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A while I had a problem with my old blog at goinsane , and as I was now posting regularly at devlicio.us I didn’t pay it too much attention. Recently I have had a few people contacting me about my old site not working, so I figured I best get it up and...

Published 10-27-2008 12:48 PM by Jak Charlton

Filed under: blogengine.net
Amazon EC2 Now Running Windows

Is this the future of web hosting? Certainly very very interesting We are excited to release the public beta of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) running Microsoft Windows Server and Microsoft SQL Server. AWS is also announcing that Amazon EC2...

Published 10-24-2008 1:52 PM by Jak Charlton
Frustration Friday - How NHibernate Can Waste Your Day

Well, OK I exaggerate slightly, it wasn't NHibernate that wasted most of my day, but the fact that we are having to use a slightly out of date version of 2.0 to allow us to use NHSearch . NHibernate Search is a great piece of code, it abstracts Lucene...

Published 10-17-2008 10:11 PM by Jak Charlton

Filed under: Castle, NHibernate, Rhino
jQuery Gotcha - Functions in Events

I just spent way too long wondering why my silly page kept refreshing itself, one of the forms on the page was submitting itself over and over ... I had been refactoring some Javascipt to allow me to use it generically across pages. My orginal code to...

Published 10-09-2008 11:43 AM by Jak Charlton

Filed under: JQuery
Resetting a TeamCity Password

I switched to a new machine yesterday, and had to reinstall my TeamCity notifier ... so off I went to our TC site to download it, and bam, I was asked for my login ... annoyingly TC maintains it's own password and user accoutns, and then matches these...

Published 10-07-2008 10:17 AM by Jak Charlton

Filed under: TeamCity
Finally a Good Use for Extension Methods - Unit Testing

I somehow missed this post by Ben a few weeks back , but it is a great example of extension methods making something much clearer than it was before - by putting common Asserts into a few extension methods. Leveraging simple extension methods to make...

Published 10-02-2008 8:01 AM by Jak Charlton

Filed under: TDD, Unit Tests
Testing Is Not Technically Hard, It Is Hard Because It Requires Clear Thought and Understanding

This whole " lets make TDD easier for the masses " thing is getting out of hand . Unit tests are not technically hard, as Udi points out, what is a test? Anything with TestFixture on it? It is not a technical challenge to write a unit test,...

Published 10-01-2008 9:46 AM by Jak Charlton

Filed under: TDD, Rants

October 2008 - Jak Charlton - Insane World

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Amazon EC2 Now Running Windows

Frustration Friday - How NHibernate Can Waste Your Day

jQuery Gotcha - Functions in Events

Resetting a TeamCity Password

Finally a Good Use for Extension Methods - Unit Testing

Testing Is Not Technically Hard, It Is Hard Because It Requires Clear Thought and Understanding