Author: Cory Foy

Last night Brian Harry announced the new version of the TFS power tools. One of the really cool thingsin this release is the TFS Best Practices Analyzer. It parses through your configuration to make sure everything is set up correctly. I got to work with the tool several months back and found it to be invaluable.

The IronRuby team has been making great progress, and the stuff they are doing is very cool. I thought it would be a neat exercise to dive into what happens behind the scenes to take a snippet of Ruby Code and execute it. First, you’ll need the latest version of the source from RubyForge (above). Go…

On Friday, Jim Newkirk announced a new .NET testing framework called xUnit.net. So far, I really like the looks of it – things like getting rid of [TearDown] in favor of making the test disposable and adding Assert.Throws instead of [ExpectedException]. And while I agree with a lot of the reason’s behind Jim’s post, and his…

Since around 2000, I’ve owned my own domain and pretty much had my email on it since then. When you own your own domain, one thing you get control over is the email that is sent to it. So pretty early on I made a decision that whenever I did business with a company that…

Shiver me timbers! The vagabonds that be showin’ up fer the meetin’ tonight can laugh if they laugh on th’ other side, but they’s be as good as a dead man’s chest for not knocking their noggins fer today’s International Talk Like a Pirate Day! ARRR!

Tomorrow night (9/19/07) I’ll be speaking at the Space Coast .NET User Group on Ruby for .NET Developers. I’ll be covering Ruby as a language, Rails, RSpec, IronRuby and the DLR. The meeting starts at 6:30pm at a place called Charlie and Jake’s which sounds like a fun place. Hope to see you there!

The past 2 weeks have been incredibly hectic. It’s all been leading up to this weekend, when we close on our house tomorrow and move in Saturday. My wife and I were talking last night, and realized that we’ve both averaged 7 moves in 7 years, 5 of which were since we got married at…

For those of you running Visual Studio 2005, Tuesday’s updates pushed out KB937061. If you had installed Crystal Reports as part of your install, everything was probably hunky dory. However, if you don’t have that installed, you may see a problem where Windows Update does not report the patch as being installed. The product team…

Today’s post comes from a tutorial I’m working on for a customer who still does a lot of XML/XSL stuff. One of the more challenging things to do in XSL1.0 (which is what most browsers support) was getting a distinct list of values from a set of nodes. Exslt has a good article on the subject,…

This afternoon I happened across a CodeProject article on creating the Sierpinski Triangle in Silverlight. It looked interesting enough, and I haven’t played much with Silverlight, so it sounded like a match made in heaven. I started first by clicking the demo link, which led me to the “Download Silverlight” icon. The problem? I thought…