To find out if a string contains a piece of substring, here are three simple ways of going about it in C#, just to name a few: String.Contains String.IndexOf where the return value is >= 0 Regex.IsMatch Out of curiosity I wanted to see if there was any no[...]

I'll be at cf.Objective() this coming week, manning the Railo booth - we're Gold sponsors again! - and, for once, not speaking! However, if you want to learn more about Clojure, especially how we're using it at World Singles integrated into CFML, feel fre[...]

Just a quick tech tip: if you have Skydrive (or GDrive or Dropbox or . . . .) you can get Git on any machine you have to use without having to install it on the machine.  Here’s how: Get the Portable Git package Create a directory on your cloud drive for [...]

Your application is live but it isn't quite behaving the way you expect - what do you do? You'd like to instrument the code, you'd like to be able to run parts of your production code in the live environment and look at the output, you might even li[...]

The growth of Agile and associated techniques like TDD and BDD has put a significant focus on delivering functional requirements via stories and automated tests. This is in part a side effect of the productivity of teams often being measured in terms of s[...]

Deactivating accounts and trying out life off-the-grid.

This morning I was wrestling with trying to make some Noda Time unit tests faster. For some reason, the continuous integration host we're using is really slow at loading resources under .NET 4. The unit tests which run in 10 seconds on my home laptop take[...]

On Saturday last I learned that my dad’s cousin, Donald Anthony Cornacchio had passed away.  It’s never easy to put in words how we feel about someone we’re close to and Tony (I always called him Tony—no one called him “Donald” that I know of and I think [...]