Tag Archives: HowTo

Java BDD with JBehave and Watij in Eclipse with JUnit

Posted by on 25 May, 2011 6 comments | Views: 4,408

The purpose of this post is to explain how to write BDD acceptance tests in Java using the gherkin syntax, run those with JUnit and implement them using Web Browser automation. Before I begin let me assure you that I …

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Client-Side XSLT Transformations with JavaScript

Posted by on 12 May, 2011 5 comments | Views: 1,704

I bet you haven’t ever thought of doing XSLT transformations inside the Web Browser on the client-side, but anyway it’s absolutely possible (cross-browser) and it performs pretty well as well, which shouldn’t be a big surprise since the browser is …

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Logging JavaScript Errors with ELMAH in ASP.NET MVC

Posted by on 8 May, 2011 4 comments | Views: 1,427

One final piece of information I wanted to add to my last blog post about setting up ELMAH for ASP.NET MVC is how to log Client Side/JavaScript errors with ELMAH. To do that we need to: 1. Because ELMAH works …

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ASP.NET MVC Magical Error Logging with ELMAH

Posted by on 8 May, 2011 8 comments | Views: 4,714

If you aren’t using ELMAH (Error Logging Modules and Handlers) you should be - http://code.google.com/p/elmah/ It’s the best thing since sliced bread for logging ASP.NET errors with practically zero effort. It basically plugs into the ASP.NET pipeline and logs all unhandled exceptions thrown and …

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Storing Date and Time in UTC and the definition “Today”

Posted by on 4 April, 2011 6 comments | Views: 537

Storing date and times in UTC on the server side is all nice and dandy, however there are a few gotchas, one of which the definition of “Today” when you a dealing with time zones. Say we are dealing with …

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How to import a database schema into SQL Server Express with Visual Studio

Posted by on 22 September, 2010 No comments | Views: 1,316

Today I needed to import my SQL Server schema into a SQL Server Express instance on a different machine. I only have Visual Studio on this machine and no SQL Server Management Studio installed, so it took me a bit …

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HowTo Disable the Unsigned Security Warnings on Windows Mobile

Posted by on 15 August, 2009 No comments | Views: 1,052

The security warnings when deploying unsigned applications from Visual Studio to a real Windows Mobile device can get very annoying. Thankfully they can be disabled with a hack and here is how. Using the Remote Registry Editor supplied with Visual …

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Multiple Network Connections at the Same Time on Windows

Posted by on 8 July, 2009 43 comments | Views: 19,024

In my scenario I have one Wireless connection for my Internet and one LAN connection to a small private network of my own with my NAS, PS3 and TV and I want to have them both at the same time. …

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Resize a VirtualBox Virtual Disk HowTo

Posted by on 30 April, 2009 4 comments | Views: 11,998

It is not possible to increase the maximum virtual size of a VirtualBox VDI HDD once it is created. The only way I found to do it is to create a new larger VirtualBox HDD and use GParted to copy …

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Git automatic smart ChangeLog merging

Posted by on 19 March, 2009 No comments | Views: 794

This might be old news for some, but there is a merge driver for Git that can automatically perform smart merges of ChangeLogs. I’ve used it for months now and it has always worked flawlessly. 1) Install git-merge-changelog which is …

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