Recently while working on an open source .NET project,
I forgot to update the .nuspec after changing a package
dependency in my project.json. Of course the resulting nupkg
contained the wrong dependency. Fortunately, the package
wasn't published in that state, but I didn't want to risk such a thing …
Earlier this week at the day job I ran into an interesting problem working with a DataTable. A view that's supposed to show a subset of the table's rows showed nothing. I dropped into the debugger and became even more confused.
Visually inspecting the DataTable showed that there was a …
Since Google is deprecating OpenID 2.0 support, I decided to update LibraryHippo to authenticate via OAuth 2.0, which is a story in itself, but I'm here to talk about what happened next.
LibraryHippo has a set of handlers that are accessed primarily via the Cron and Task Queue …
A little while ago, I was fixing a LibraryHippo issue
in an area of the code that didn't have very good unit test
coverage. As part of my fix, I moved one class from the main
libraryhippo.py file to its own file. I integration-tested the fix …
A while back, Roman Turovskyy wrote FakeItEasy: Be Careful When Wrapping an Existing Object, an interesting post highlighting some of the difficulties of faking classes (as opposed to interfaces, which by virtue of having no behaviour of their own, are quite a bit more predictable). It's well-written and I enjoyed …
The FakeItEasy rakefile contains a vars target
(brainchild of Adam Ralph) that can be used to print out
the local variables defined in the script. Mostly these are static
variables, such as the path to the NUnit command, but some,
such as the upcoming FakeItEasy version, are computed. Logging these …
A few days ago, a user e-mailed me a bug report for LibraryHippo. For the previous 55 days, she'd been receiving the same (erroneous) morning e-mail about what library materials she had due. However, when she checked her family's account summary on the web page, it was correct.
(The exact …
As of version 1.18.0, a client-supplied bootstrapper can be used to determine which external assembly files are scanned during startup.
Last time, I talked about how [FakeItEasy extension scanning had improved in version 1.13.0][betterscan]. While this change has dramatically improved startup times in many situations …
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the problems that FakeItEasy's
assembly scanning was causing while it was looking for user-defined extensions. To recap,
FakeItEasy was scanning all assemblies in the AppDomain and the
working directory, looking for types that implemented
IArgumentValueFormatter, IDummyDefinition, or
IFakeConfigurator. This process was quite slow …
Late last week at the Day Job, a colleague came to me with a problem. The web service he was trying to hit was throwing an error he'd never seen before:
HTTP Error 500.19 - Internal Server Error The requested page cannot be accessed because the related configuration data for …