It’s been a few weeks since I’ve taken the Jean-Paul Boodhoo’s Nothin’ But .NET training course and I’ve had enough time and recuperate and reflect more on the experience. Although I really enjoyed the course and am glad I took it, it seems wrong to just give a blanket endorsement of the course. I just [...]
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What are Subversion hooks and why would you use them? Hooks are extension points that allow you to add behavior at various stages of the commit process through an executable file. The most useful one is the probably the pre-commit hook because it allows you to prevent a commit from occurring, thus providing a way [...]
As part of the Nothin But .Net training experience, JP Boodhoo encouraged us to try out a few non-standard naming conventions that has adopted recently. The one that intrigued me the most was his convention for naming interfaces. Rather than taking the Microsoft sanctioned approach of adding an I prefix to all interface names, JP [...]
Here’s a fun productivity enhancing tip that I picked up from JP at the Nothin But Net course I just took. If you’re much of a gamer, then Typing of the Dead, an old Sega game that was released in 1999, will probably make you wince due to the poor graphics and absurd storyline. In [...]
This is a screenshot of my current desktop. I exported a snapshot from the ReSharper Default Keymap pdf and set it as my desktop background. I got the idea from Jean-Paul Boodhoo when I asked him how he had become so proficient at using ReSharper.
I woke up this morning in a semi-zombie state and just learned that tonight will be our “late night”, which means we’ll go until 2 or 3 am instead of midnight. Nevertheless, I’m still enjoying the course. Here’s some thoughts about the second day of the course (yesterday). Actions, Predicates, and Funcs…Oh My – We [...]
I’m working on 2 hours of sleep last night thanks to my 17 month old, so I thought I would record some of my thoughts about my first day of training yesterday before they are completely lost in the haze of sleep deprivation and the blur of day two. Delegates are like onions: there are [...]
