Archives for May 2010

Missing a little FileAccess.Read and it doesn’t work

May 22, 2010

What is the difference between this code

using (var fileStream = new FileStream(settingsFilename, FileMode.Open))
{
    return ReadSettings(fileStream);
}

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f.lux Better lighting…for your computer

May 21, 2010

A couple of month ago I was introduced by a colleague to f.lux.

At first I thought, hum ok another software that will just eat some memory for nothing. But after 2 days, in fact 2 evening, yeah I work a lot in front of monitors, I was conquered and I recommend this tool to all like me that spend their days and nights in front of monitors!

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ASP.NET MVC 2, MSpec and Watin

May 19, 2010

The other day I posted about “Automated functional tests using Watin and MSpec” which we do at Jobping as a spike to automate our functional tests on our ASP.NET MVC 2 site.

Yesterday evening I was facing an issue in my base class WebBaseSpec which led to really strange side effects. Basically when I was running one unit test alone it was Green, running all or more than one unit test will fail miserably with the well known STA issue of Watin.

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Jobping Open Source URL Shortener. Goes to Version 0.5

May 14, 2010

We have updated our url shortener for Jobping. jobp.in has moved along to Version 0.5. While maintaining as little features as possible!

Since the initial version we have placed a restriction(web.configurable) on the domain names that the shortener will shorten. We did this so only domains under jobping.com would be processed by the shortener. We wanted to maintain the integrity of the jobp.in domain. With this in place you can be sure that if you click a link shortened by http://jobp.in  it will always go to our site www.jobping.com site.

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