http://unintelligible.org/blog Wed, 26 May 2010 18:38:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For some reason, I couldn't find a list of the different Resharper code inspections and their severity anywhere on the web (not even in Jetbrains' site); this is useful to go through the available inspections with team members to decide which we should enable across our team. So, for convenience, I'm ... http://unintelligible.org/blog/2010/05/24/resharper-45-inspection-severity-list/ A while ago, I found an article about implementing a named lock class in C#, allowing for the following code: private static NamedLock namedLock = new NamedLock(); public void DoSomethingConcurrent(string lockName) { using (namedLock.Lock(lockName)) { //Do something concurrent ... http://unintelligible.org/blog/2009/10/20/named-reader-writer-lock-in-c/ Installing Selenium as a Windows service is reasonably straightforward - based on the instructions for Fitnesse, which unfortunately seem to have been deleted from the Fitnesse wiki, but which have been reproduced here. There are two parts to doing this - the first, registering the service using srvany.exe (which wraps any ... http://unintelligible.org/blog/2009/07/28/installing-selenium-rc-as-a-windows-service/ A few months ago, I posted an entry on how Rubyists sometimes get distracted by the power of the language, preferring lengthy debates on programming aesthetics to actually writing (efficient) code. I compared this to photography, in which aspiring photographers sometimes get lost in technical discussions rather than focussing on ... http://unintelligible.org/blog/2009/03/08/rubyists-and-photographers-slight-return/ The 'sc' utility can be used to create, delete or edit a Windows service. It can be used for any executables (as opposed to installutil, which can only be used for .Net services). Its help is available using sc /help (and is also available on MSDN); however, I found the ... http://unintelligible.org/blog/2009/03/08/adding-a-windows-service-using-sc/ Like several other people, I was fascinated by Roger Alsing's post shortly before Christmas describing his program to evolve an image look like Leonardo's Mona Lisa, using only semi-transparent polygons. This uses genetic programming (or perhaps more accurately, simulated annealing, a Monte Carlo method) to evolve an image, comparing each ... http://unintelligible.org/blog/2009/02/02/mona-lisa-image-evolution-in-ruby-jruby/ It's been a year now since I switched to the Dvorak keyboard layout and learned to touch-type, so it seemed like a good time to assess progress so far. I now consistently type between 60 and 70 WPM, depending on the day and the text I need to type. I'm reasonably ... http://unintelligible.org/blog/2009/01/10/touch-typing-update-one-year-after/ When running an application pool in IIS under a different user than the default, for an application that requires write access to the Event Log (for example, when trying to create a new event source in your application), it is necessary to grant that user sufficient access to the event ... http://unintelligible.org/blog/2008/12/01/event-log-access-permissions-for-aspnet-application-pools/ Migrating an existing SVN repository to git is pretty easy; here's a quick step-by-step guide (and reminder to myself). Before we start, let's make sure git and git-svn are installed: $ sudo apt-get install git git-core git-svn 1. Getting the code out of Subversion First, use git-svn to get a copy of the remote ... http://unintelligible.org/blog/2008/07/30/migrating-a-subversion-repository-to-a-remote-git-repository/ A slightly older .Net 2 application I wrote for a client to upload files to Amazon S3 makes use of the Amazon S3 SOAP API. The SOAP API has the advantage over the REST API of being able to stream large files as DIME attachements when uploading to the S3 ... http://unintelligible.org/blog/2008/07/27/wse-20-in-visual-studio-2008/