Saturday, May 18 2019
good-samaritan
I had an interesting problem updating my GherkinSyntax project when my Azure DevOps Pipeline builds started failing with error NU1604. Local builds worked fine, only the cloud builds were failing.
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Saturday, April 27 2019
good-samaritan
While developing the website for Code Camp Wellington 2019, I ran into an odd problem - the images for our organizing team were being squished on narrow format screens.
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Saturday, December 02 2017
good-samaritan
Adding a new feature to a personal project, I ran into an odd case where the unit tests weren’t running correctly. It took me hours to find the source of the problem, so I figured I’d share the result.
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Sunday, June 04 2017
good-samaritan
I have a Surface RT tablet that sees regular use as a consumption device - despite complaints about the so-called app-gap, I’ve been able to find all the applications I’ve needed. Recently, however, I found the device had become sluggish for the first ten minutes or so after signing in - something was consuming much of the available CPU (it’s a quad core device) and drive bandwidth.
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Wednesday, May 10 2017
good-samaritan
I’ve got some integration tests that need to know where their source code lives as they require loading sample files when they run. Hard coding the path into the tests is possible - and I did that for a time - but it’s also fragile and has odd error modes.
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