Ben Scott's blog

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29 Nov 2014: Get running fast on GitHub and BitBucket
11 Oct 2013: Git - dealing with line endings
03 Oct 2013: Add .\sqlexpress alias to SQL Server

Posts

06 Mar 2018: Limit an element to N lines
02 Mar 2018: Copying React props to a child component
19 Jul 2016: Vertical whitespace - a fairy tale
11 Feb 2016: Dumping custom emoji from Slack
05 Nov 2015: Minimum Viable EF
02 Nov 2015: Notes on Kerberos and Active Directory
28 Aug 2015: React - Early thoughts
27 Aug 2015: Bundling and deploying Azure WebJobs in a Web App with Octopus and Nimbus
27 Aug 2015: Build pipeline for React
30 Jul 2015: Ubuntu Desktop in AWS EC2
28 Jun 2015: Controller scope in Angular JS directives
25 Jun 2015: Setting up TeamCity and GitVersion for an open source project
22 May 2015: A short, executable rant on why I dislike object initialization syntax
15 May 2015: Simplicity - pattern matching in C#
24 Feb 2015: Class and method invariants and validation
21 Feb 2015: Karma and Mocha for AngularJS testing
30 Jan 2015: Cleaning and simplifying the Gulp pipeline
30 Jan 2015: A useful build pipeline using Gulp and Bower
27 Jan 2015: Hello World! It's Gulp!
17 Jan 2015: A convention test for projects referencing other project references instead of NuGet packages
12 Jan 2015: Xamarin Studio borking on a Unified API project
07 Jan 2015: Access IIS Express from another machine
13 Dec 2014: Set up TeamCity on an Azure virtual machine - Redux
07 Dec 2014: Uninstrumented statistical .NET profiling using open source tools
26 Jun 2014: Resolving a list of type registrations from Autofac
08 Jun 2014: MonoGame Shooter - Converting tests to BDD style
07 Jun 2014: MonoGame Shooter - Better boundary detection for the player
27 May 2014: Adding dependency injection to a MonoGame application
25 May 2014: xUnit tests in a Windows 8.1 Store App
24 May 2014: Up and Running with MonoGame
29 Apr 2014: Telerik's WPF RadScheduleView - Double-click to create an appointment gotcha
07 Apr 2014: A Quick AutoFixture Demo
06 Apr 2014: The Greatest string.FormatWith() Extension Method Implementation In The World
01 Apr 2014: Using IDisposable for entry/exit pattern
27 Mar 2014: Uninstalling Azure Service Bus after (accidently) deleting the databases
27 Mar 2014: A list of my favourite Visual Studio shortcuts
16 Mar 2014: Set up TeamCity on an Azure virtual machine
29 Jan 2014: Setting an image source using a trigger (WPF and Caliburn.Micro)
24 Jan 2014: Git cherry-pick from another repository
10 Jan 2014: Top/Bottom docking in XAML / WPF
20 Dec 2013: Set property System.Windows.ResourceDictionary.DeferrableContent threw an exception error in WPF
14 Dec 2013: Starting out with convention tests and data-driven tests in xUnit
12 Dec 2013: Try This One Simple Trick To Drastically Reduce Method Test Complexity And Reveal Intent Using Default Arguments
05 Nov 2013: Nested view models using Html.EditorFor
05 Oct 2013: Git workflow with feature branches and rebasing
03 Oct 2013: Add .\sqlexpress alias to SQL Server
27 Sep 2013: Naive offline cache for a UIWebView in iOS
22 Sep 2013: Hook up push notifications using APNS and Xamarin.iOS
21 Sep 2013: Enabling Windows authentication in IIS Express
20 Sep 2013: Push a Git repository to TFS
20 Sep 2013: Application support images for iOS applications
17 Sep 2013: Access IIS Express from another computer
06 Sep 2013: Web API JSON serialization of enums pro-tip
05 Sep 2013: JavaScript namespace generator
31 Aug 2013: Reset The World!
31 Aug 2013: How to run DbUp in an AppHarbor ASP.NET MVC application
31 Aug 2013: Convention tests - Controller actions require an attribute
22 Aug 2013: AppHarbor - Early notes
09 Aug 2013: Scope for MonoTouch UIAlertViews
23 Jun 2013: UTF issue when running Jekyll on Windows
17 May 2013: Add an alias to SQL Server
28 Feb 2013: Troubleshooting SQL Server 2008 R2 install on Windows Server 2003 with Windows Platform Installer – WMI service
11 Feb 2013: Create a shared mailbox in Office 365
08 Feb 2013: TGIF – 8 February 2013
21 Jan 2013: Dropbox as a service on Windows Server 2008 file server
21 Dec 2012: TGIF – 21 December 2012
30 Nov 2012: GitHub branches and pull request workflow
12 Nov 2012: Setting up an open SMTP relay in an intranet with hMailServer
02 Nov 2012: TGIF – 2 November 2012
31 Oct 2012: Super-simple data access layer
29 Apr 2012: Setting up MEF
07 Feb 2012: Fixing "iertutil.dll was not found" after a Windows XP update
23 Dec 2011: Running etherpad-lite from source on Windows
24 Jun 2011: Explicit, parameterless constructors for WCF DataContractSerializer
29 May 2011: Closing Mercurial branches
09 May 2011: URL namespace access rights when developing WCF hosts
05 May 2011: Restoring/repairing a Mercurial repo from a live .hg copy
04 May 2011: SSH for pushing large repositories to BitBucket
22 Dec 2010: Unit testing a WinForms ListView - getting the SelectedItems property
18 Dec 2010: Replacing a method on an instance in Ruby
13 Dec 2010: Quick fix for Skype messing around with phone numbers and ABNs on websites
01 Aug 2010: Google via Ruby console tool
12 Jul 2010: Mercurial - Undoing an uncommitted merge
19 Apr 2010: Accessing anonymous object properties using reflection
21 Dec 2009: Cliche – an extremely simple view template engine for jQuery
09 Dec 2009: Form validation with jQuery
29 Nov 2009: Deleting items in a table with AJAX via JQuery
13 Nov 2009: Declaring a class with inheritance and a generic type constraint in C#
27 Sep 2009: Subversion on a USB stick
07 Nov 2008: Tip - list all actively listening ports on a Windows machine
19 Aug 2008: ORDER BY items must appear in the select list if the statement contains a UNION operator
04 Jun 2008: External graphics in XSL:FO not sizing correctly
18 Mar 2008: Editing past log comments in Subversion
04 Mar 2008: Logical XOR operator in C#
21 Feb 2008: Could not find resources exception when modifying a form class in Visual Studio .NET 2003

Links

29 Nov 2014: Get running fast on GitHub and BitBucket
07 Aug 2014: Compare branches in TortoiseGit
26 Mar 2014: Git - reapply a commit using cherry-pick
23 Mar 2014: Xamarin Studio can't find my Android device
11 Oct 2013: Git - dealing with line endings
08 Oct 2013: Git - ignore local changes to files
08 Oct 2013: Git - amend last commit message
22 Jun 2011: Visual Studio "Find" results in "No files were found to look in. Find stopped progress." - Stack Overflow
04 May 2011: ConvertIcon!