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Blog Was Moved

sologut — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 16:22:15 +0000

I’ve finally had some time to bye a domain and to move the blog.
Here is a new Url http://ayvazyan.net/

Sorry for any inconvenience.

Cheers!

Planning Poker

sologut — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 09:05:32 +0000

Planning poker is an interesting approach to make estimations. If you interested in it but didn’t have a chance to try it yourself, the following link will be extremely usefull http://planningpoker.com/.

It’s free and straightforward online tool to make estimations using Planning Poker approach. So now you don’t need to search physical cards to test Planning Poker approach. All that you need is just one moderator registered at planningpoker.com. Other developers could just specify their names.

Oracle VirtualBox: widescreen resolution

sologut — Sun, 29 May 2011 11:01:37 +0000

Found the following fancy way to set resolution on the guest machine:

vboxmanage controlvm "Home Premium" setvideomodehint "1280" "720" "32"

Note: You should install quest additions in order to get above command working.

BDD .Should() assertion syntax to NUnit

sologut — Sat, 28 May 2011 11:56:50 +0000

If you didn’t have a chance to review NUnit.Should library you definitely need to do that right now! (it’s available as NuGet Library Package as well)

NUnit.Should adds fancy BDD style syntax to NUnit. For example you could use 5.Should(Be.EqualTo(5)) instead of Assert.That(5, Is.EqualTo(5)).

TeamCity 6.5: Free for unlimited number of users!

sologut — Sat, 28 May 2011 10:28:03 +0000

Today I found that JetBrains released new version of the TeamCity. And that the most exciting – now it’s free for unlimited number of users!

So don’t hesitate to read What’s New and Download this awesome tool!

TeamCity offers the following features to the .NET developers:

Build and test any Visual Studio solution, as well as any other project using MSBuildor NAnt build scripts;
Run tests under any of the .NET testing frameworks out of the box, including:NUnit, MSTest, MSpec, xUnit and all Gallio – based frameworks. In many cases in order to make TeamCity discover tests in your build, you don’t need to make any changes in the build scripts, TeamCity will report tests automatically;
Choose any of the coverage enginescurrently available for .NET: NCover,PartCover or JetBrains dotCover. Again, you do not have to modify your build scripts, just turn coverage on in the TeamCity;
Work with TeamCity without leaving Visual Studio. Receive build notifications and browse build results in your IDE: all with navigation to the source code, and with code coverage highlighting if you use dotCover.

NEWSEQUENTIALID or GUID as a Primary Key

sologut — Wed, 04 May 2011 18:14:04 +0000

If you still don’t use GUIDs as a Primary Key for you tables, or if you do and use NEWID function, I have something to tell you.

Since MS SQL Server 2005 we could use NEWSEQUENTIALID function to create unique GUIDs.

It “creates a GUID that is greater than any GUID previously generated by this function on a specified computer since Windows was started” And it has the following advantages:

It’s faster than NEWID.
It’s optimize work with index pages.

I want to notice that GUIDs will be still unique accross multiple computers if the source computer has a network card.

So please don’t doubt it, GUIDs is a great option to be used as Primary Key.

I created a tiny script to play with NEWSEQUENTIALID.

Ruby… isn’t it great?

sologut — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:15:47 +0000

Yesterday I finished introduction course of the Ruby language at http://tryruby.org/. And you know it’s great! I really liked Ruby, but in addition I loved the tryruby.org itself. It’s just great!
So if you “Got 15 minutes? Give Ruby a shot right now!”

Today I done Rails For Zombies tutorials. Ruby on Rails is really amazing. Tutorials are also very good, but you know that zombie stuff…

HP dv9700 & Windows 7

sologut — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:56:21 +0000

After I installed Windows 7 on my HP dv9700 laptop, I noticed that I can’t adjust screen brightness… I looked for drivers on HP site, but it doesn’t contain drivers for Windows 7… I tried Drivers for Vista and it did the trick…

Code4Blog – VS extension.

sologut — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:59:25 +0000

Recently my colleague recommended to me the following quite usefull VS extension Code4Blog.
It could help you to copy your soure code (with Syntax Highlighting) from Visual Studio into your blog post or for example into TFS wiki.

Continuous LINQ & ReactiveObject

sologut — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 12:47:04 +0000

A while ago we started to use Continuous LINQ library. You know it’s awesome! The huge work for us making the ReactiveObject.
So you definitely should look at Continuous LINQ (if you didn’t have a chance already )