jhollingworth

Using extension methods with MSpec

Posted May 7th by admin. •

I was playing around with using extension methods within my mspec tests and think I have found a nice way of descriptively setting up variables: [gist id="393381"] I am not too sure about the scanability of the tests since it requires a bit of jumping around to find out what is going on however I do like that the test is more English than C# :)

categorized as MSpec, ideas.

Machine.Specifications.BestPractices

Posted on May 7th by admin. •

Every once in a while a new evolution of tools comes along which makes the development of software substantially easier, simpler and funner. This happened with WPF, Monorail/ASP.NET MVC, Moq, ...

Email Address Validation in .NET

Posted on March 5th by admin. •

As Huddle grows we start to see more and more of the edge cases of the world. One bug I had to fix to our email regexp so that it ...

My crazy (probably very stupid) idea for an mvc language

Posted on March 4th by admin. %

I'm not certain why but for a while now I've really wanted to write a sort of python/ruby-esque DSL on top of ASP.NET MVC. I am probably going a little ...

.NET Library Directory

Posted on February 26th by admin. •

About a year ago @davidpadbury and I were sitting in a pub drinking and pondering problems with the .net world. One major issue we had was there was ...

Programmatically adding log4net appenders

Posted on February 23rd by admin. •

I needed to programamatically add a log4net appender at runtime, the docs for all of this are all a little fuzzy so just for future reference [sourcecode='c#'] class FileCleanerAppender : RollingFileAppender { public FileCleanerAppender() { File ...

Let’s stop talking about alt.net and starting writing code

Posted on January 21st by admin. 6

I recently read Ian Cooper's blog regarding the current state of Alt.net. There has (in my opinion at least) been a growing sense of disillusionment within the alt.net ...

FluentIoC 0.1 Released!

Posted on January 2nd by admin. %

A major problem I've found at huddle was what a pain in the arse configuring IoC using xml is! So instead of moaning about it I decided to write ...

New blog

Posted on January 2nd by admin. •

Now that i'm not a student anymore I've decided that I can actually afford the £3.41/month to host my own blog so I'm moving from my old blog to ...

ASP.NET Calender Validation

Posted on December 5th by admin. •

Today I need to validate that a user had entered a date in an asp.net calender only to find that there were no solutions for it so for future reference, ...

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