Keeping git repositories in sync is usually and easily done using git pull and git push. However, for those rare times when you don’t have network connectivity (or limited connectivity) and still need to transfer the contents of a repository to somewhere else, there’s git bundle.

The bundle …

I stumbled upon an interesting little detail as I was using a regular expression in a unit test case in a C# application. I had a multiline string and was searching for a particular substring in multiline mode. The newlines in the string were Windows newlines, meaning CR followed by …

When you build a GUI, all lengthy operations that can be triggered by the user should take place on a background thread so that the GUI doesn’t become unresponsive. Why would it? Well, it’s because all GUI operations take place on a single thread - the GUI thread (the …

I apologize in advance for being blunt! And it’s not really as bad as the title suggests. But my point is that every decision you make, whether it’s about a small piece of isolated code or the architecture as a whole, may not stand the test of time …

One of the things I do like about VB.NET is XML literals. Given that XML is so common, it’s really a great idea! Here’s a tiny example:

Dim x = <p>Some test.</p>

I thought I’d write about how XML literals can be abused to create …

According to Merriam-Webster, a diacritic is:

a mark near or through an orthographic or phonetic character or combination of characters indicating a phonetic value different from that given the unmarked or otherwise marked element

Right! :-) In the Swedish language, there are three common letters with diacritics, namely å, ä and …

I just ran into a tiny little problem and thought I’d share the solution.

I was writing some tests in which I was mocking a dependency using Mock. My test code was roughly equivalent to the following (based on an example in the Mock documentation on magic methods):

>>> sub1 …

I currently work in a VB.NET project with a customer, and what amazes me is that I over and over again get the feeling that the language is designed to be easy to work with, but at the same time there are so many aspects of it that behave …

When you write unit tests, you occasionally need to mock away dependencies of the subject under test (SUT). By far the easiest way to do this is to use a mocking library, which has the added benefit that it allows you to verify the behavior of the SUT by inspecting …

I’m not a big fan of Subversion but I’m madly in love with Git! So much that when I have to use Subversion, I create a Git repository within my locally checked out Subversion branch. This is really easy to do, and only takes four simple steps:

1. Navigate …