GarethStephenson

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Name: Gareth Stephenson
Date registered: March 24, 2010
URL: http://www.netdev.co.za

Latest posts

  1. A good day at the office — July 6, 2010
  2. A new initiative — July 5, 2010
  3. Achieving 100% code coverage when using NUnit and NCover — March 26, 2010
  4. Eclipse and Aptana make a formidable pair — October 21, 2009
  5. Subversion, free source control that works — October 11, 2009

Most commented posts

  1. Welcome to the NETDEV blogs! — 2 comments
  2. Achieving 100% code coverage when using NUnit and NCover — 1 comment

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Jul
06

A good day at the office

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In May this year, I was asked to take over as tech-lead on a project at the company I’m contracted out to. The current tech-lead resigned and decided to move on to greener pastures. What I discovered when I took over the reigns was a little unnerving… The solution is more than 5 years old, …

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Jul
05

A new initiative

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So, at the company that I’m currently contracted / outsourced to, we’ve decided to setup a guidance forum among a few of the senior developers here, some of them from the company of employ, some of them from external vendors (like myself). The purpose of this forum is to expose us to patterns, practices and …

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Mar
26

Achieving 100% code coverage when using NUnit and NCover

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Something that has always annoyed me when trying to get 100% code coverage when testing a method that throws an expected exception, is that it exits the method before getting to the end of it (obviously). An illustration will aid what I’m talking about… With the above setup, calling repository.GetProjects() throws an InvalidOperationException, as projects …

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Oct
21

Eclipse and Aptana make a formidable pair

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Around half way through this year, for a couple of reasons, I challenged myself to learn a new programming language or two. Namely, Python and Ruby made it to the top of the list and now I was on the hunt for a good IDE that would assist me while I was getting my Python …

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Oct
11

Subversion, free source control that works

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One thing that still amazes me about the majority of developers I meet, is that they either don’t use source control or (even worse) are still using Microsoft Visual SourceSafe on their projects! (Read about why SourceSafe is a BAD source control system here and here.) Whether it be on private work or projects at …

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Oct
10

Welcome to the NETDEV blogs!

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So, we’ve finally moved to our own dedicated server, with none of the restrictions of a shared hosting provider. Expect some exceptional blogs from some of the best software development and infrastructure specialists in South Africa. I’ll chip in a blog post or two as well. I’m really looking forward to providing some useful content …

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