Rjae Easton's blog

Parallel Zen for .NET Developers

I received confirmation of my talk on .NET 4.0 concurrency titled, "Parallel Zen for .NET Developers". The event is February 11 at Microsoft (Cambridge). Hope to see you there.

How to Cover Legacy Code

The most common question I get from developers is:

TDD sounds nice, but how do I deal with legacy code? There are just too many dependencies to deal with.

There is one true answer; one true path...

J.mp Accelerator

I just created an Internet Explorer Accelerator for the j.mp service (powered by bit.ly).

A Title Case Accelerator

Grammatically correct titles are akin to proper code style: they simply are much easier to read. For this reason and others I created the following accelerator and its backing service to generate grammatically correct titles from existing content.

Five Practices of the Sincere Developer

Five Practices of the Sincere Developer provides innumerable benefits, perhaps most importantly that of producing valuable outcomes. When you fully embrace these practices you are, by definition, a sincere developer.

Better Is.Gd IE Accelerator

The is.gd Accelerator published at IEAddOns has the same flaw as the bit.ly Accelerator: it does not include the document context. I created one that does.

Better Bit.ly IE Accelerator

I just created an Internet Explorer Accelerator for the bit.ly service. For some reason the original implemented link and selection but not document context.

PrintFriendly Accelerator for Internet Explorer

I just created an Internet Explorer Accelerator for the PrintFriendly service.

Synchronize Common Feeds List Between Computers

Google my title and you will find plenty of tools that happily synchronize the Common Feeds List for you. Heck, I was about to write a tool myself. But the solution I have used to synchronize My Documents between computers gave me an idea for the Common Feeds List. And it worked!

ReSharper Caching (Not) Hung

I assume I cannot be the only one that experiences the appearance of a hung ReSharper startup cache process. In fact I know I am not the only one: others on my project experience similar.

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