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Cross Platform Development w/ Xamarin & SVN Source Control on OSX

Hmm, rather ambitious title there Jammer ... Anyway, I've just started looking at building some iOS and Android (plus others…

Posted on: May 22, 2014
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Updating SVN in OSX Mavericks

Well that was an interesting hour wasted spent updating SVN. I found this write up on how to perform this…

Posted on: May 21, 2014
By: jammer
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Source Control Organisation

I'm not sure why people do this if you're about to start a system re-write. Especially if you are also…

Posted on: May 20, 2014
By: jammer
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Firefox 29.0.1 Update

What on earth has happened. I'm getting script errors left right and center making my favourite browser extremely lumpy. Seems…

Posted on: May 16, 2014
By: jammer
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Mechanican Keyboards – Ducky Shine 3

Well well ... I might be showing my age with this post but I don't care frankly. I recently broke,…

Posted on: January 30, 2014
By: jammer
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Code Review Hell

The subject of code reviews for developers can produce many reactions ranging from abject horror to complete disinterest. And that's…

Posted on: October 7, 2013
By: jammer
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CI Process – Why?

Why is having a CI process good? There are so many reasons why CI is good. I use it on…

Posted on: September 4, 2013
By: jammer
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MVC Deployment – JavaScript – ReferenceError is not defined …

This had me stumped for a moment. All the Javascript was there (linkable from bundle links in the page source),…

Posted on: August 31, 2013
By: jammer
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MVC – Display Version Number in Your UI

If you ever want to display the version of your app in the UI (useful in development with lots of…

Posted on: August 29, 2013
By: jammer
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Build Process – TeamCity, NUnit, dotCover & Octopus Deploy

I've blogged about TC a bit in the past but I've just setup a whole new build process for my…

Posted on: August 28, 2013
By: jammer
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Entity Framework Code-First Stored Procedures & Foreign Key Entities

I was recently looking at some changes I'd made to a project I'm working on using the Entity Framework for…

Posted on: August 16, 2013
By: jammer
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Using HttpClient to Send Dates in URL Using AttributeRouting

After doing a lot of reading it appears that it is possible to do what I was attempting to do…

Posted on: August 9, 2013
By: jammer
With: 1 Comment

C# Query String Builder

Here is a nice little extension method for building your query strings in C#

Posted on: August 7, 2013
By: jammer
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UE Boom

Just picked up one the beauties. I have to say that this is probably one of the best sounding Bluetooth…

Posted on: July 10, 2013
By: jammer
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SQL Install error occurred creating the configuration section handler

Seeing this error ... fear not ... Delete the "C:Users{Username}AppDataLocalMicrosoft_Corporation" folder (Replace {Username} with your user name I kid you…

Posted on: June 23, 2013
By: jammer
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Batch Files Really Are Your Friends … Svn Backups

Just finished a long coding session ... ??? BACK IT UP! set SvnAdminPath=C:Program Files (x86)VisualSVN Serverbinsvnadmin.exe "%SvnAdminPath%" dump --deltas P:Repositories<repo_name>…

Posted on: June 22, 2013
By: jammer
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DotNetOpenAuth OpenId & OAuth for .NET

I've been working very extensively with this library over the last few months and I have to say that it…

Posted on: June 6, 2013
By: jammer
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Subversion Global Ignore Pattern

I'm slowly building up this default Subversion global ignore pattern for my Windows & Xamarin Development on Windows & OSX. …

Posted on: May 24, 2013
By: jammer
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OSX & Parallels Visual Studio Debugging – F11 / F12

If like me your using Parallels on a mac for your development you'll find that debugging can be a pain…

Posted on: May 11, 2013
By: jammer
With: 16 Comments

MEF, IoC & Visual Studio Suppress Compiler Warnings

If you're even slightly like me I'm a bit anal about my build processes and codebase. I like to switch…

Posted on: May 10, 2013
By: jammer
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