Unable to search in Lync 2013 21 May 2013 | 02:33 am

I recently started using Lync 2013, but with a couple of hacks to get it work with our Communicator 2007 server.  While trying to apply various registry hacks to get things like Outlook 2013 integrati...

Coding Fonts: Envy Code R, Consolas, and Adobe’s Source Code Pro in Visual Studio 2012 5 Oct 2012 | 10:41 am

Being a bit of a font geek (a little, not much), I am always on the lookout for a better coding font.  As a long time user of Microsoft’s Consolas, and Damien Guard’s Envy Code R, I was excited to try...

To My Awesome Wife 15 Feb 2012 | 10:29 am

Converting Brail View Engine pages on MonoRail to use the Spark View Engine 4 Oct 2011 | 08:48 am

Converting from the Brail View Engine to the Spark View Engine for MonoRail apps might not be interesting to many people, but here it is nonetheless. (We’re having to convert a project over due to swi...

Strangeness with NUnit runner instantiating attributes before running tests are run 15 Sep 2011 | 08:18 am

So Scott Koon and I going through converting a project from using MBUnit / Gallio to NUnit instead, mainly for the speed benefits, but also for complying with the direction of our development moving f...

Giles auto test runner for .NET v0.1.1.2 Released 12 Sep 2011 | 10:04 pm

Giles, my pet auto test runner project for .NET applications, has just grown up to v0.1.1.2 and been released on Nuget. Included in this release (and some previous releases) are: Most importantly wit...

Getting the Castle Windsor Quartz.Net Facility logging with your log4net configuration 10 Sep 2011 | 10:17 am

The Castle Windsor Quartz.Net facility is pretty awesome, it making getting Quartz.net up and running a fairly painless process.  However, when things go wrong, Quartz.net will be SILENT about it, unl...

Visual Studio Silverlight 4 Tools and Resharper Beta snafu & forehead slap 6 Feb 2011 | 07:54 am

While trying to install Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio this morning, I kept getting this crazy error message “Incompatible processes check” “Submit Exception”. After wasting about 10 minutes s...

Adding packages to nuget.org 27 Jan 2011 | 08:30 am

mmmmm, nuget. These steps were written from the mindset of adding a package to the nuget gallery on nuget.org that you require and happens to be missing. Anyone can add a package to nuget.org for any...

Putting Rake & Albacore in your git repo for instant build awesomeness 19 Jan 2011 | 10:15 am

Whilst checking out the latest and greatest from the machine.specifications repo, I noticed that their build setup uses Rake.. nothing really all that special there, I thought, lots of projects use Ra...