This is a guest post by Albin Sunnanbo introducing a great hack to work with mails in test environments. If you have a .NET application that sends emails, this is probably something for you. TL;DR; PickupMailViewer is a simple web viewer for emails saved by the specifiedPickupDirectory SMTP setting in a .NET application. Download the… Continue reading Pickup Mail Viewer
Category: Software Development
Getting a Pull Request Accepted
I like to receive pull requests, but I like some more than others. Here are a few hints on how to make me love your totally awesome pull request and merge it instantly. With a bit more than a year as an open source maintainer I’ve received a few pull requests. Some have been good,… Continue reading Getting a Pull Request Accepted
Solving the set Startup Projects bug in Visual Studio
This is a guest post by Albin Sunnanbo sharing how a mysterious Visual Studio problem made the Set Startup project command fail. In one of our projects at work we had this mysterious problem with Visual Studio, both 2012 and 2013. It happened to some developers and some machines. When I got a new computer… Continue reading Solving the set Startup Projects bug in Visual Studio
Partial Commits with Git
Every once in a while I’m working on a feature, only to discover that I need to extend another part of the code first. If I was disciplined, I would create another branch at that point. But I’m not. I end up with both the extended utility class and the actual feature as pending changes.… Continue reading Partial Commits with Git
Regression Testing Processing Algorithms
This is a guest post by Albin Sunnanbo sharing experiences on regression testing. On several occasions I have worked with systems that processed lots of work items with a fairly complicated algorithm. When doing a larger rewrite of such an algorithm you want to regression test your algorithm. Of course you have a bunch of… Continue reading Regression Testing Processing Algorithms