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Category: Technology

  • LiveWriter will not post pictures to my WordPress blog

    Headline: Change the LiveWriter Picture settings to use the Blog service rather than the FTP site. I mentioned about a month ago that my upgrade from WordPress 2.7.1 to WordPress 3.0.1 went very smoothly. I use LiveWriter for my blogging. I find it very easy to use. The only challenge in the past was that…

  • Smooth Upgrade to WordPress 3.0.1 on GoDaddy

    I went through the 3 step (2 really) wizard on GoDaddy to register to have my WordPress upgraded… I was still on 2.7.1. Since I started to use it I was concerned about upgrading. WordPress has moved pretty fast in the past and I wasn’t sure I wanted to try to keep up. I tried…

  • Unit Testing a Very Simple ViewResult in MVC

    Technorati Tags: Unit Testing,MVC,VS 2010 I have a view that really only provides content, is there a quick way to test that it exists? What’s the Assert? There’s really not much to unit test if you have a page that has only HTML in a MVC (Model-View-Controller) project. And to some extent, if you had…

  • Unit Testing CodeSmith Insight

    Technorati Tags: Unit Testing,MVC,Moq,CodeSmith,Insight As anyone that knows me knows, I use test driven development. So when I put together a Feedback page in my MVC (Model-View-Controller) site I started with my test. What should the test be? Let’s start with the User Story : As a site user (anonymous or logged in) I want…

  • CodeSmith Insight Overview

    Technorati Tags: CodeSmith CodeSmith Insight is a very nice tool that’s currently in Beta targeted and collecting feedback from your users… to provide you with “Insight” to your customers needs. I’ve been beta testing this for about 1 week now and have been very impressed. I’ll put some of my findings here as well as…

  • Unit Test Authorize Attribute

    Technorati Tags: Unit Testing,ASP.NET,MVC,VS 2010 Story: I want to write a unit test to ensure that the Authorize attribute is applied to a controller ActionResult or ViewResult so that security is tested. Here is the test: Unit Test [TestMethod] public void PreviousSiteUserConversion_Authorization_Attributes_Have_Been_Applied() {     // Arrange     MethodInfo varietalMethod = typeof(AdminController).GetMethod("PreviousSiteUserConversion", new Type[] { });       //…

  • dbboon and proxy.php broke my GoDaddy site?

    Technorati Tags: Hosting Headline: I deleted the folder and now my site works fine. I’ve seen other posts on this, but the word I got from GoDaddy today is that this file is required for some features involving “widgets”. Since I don’t use any of those features, this file was breaking my site. I honestly…

  • Impressed with CrystalTech for .NET 4.0

    Technorati Tags: .NET 4.0,Hosting,ASP.NET I’ve used CrystalTech for years. They seemed to be falling behind a bit when I started to work with the MVC (Model-View-Controller) pattern. That works MUCH better with IIS 7 than with IIS 6, but CrystalTech only had IIS 6 servers. That’s all changed! I now have no excuses for not…