July 2005 Entries
July in Sweden is a month when almost everyone (except me) is on vacation and Sweden
takes a break for a while. However working during this period is actually pretty sweet.
I get time to do things I been putting off all year, all those low priority issues.
OK, so it's quite depressing to when all your friends are on holiday. Anyway started
writing a blog post about a TDD revelation I had a while...
A couple of weeks ago I found my self in a situation where someone asked me "what
does it mean to be a consultant to you?". Not at all anticipating the question I answered
without really thinking and went on about top of the line technical knowledge etc.
Walking away from this situation I started thinking about my answer and what I think
makes a good consultant. And I don't think...
Kvällen var dock inte helt bortkastad trots SharePoint-strul. På vägen hem gled jag
förbi Östermalmshallen i Stockholm och för att handla på mig Kamben (tunna och små
revbenspjäll). Jag har nämligen en liten mission och det är att komma så nära Texas
Long Horns BBQ-ribs som det bara går, för de är grymma. De hade bara lite kamben
så det blev ett kalvspjäll också.
Kom hem...
Started out fair enough. Installed Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server to learn a little
and take it for a spin. Realized when I installed it that I accidentally installed
the MSDE along with it, figure I don't need it sense I already have a SQL server.
So I start uninstalling, no problems uninstalling in the MSDE and the WSS uninstalls
without complaining. At last I'm just going to uninstall SharePoint Portal Server.
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I'm just starting out with
dasBlog (and blogging to as a matter of fact). dasBlog where apealing to me because
there is no database needed, a real simple install. However I ran into a little problem
trying to access the comments page I got an exception:System.NullReferenceException:
Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at newtelligence.DasBlog.Web.CommentViewBox.Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e)
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Sat down today trying to get some legacy code under tests. I started out with a fairly
simple test... I taught.
[Test]publicvoid XmlGetsBiggerWhenCustomerInformationIsProvidedTest()
{
XmlDocument inXmlDoc =new XmlDocument();
inXmlDoc.LoadXml(SetUp_GetInXml());
CustomerFetcher customerFetcher =new CustomerFetcher();
XmlDocument outXmlDoc = customerFetcher.PopulateXml(inXmlDoc);
Assert.IsTrue(outXmlDoc.InnerXml.Length > inXmlDoc.InnerXml.Length);
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