The Johnson Blog

At work yesterday I created my first Visual Studio Addin.  Now that I know how to do it, I’m going to create one for something I’ve always wanted: launch windows explorer on a folder in the solution explorer.  There apparently used to be a powertoy for this feature, but that was for VS2003.

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As I watched the Cardinals beat the Tigers tonight I sat and redid most of the toolbar icons for Chef. Every now and then it’s nice to take a break from coding, and for those times there is plenty of graphics and documentation work to be done. Here’s what the current toolbar looks like.

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A coworker and I have been trudging through a lot of code recently. .NET code written by a C programmer. Folks, these things should never mix, because when they do, you end up with:
byteArray = new Byte[hexString.Length >> 1];
That’s right. Don’t divide by 2. Bit shift. And nevermind that there [...]

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A coworker just ran across this awesome feature in a book so I thought I’d share it.
How many times have you recompiled an app just to get some debug/trace information spit out?   In VS 2005 you can have a breakpoint write information to the output window as if you compiled in Debug.WriteLine statements.  Just set [...]

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Today I probably spent a good 6-8 hours working on Chef.  I was able to get a lot done and move it to the point where the recipe management side has a functional, basic object model.  You know what that means??  Time to move on to the UI!
I already started to play around with the [...]

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The past two nights I have been working up a prototype for the new Chef website.  I think it’s the best looking site I’ve done, if I say so myself.  Taking the advice of a coworker, I mocked up the layout in photoshop before touching html/css.  It sure made the process go much faster, and [...]

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I’ve been keeping my eye on this for a while now.  A couple months ago I installed it on my desktop at home to start developing my dad’s new website PBJ Unlimited and also installed a technology preview of the SQL Management Studio Express, which looks to be just as featureful as the non-express version.
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