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Are your unit tests idempotent and independent? »

Written by James  Profile

Posted Mar 23, 2011 / http://jamesmckay.net

A shocking response to my questions about baseless merges in Team Foundation Server »

Written by James  Profile

Posted Mar 11, 2011 / http://jamesmckay.net

Abstracting your ORM is a futile exercise »

Written by James  Profile

Posted Mar 03, 2011 / http://jamesmckay.net

On named branches in Mercurial »

Written by James  Profile

Posted Feb 22, 2011 / http://jamesmckay.net

Google is not your doctor »

Written by James  Profile

Posted Feb 16, 2011 / http://jamesmckay.net

Team Foundation Server is the Lotus Notes of version control tools »

Written by James  Profile

Posted Feb 14, 2011 / http://jamesmckay.net

How often should you check in code? »

Written by James  Profile

Posted Feb 07, 2011 / http://jamesmckay.net

A photo a day »

Written by James  Profile

Posted Jan 31, 2011 / http://jamesmckay.net

Experimental photography »

Written by James  Profile

Posted Jan 27, 2011 / http://jamesmckay.net

A physicist’s approach to taking your blood pressure »

Written by James  Profile

Posted Jan 21, 2011 / http://jamesmckay.net

Baseless merges in Team Foundation server – why? »

Written by James  Profile

Posted Jan 17, 2011 / http://jamesmckay.net

A nasty surprise from WordPress »

Written by James  Profile

Posted Jan 15, 2011 / http://jamesmckay.net

Finding bugs with a binary search of your source control history »

Written by James  Profile

Posted Dec 21, 2010 / http://jamesmckay.net

Baseless merges in Team Foundation server – why? »

Written by James  Profile

Posted Dec 20, 2010 / http://jamesmckay.net

Understanding Planning Poker »

Written by James  Profile

Posted Dec 16, 2010 / http://jamesmckay.net

Programmer jargon: Blub »

Written by James  Profile

Posted Dec 13, 2010 / http://jamesmckay.net

How to host WCF services in ASP.NET applications without bloating your web.config »

Written by James  Profile

Posted Dec 09, 2010 / http://jamesmckay.net

The benefits of the command line »

Written by James  Profile

Posted Dec 06, 2010 / http://jamesmckay.net

Programmer jargon: Cargo Cult »

Written by James  Profile

Posted Nov 18, 2010 / http://jamesmckay.net

Why tabs versus spaces matters »

Written by James  Profile

Posted Nov 15, 2010 / http://jamesmckay.net