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Updating Your Web.Config From Each Build with CruiseControl

By Sameer On June 17, 2008 · Leave a Comment

If you are running a Web Site Project, yet you still want to have a build number somewhere in your application, this article will explain how you can create a simple tool to have an auto-increment build number and execute it using CruiseControl.NET

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Regular Expression Designer

By Sameer On June 17, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Link to a nifty tool on building regular expressions

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Unit Testing on Your Database

By Sameer On May 22, 2008 · 2 Comments

When unit testing on your database, you will run into a common problem.

Rolling back.

So you want to do some unit tests, and then you want to reset your database back to the nice squeaky clean version that doesn’t have half failed unit tests.

So how can you do this?

There are many ways [...]

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PHP VS. ASP.NET

By Sameer On May 8, 2008 · 91 Comments

This is a very shallow comparison of my experiences with PHP and ASP.NET Don’t take this as a religious war or something, the idea is just some basic comparison.   Here is a summary: If you are choosing which technology to use to build an application, use .NET. You will get more bang for the buck. With [...]

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20% Extra Security is Enough To Stop Kiddie Hackers

By Sameer On May 5, 2008 · Leave a Comment

How adding a little bit of security can stop most hackers.

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Manage your transaction chaos with Spring Framework

By Sameer On April 30, 2008 · Leave a Comment

If you have crazy function overloads all over the place where you have to pass a transaction object and it seems to be never ending, here is a solution for you using the Spring.NET framework which is freely available and open source.

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Unit test your life!

By Sameer On April 29, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Two interesting examples as to how you can solve many problems not just in coding but in your life too by applying the principles of unit testing. This post gives you something to think about in regards to unit testing and why to use it in a more broad perspective.

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Moving from SourceSafe to Subversion

By Sameer On April 24, 2008 · 1 Comment

This is an overview of some of the changes you will encounter when going from SourceSafe to Subversion. Subversion is modeled on CVS, whereas SourceSafe is modeled on…. well… nothing (just a joke).   In SourceSafe, you work in a shared code base or line (known as a “Project” in SourceSafe) which you [...]

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Copy A Database Diagram To Another Database

By Sameer On April 19, 2008 · 4 Comments

For some reason SQL Server doesn’t have an easy way to "Create TO" for database diagrams, unlike stored procedures, functions ,etc.

Here is how you can achieve moving a database diagram (or copying a database diagram) in SQL Server 2005

use Old_Database go –this will copy your database diagrams into a temporary table select * [...]

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Five Points To Improve Your Estimation

By Sameer On March 28, 2008 · 2 Comments

Estimation is a skill that is essential when doing software development and software engineering. Here are five points that are practical and can be used towards understanding how to estimate and improve your estimates.

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