Author Archives: Mel Grubb

Book Review: Anathem by Neal Stephenson

Posted on May 30, 2009 by Mel Grubb

Have you ever been at a party and two drunk and/or stoned guys are sitting in the corner discussing the meaning of life or the nature of existence?  Would you have any interest in reading a transcript of that conversation?  … Continue reading →

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Joel Spoelsky just became irrelevant

Posted on February 18, 2009 by Mel Grubb

I was listening to the Stack Overflow podcast #39 last night while waiting for my daughter’s basketball game to start, and I’m pretty sure Joel just flipped the bozo bit in my mind.  He and Jeff Atwood were discussing test … Continue reading →

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Shuffle meme

Posted on January 23, 2009 by Mel Grubb

It’s been a while since we’ve done the "shuffle" meme, so I’ll start it off today.  The rules are simple: Put your Zune/Ipod/Media Player/Whatever in shuffle mode and write down the first 10 things it plays at you.  It’s okay … Continue reading →

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On Unit Testing, Mocks, and Isolation

Posted on January 22, 2009 by Mel Grubb

This isn’t going to be news to most developers, but I just thought I’d write this down anyway.  I was talking with a colleague yesterday about unit testing, and about RhinoMocks in particular, and came up with what I thought … Continue reading →

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Framework Design Guidelines (Second Edition)

Posted on January 17, 2009 by Mel Grubb

I meant to write about this book a while back, but got caught up in a bunch of projects and didn’t get around to it.  If you haven’t bought this book yet, you really should.  The first edition has been … Continue reading →

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Use DateTimeContext to put your code in a time warp

Posted on December 31, 2008 by Mel Grubb

On 12/31/08 all the 30 gb Zunes in the whole world died en masse.  This was attributed to a bug having to do with 2008 being a leap year.  Because the 31st was the 366th day of the year, something … Continue reading →

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I’m going to CodeMash

Posted on December 22, 2008 by Mel Grubb

Oh yeah, I forgot to post one of these:   Best… conference… EVAR!

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Generating DataContext Proxy Classes With T4 Templates

Posted on December 8, 2008 by Mel Grubb

A while back, my friend and coworker Kris Scott posted an article about using a proxy around DataContext classes to add support for isolation/mocking for testing purposes.  I won’t re-hash the basic idea here, as Kris’ blog entry explains it … Continue reading →

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Itty Bitty IoC (A C# IoC container in 100 lines)

Posted on November 3, 2008 by Mel Grubb

Since I posted my Teeny Tiny Template parser last week, I figured I’d keep going and post about my Itty Bitty IoC container as well.  I’m not going to attempt to define IoC or Dependency Injection in this blog post, … Continue reading →

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Teeny Tiny Templates

Posted on October 31, 2008 by Mel Grubb

On my current project, I need to "fill in the blanks" in some text file templates.  It’s nothing we haven’t all done before using a series of string.Replace functions, and they work just fine, but they’re not shiny enough.  Also, … Continue reading →

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