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ASMock Beta 2 Released with Tutorial Series

Posted on February 17, 2009

ASMock beta 2 has been released and, other than Flash 10 Vector support, is largely a bugfix release. I’ve also added a seven part tutorial series on how to use the framework. As always, any feedback can be added to … Continue reading →

Posted in actionscript, asmock, flex | 3 Comments

Generics (Vector) in the AVM2

Posted on February 11, 2009

So I finally got around to looking at vector’s in the AVM2 yesterday (for asmock) after someone logged a bug and found that the Flash 10 features are not actually documented in the AVM2 Overview document. Fortunately, after some digging … Continue reading →

Posted in avm2, flash10, vector | 2 Comments

ASMock Beta 1 Released

Posted on January 23, 2009

I’ve just released a beta of ASMock, the dynamic mocking framework for ActionScript 3 that I’ve been working on. The API should be familiar to users of Rhino Mocks as it is a port of it (albeit with some changes). … Continue reading →

Posted in actionscript, asmock, flex | 1 Comment

Braid

Posted on August 10, 2008

I try to keep my blog programming related (for some reason), but I feel I have to bring to light to that one guy somewhere who reads my blog a new game for Xbox Live Arcade that came out last … Continue reading →

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FTP for IIIS7 RTM

Posted on February 28, 2008

The replacement for the FTP service in IIS 7 that I mentioned recently has just been released. Click through to download in x86 or x64.

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SQL 2005 XML DML cannot make multiple changes to the same value

Posted on February 26, 2008

With the advent of xml columns in SQL 2005, I was looking forward to the data manipulation that XML Data Manipulation Language (DML) provides. Unfortunately, it appears that the implementation is horribly limited in that it cannot make an arbitrary … Continue reading →

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Toshiba Announces Discontinuation of HD DVD Businesses

Posted on February 19, 2008

Toshiba has officially discontinued the HD DVD business, resulting in the end of the format war that was helping nobody. Although this comes as no surprise to anyone, I’ve always preferred HD-DVD as a format. Oh well, no use being … Continue reading →

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IIS 7 FTP Publishing Service

Posted on February 19, 2008

The replacement for the FTP service in IIS 7 is almost here, and it’s looking better everyday. Although still only a release candidate (RC0), the new service supports a myriad of new features: FTP over SSL Membership Providers UTF8 IPv6 … Continue reading →

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Advanced Debugging Lab Series

Posted on February 18, 2008

Over the past few weeks Tess Ferrnandez, an escalation engineer at Microsoft, has been releasing the first of her 10 part series of labs advanced ASP.NET debugging. At the time of writing there are three labs covering Hangs (deadlocks), Crashes, … Continue reading →

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Microsoft opens the binary formats and starts an open source conversion project

Posted on February 18, 2008

As part of their Open Specification Promise, Microsoft have finally released documentation for their binary office formats (DOC, PPT, XLS). Additionally, they have started an open source project to convert these formats into their respective 2007 package formats. I’ve gotta … Continue reading →

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