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a blog about my life (twitter.com/jhollingworth)
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Using extension methods with MSpec
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 ...
Machine.Specifications.BestPractices
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, OpenRasta and ...
Email Address Validation in .NET
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 would support ...
My crazy (probably very stupid) idea for an mvc language
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 crazy and ...
.NET Library Directory
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 no centralised ...
Programmatically adding log4net appenders
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 = "Foo.log"; AppendToFile ...
Let’s stop talking about alt.net and starting writing code
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 community of ...
FluentIoC 0.1 Released!
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 a new ...
New blog
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 here!
ASP.NET Calender Validation
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, if you ...