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There is a bunch of things happening in Dublin in the next few months, I figured it would be handy to push a post on it. 30th of august – Windows Phone 7 . A joint event between MTUG and Dublin Alt.Net – Registration and Details 9th of September - Promiscuous Developer Meetup (location not confirmed) developers [...]


Kick post on Types, nothing outrageous, but this was just a construct that I never used too much. The other day a collegue and we got stuck on a method similar to this void DoStuff(Type type) { var iInterface = typeof(ISomethingAmazing); Type genericType = //how to get ISomethingAmazing<type> //do more things } and well I didn’t [...]


So I was getting an ” Could not Load File or Assembly” error, even thou I was pretty certain I was referencing the right dlls in the correct folders. What could this error possibly mean? The actual error I had was: System.IO.FileLoadException: Could not load file or assembly ‘Moq, Version=2.6.1014.1, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=69f491c39445e920′ or one of [...]


What is pair programming? Its when 2 developers sit down together to write a piece of code. There is one person in the keyboard known as the driver and another person looking at the code and commenting about it, known as the navigator, these roles can change in time. The idea is that while you are typing [...]


Recently I started using Visual Studio 2010, if you follow me on twitter you probably know that this hasnt been a nice transition for me (apologies for the cursing btw)  I ve had many crashes, and I m pretty sure I m not alone, not only a quick search in twitter will reflect this (see [...]


I think the best way to describe this is saying, When is the next one? (We think around late August, early September) Thanks again to our sponsors: Jetbrains, Manning and Microsoft, and particularly to our hosts: the open source Lab in UCD, that place is just designed for this type of events. Sessions: – Rx [...]


Hi all: Just thought I d post here that a group of us in Dublin. Alt.Net are organizing a coding day the 24th of April in UCD, it should be a fun day of hacking some code. One of the really cool things is that James Gregory will be there talking about Fluent Nhibernate. If [...]


I understand the title makes little sense, but this is probably what I would search in a web search engine ( hopefully at the time I ll find my own post) A short, unordered list of things I install when I get a new machine/wipped machine An FTP client Filezilla will do Firefox + Add [...]


DDD South West

06Mar10

So there is another DDD event the 5th of June, and this time is in Bristol, call for speakers is on ( if you want to submit, you can get instructions on how to do so here) Sessions look interesting so far. I really enjoyed the last DDD in Reading, Uk.


A few of us have been reading this book as a part of a book club. Finally I think is time to push a review for this book . Let me start saying that my expectations for the book were very high, the book club helped because we were really reading it in depth and [...]