http://georgemauer.net/blog George Mauer is on the net Sat, 15 May 2010 16:13:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My apologies if this is not this blog's standard fare but I need to vent my frustration. Today it finally came out in the national news that the Macondo Oil Gusher is pouring an order of magnitude more oil per day than the previous estimate and two orders of magnitude ... http://georgemauer.net/blog/blowing-off-oil-non-programming/ I do a lot of online collaboration. So here is my list of online collaboration tools that I like to use. Jing - The absolutely best way to capture screenshots and video, upload and share it immediately Charting ... http://georgemauer.net/blog/online-collaboration-tools-list/ I have a strong distaste for things that works in a way that I dislike. I am very unique that way. Right at the top of that list is any time that I am forced by language limitations into redundant code. Notably, casting. Take the following ... http://georgemauer.net/blog/c-4-0-dynamic-and-no-more-annoying-casts/ Hey New Orleans people. It seems like Google wants to get into the fiber-optic game. According to their blog (thanks Mike for the tip) Google is looking to invest in a community by laying down some fiber! So now until March 26th they're putting out a Request for Information ... http://georgemauer.net/blog/nola-people-respond-to-googles-fiber-rfi/ This one goes out to...me. I've recently spent a lot of time setting up new workstations and am soon going to be spending a lot more. This post is a rundown of all the tools and litter helper apps that I absolutely positively cannot live without. Are ... http://georgemauer.net/blog/my-list-of-tools-i-cannot-live-without/ Those who know me in real life (and the roughly zero others that read my blog) know the big news. I have put in notice at my current company and starting February 21st I will be working full-time at EPS Software. For me? That's a big deal. For anyone else? ... http://georgemauer.net/blog/new-job-im-the-man/ Ok maybe not totally new, I am sure that its just a projection of something I once noticed subcionscioiusly in a F# project. But in the C# space, I've yet to see something quite like it. The problem is that programs are complicated. I don't tend to help ... http://georgemauer.net/blog/hey-i-think-ive-invented-a-new-pattern/ If you use Windows and don't use Powershell you should. Really you should. It's great for getting all the little repetitive things out of the way. Like for example enabling/disabling your Fusion Log every time you need to figure out why assembly binding has gone wrong. So here ... http://georgemauer.net/blog/enabledisable-fusionlog-powershell-script/ What's a Mock? For the purpose of this essay a mock is an object that uses the object oriented concept of polymorphism to create an alternate implementation of a class or interface. Essentially, a mock is just a fake version of an object. A mock is used for two things ... http://georgemauer.net/blog/rhino-mocks-intro/ I just got back from the New Orleans Barcamp and I'm going to go ahead and join everyone in singing its praises.  Day 1 was great - full of interesting presentations, introductions and exchanging of ideas.  I even got to present twice, once on Test Driven Development and again later ... http://georgemauer.net/blog/like-300-only-geekier/