http://www.brianlow.com Software Development Notes Tue, 26 Jan 2010 05:28:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A small test to help resolve the compiler warning: warning MSB3247: Found conflicts between different versions of the same dependent assembly. Point it to the build folder of your project and it will look for referenced assemblies with the same short name but different full names. using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.IO; using System.Linq; using System.Reflection; using NUnit.Framework; namespace ... http://www.brianlow.com/index.php/2010/01/25/find-conflicting-assembly-references/ A few custom shortcuts because I can never remember which Resharper command they are... Alt-N: ReSharper.UnitTest_ContextRun Ctrl-Alt-T: ReSharper.ShowUnitTestExplorer Ctrl-Alt-R: ReSharper.ShowUnitTestSessions Ctrl-Alt-E: ReSharper.UnitTest_RunCurrentSession http://www.brianlow.com/index.php/2009/07/28/resharper-shortcuts/ aae Assert.AreEqual aane Assert.AreNotEqual aif Assert.IsFalse ait Assert.IsTrue ain Assert.IsNull ainn Assert.IsNotNull setup NUnit [Setup] method teardown NUnit ... http://www.brianlow.com/index.php/2009/04/06/resharper-live-templates-for-nunit/ Here is a video of Roger Alsing's EvoLisa project evolving an image of the Mona Lisa using random polygons. The video was made using Roger's source code modified with Dan Bystrom's FitnessCalculator written in assembler. The program was changed to output a frame whenever the image improves by 5%. The ... http://www.brianlow.com/index.php/2009/01/26/evolisa-video/ Over the holidays I was infected with multiple viruses. One them was Trojan.Vundo.GCY. It's job is to download other viruses and malware. I had over a dozen files infected with various viruses causing popups and network slowdown. I tried 6 or 7 anti-virus / anti-malware products and found they had abysmally ... http://www.brianlow.com/index.php/2009/01/25/anti-virus-software-is-useless/ From the article Zebra Striping: Does it Really Help?: - no difference in speed or accuracy - 46% preferred it, 33% didn't care If you are going to use zebra striping, keep it subtle. Update: a followup post with more research confirming this approach. http://www.brianlow.com/index.php/2008/11/07/zebra-striping/ From Joel Spolsky's article User Interface Design for Programmers: - A user interface is well-designed when the program behaves exactly how the user thought it would. - Don't provide options unless the user really wants to choose - Use real-world metaphors - Affordances - Consistency with existing standards (good or bad) - Users don't read manuals - ... http://www.brianlow.com/index.php/2008/11/06/user-interface-design-for-programmers/ This NAnt target will build the project into a new folder with a (single) precompiled DLL. All source files and other non-deployment files are removed. http://www.brianlow.com/index.php/2008/08/31/build-aspnet-webservice-from-the-command-line/ WordPress 2.5 was released last month. Why can't we upgrade using Fantastico? It turns out BlueHost has started their own Fanastico competitor called SimpleScripts. I doubt we'll be seeing any new Fantastico updates. While Fantastico has had WordPress 2.5 scripts for at least three weeks, BlueHost's tech support claims they ... http://www.brianlow.com/index.php/2008/04/30/upgrading-to-wordpress-25-on-bluehost/ This procedure will lookup the maximum value used in a table then set the sequence to this value + 1. Based on code from from http://www.psoug.org/reference/sequences.html. CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE reset_sequence ( seq_name IN VARCHAR2, startvalue IN PLS_INTEGER) AS cval INTEGER; inc_by VARCHAR2(25); BEGIN EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'ALTER SEQUENCE ' ||seq_name||' MINVALUE ... http://www.brianlow.com/index.php/2008/04/29/reset-sequence-from-table/