Comments for Musings from teh M^onk^K

Comment on One day with Drupal by BlueRaja

BlueRaja — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:48:43 +0000

We use wikitools, it does the job well-enough.

Comment on Creating custom Team Fortress 2 Sprays for a PC by Misanthropy

Misanthropy — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:37:09 +0000

Excellent post! Thank you very much for that.
This is perhaps the most detailed post regarding sprays I have found.
Admittedly, I just came here looking for what file format to use for transparent sprays, and I found this.
Anyway, quite useful, and again, thanks.

Misanthropy

Comment on Typemock, my new best friend! by Gil Zilberfeld

Gil Zilberfeld — Sun, 03 May 2009 06:38:45 +0000

Hi Monkk,

The MSCorLib stuff is something we’re battling for a long time. If you fake DateTime.Now (our favorite request) you may get what you ask for, but not what you expected. That’s because, mscorlib uses these types as well. That’s why the wrappers are needed, to make sure that you fake the correct thing. By the way you CAN fake interfaces defined in mscorlib.

If you’d like, drop me an email, I’ll enter you into our insider list, so you’ll know what’s happening before everyone else.

Thanks,
Gil

Comment on Typemock, my new best friend! by Monkk

Monkk — Sat, 02 May 2009 13:00:45 +0000

I’ve been formally unit testing for about 6 years now. Thanks for the great product! My only question is why can’t one mock things in the mscorlib? Not really a big deal, but I did recently have a case where a function under test makes a call to Random.GetNext() and I needed to control it’s return value. It wasn’t really a big deal, I just wrapped the call to it in another function and was able to control it’s return value. But I could see cases where maybe working with streams or readers where more control would be nice without having to subclass and wrap ‘em. But really, that’s not a deal breaker at all!

Comment on Typemock, my new best friend! by Gil Zilberfeld

Gil Zilberfeld — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:06:49 +0000

Hi Monkk,

Wow, you just made my day!

I’m glad you like our product. We take great pride in that you can do all this stuff, and with a few lines of code.

How long have you been doing unit-testing?

Thanks again for the kind words,

Gil Zilberfeld
Typemock

Comment on Team Fortress 2 Achievements by Monkk

Monkk — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:11:52 +0000

lol, wow. Got something on your mind?

Comment on Team Fortress 2 Achievements by kiki

kiki — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:06:46 +0000

just clicked on yer blog link……why did i read the roomates poste as “ready to cream” JEEZ

Comment on Team Fortress 2 Achievements by T3h QUADFather

T3h QUADFather — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 15:52:51 +0000

Engineer is Credit to Team!!!!!

Comment on Yup, I got down-sized :-( by Andy Bleich

Andy Bleich — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:15:27 +0000

John, Andy here. A contractor I used to work with was asking if I knew anyone looking for work. Contact me if you’re interested. I don’t want to leave my personal info on this site so send me an email at work Andrew_Bleich@youknowwhere.com

Comment on A foray into Flash by Monkk

Monkk — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:54:21 +0000

I found Flash’s interface to be awful and unintuitive. Of course most of my development work is in Visual Studio so I can’t slight it too much for not living up to standards of the best coding IDE on the planet.

Perhaps it makes more sense to “designers” and in the making flash “movies”. It definitely comes off as adding programmable ability as an afterthought rather then having been designed from the ground up with it in mind. It really is unfortunate that Flash has so much market penetration, Silverlight is definitely (well in my opinion) a better technology, alas it won’t be adopted simply because MS makes it

Haven’t used Photoshop since I switched to Gimp a few years ago, but I used to like the pshop interface.