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Googleman is a fun and pointless application for launching Google.com in the style of the Batman 60s TV show , complete with spinning Google logo and sound effects. Now when a friend or co-worker says “To Google!” you can open your favourite search engine in style. Launch Google either from the Googleman tray icon or by hitting the Windows+G hotkey. Download Googleman Video Preview Technical...
Breaking the build server is Serious Business. Fortunately there are a set of rules put together by a group of wise and thoughtful men to encourage good build server practice. And beer. Build Server Rules The penalty for breaking the build is a beer. A broken build beer can only be written up while the build is broken. Once the build is broken, broken build beers will not be given until the build is...
Sometimes you want something working now. Code that is understandable, maintainable, extensible and performant has its place but there are times you need a piece of functionality ASAP. Enter the quick hack. Below is a quick hack I did recently for a temporary dev tool. This isn't a post showing off a piece of code's elegancy or simplicity. Instead while it functioned perfectly and took no time to do...
This post on handling different cultures in .NET really caught my imagination a couple of months back. Today I can proudly say that Json.NET passes the Turkey Test! Aside from poultry, the main focus of this Json.NET release has been fixing all the little issues in the LINQ to JSON objects (JObject, JArray, JValue, etc). NCover has been a great help highlighting methods that didn't have any tests over...
Google has unleashed its latest free search product onto the unsuspecting public: Google Code Search . What new wonders will come from combining this powerful new tool with the software development community? Will we use our knowledge to spot hidden bugs in one another’s software, eliminating software crashes and possibly saving the lives of those that depend on our programs? Or will coders around...
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