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eDriver’s Ed–Is it time?
Should our schools now be required to teach about driving safety on the internet superhighway? The idea of teaching internet safety to our children is not new. And, after years of working on the internet I’ve discovered that I’ve never had an original thought… just “original to me”… So I’m sure this is elsewhere… But…
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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…
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Walt Disney Life Lessons
Someone sent me this in a Word document. While the source was not attributed, I did go find it here. I thought it was pretty nice. ———- Clearly there is a ton to learn from Walt Disney. Let’s take a look at 7 Life-Changing Lessons from Walt Disney: 1. Keep Things in Perspective “A…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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[] { }); //…
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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…