had hoped (a few people mentioned a change in night would make it easier for them to attend). There was however, a fantastic presentation by Mabster about...

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Today at work Mabster and I were discussing Mocking Frameworks after viewing Scott Hanselman's MVC videos. Then Matt brought up that he had heard about this Moq framework that uses Lambdas to do some mocking and wanted to try it out. So he played with it for a while and was trying to get an SqlReader...

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Seriously, watch the Scientology video that he is in, skip through the parts with Tom Cruise and just watch the voice over and graphics at the start, the logo, and the end voice over and graphics at 8:50 and tell me that it isn't just totally the same as the ads and tv news segments from the movie Starship...

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So I've been keeping pretty quiet lately, mostly from a lack of anything too exciting in my life, but I thought it might be interesting to discuss what I've been doing at work on and off for the last month. Basically, a while ago I got our support guys to make me a Build Server on our Virtual Server...

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So I'm watching Mike Huckabee on Letterman and he just told a story about when he was running a radio show in Arkansas and had been on the radio show from 5am and talking and playing music for two hours, and then someone called in asking why they weren't on the air. He had left the transmitter turned...

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Yesterday I spent quite a bit of time scripting up in SQL and into a stored proc some code that I tend to rewrite a bit. What it does is shifts a lot of product from one order to another, or back into stock. This was something that probably should have been in the system from the start, but somehow had...

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So earlier this week I had my first contact via Live Messenger from my blog (you can contact me via my bio page!). Basically a guy wanted some help extending Graffiti, and wanted some advice. The most I could do in this instance was point him back to the graffiti-beta mail address at Telligent, but if...

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I think I'm getting a little addicted to playing with Graffiti's Chalk system. Well, not really, but I wanted another go, so I decided to do something else that I thought Graffiti was missing. A while ago @ScottW asked the question Are Trackbacks (still) Worth It? Well I think they are to some degree...

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