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When you REALLY need testing

By Jake Hackl On 08/06/2010 · Leave a Comment

I came across an job posting today from the mailing list for my software engineering master’s program at the U of M that showed when you really need testing. I use TDD practices and more and more BDD but I don’t use them everywhere and all the time. To some I am a bad, bad, [...]

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InfoQ: Architecting TekPub – Moving from ASP.NET MVC to Ruby on Rails

By Jake Hackl On 07/09/2010 · Leave a Comment

Everytime I read another post about the simplicity and affordability of moving to Rails I go hmm; this time I’m going HMMMMM!

InfoQ: Architecting TekPub – Moving from ASP.NET MVC to Ruby on Rails.

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Tip/Trick: Enabling SSL on IIS 7.0 Using Self-Signed Certificates - ScottGu’s Blog

By Jake Hackl On 06/16/2010 · Leave a Comment

Tip/Trick: Enabling SSL on IIS 7.0 Using Self-Signed Certificates – ScottGu’s Blog.

Rebuilding my dev environment…always have to google this one.

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Unable to cast COM object of type ‘System.__ComObject’ – ahhh what?

By Jake Hackl On 06/08/2010 · Leave a Comment

With a new Windows7 VM on my MBP I have MSSQL Server 2008 R2, vs2008, vs2010…and sadly SourceGear Vault 3.5 which made it so SQL couldn’t connect to a server via the object browser.

Looked like this:

Unable to cast COM object of type ‘System.__ComObject’ to interface type ‘Microsoft.VisualStudio.OLE.Interop.IServiceProvider’. This operation failed because the QueryInterface [...]

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OS X Terminal displays a blank window instead of a command prompt | MacFixIt – CNET Reviews

By Jake Hackl On 04/23/2010 · Leave a Comment

OS X Terminal displays a blank window instead of a command prompt | MacFixIt – CNET Reviews. It is tough to get by without a reboot these days and I’m not savvy enough yet to know how to start mysql without terminal.

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