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Book Review – Manning The Art of Unit Testing

By Damien White | Published: September 30, 2009

To some, “unit testing” is a four letter word.  While it’s unfortunate, the feeling is justified by poor experiences, lack of knowledge, and so on.  Personally, I’ve had mixed experiences with unit tests.  I’m sure many of you have encountered similar situations.  After reading The Art of Unit Testing by Roy Osherove, I feel far [...]

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Book Review – Wrox Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0

By Damien White | Published: May 17, 2009

Working primarily on web applications, I’ve focused most of my time on ASP.NET Web Forms since the very early betas.  Web Forms were truly a great revolution in the web world.  Once I saw the functionality when it first came out (when I was using ::shudder::  “classic” ASP), I couldn’t wait to start using it.  [...]

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Gift Ideas for the Geek

By Damien White | Published: November 30, 2008

Christmas is fast approaching, and often I’m asked what to get a fellow tech geek.  There is an infinite amount of things I could write about, but I’ll pick a few items from some popular categories.  In this post, we’ll look at three categories, books (“serious” gifts), Office Space gear (“fun” gifts), and USB gadgets [...]

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Fujitsu ScanSnap S510 Review

By Damien White | Published: September 2, 2008

I have been using what can only be described as a wonder in the quest for a paperless office.   Here was my problem, I have countless documents that I consume/produce, for example, bills, invoices, receipts, contracts, etc.  All of these documents end up in various file folders, and things are impossible to find.  For example, [...]

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