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CodeCamp: in need input

Posted by Owen Evans on Monday, August 18th, 2008

Ok so this is a bit of a plea.
I’ve a week or so to work on my CodeCamp presentation “MVC and Me” (ok so would have been cooler to link to flight of the navigator but that’s too hard for me to pull off) and I’m still trying to gather as many ideas about what [...]

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Split And Sprint

Posted by Owen Evans on Thursday, August 14th, 2008

In a forthcoming book (before you ask I’ve no idea what the title is) there’s a little case study about the first project i ever truly worked on as a developer. The project and the team have some of my fondest memories, and I’d want to work with any of the people in the small [...]

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Post 300

Posted by Owen Evans on Friday, August 8th, 2008

Ok I just had to cheat an make up a reason to post. But this is my 300th post, this blog has been going for more than 5 years (25 Feb 2003 was my first post, those heady days of university). that’s 1992 days, so an average of one post every 6.64 days. (my goodness [...]

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Code Camp 2008

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 - [|||] - Comments

I’ve just signed up for Code Camp this year and volunteered to do a session. If you haven’t already signed up get over to http://www.codecamp.net.nz and register, it’s the day before Tech Ed, and runs from 9am in the morning till 6pm,
Here’s the blurb
Auckland Code Camp 2008You heard about it. You read about it. You [...]

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Twitter Updates for 2008-08-05

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008 - [|] - Comments

trying to work out a way of attending blogging dinner code camp and tech ed when i was supposed to just be going up on Tuesday Morning. argh #
off to see dark knight. yay #
wonder if @shanselman will be at code camp nz before TechEd. #
@timhaines i recomend the PeepCode tutorial on TextMate, v. good. [...]

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Xero API + Ruby Revisited

Thursday, July 31st, 2008 - [|||] - Comments

Oh my, thanks very much to Tim Haines for pointing out HTTParty, this little gem makes writing an API for the Xero code really, really easy:
here’s all the methods for getting info out of Xero:
require ‘HTTParty’
require ‘pp’
class Xero
include HTTParty
format :XML
def initialize(url,api_key)
Xero.base_uri(url)
Xero.default_params({:apiKey=>api_key})
[...]

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Connecting to the Xero API: Part 1 [Ruby, GET, Contacts]

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 - [||] - Comments

Hey hey hey, so I finally get an excuse to post some ruby code, yay!
As part of my foray into the Xero API I wanted to get a feel for how easy it would be to connect from non .net languages and as my Ruby was getting a bit rusty I thought I’d pull out [...]

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To Snapper or not to Snapper

Friday, July 25th, 2008 - [||] - Comments

So for those who aren’t in Wellington, the local busses are starting to completely roll out the new Snapper card payment system. If you’re from the UK think Oyster.
Let me first off say that I REALLY want to like this system, I loved travelling round London on the Oyster, and putting my monthly passes on [...]

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Is that you?

Friday, July 18th, 2008 - [||] - Comments

I didn’t recognise you it’s been so long.
I finally got the urge and the patience to fire up my editor and write a post for this long neglected weblog.
How are you all doing? good I hope?
Ok so I may have been prompted to write by a link from Julian over at ProWorkflow but I’m here [...]

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Wellington Geek Lunch

Lunch with geeks

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 - [||] - Comments

So today we managed to get the Wellington Geek Lunches off the ground. The enthusiasm was great, hopefully we can convert it into long term stickability*. We’re trying to decide on a decent wellington venue for the meetings but we’ve agreed to try a meeting room next week (if anyone has a suitable, easy access [...]

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Mocking 101

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 - [||||] - Comments

Last night I held my first presentation for the Wellington .net user group, it went down really well and I think I managed to keep everyone’s attention for the 50 minutes or so i rambled on. It was really encouraging to see so many people there as mocking and unit testing still feel alt.net to [...]

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Come show me some love

Thursday, March 27th, 2008 - - Comments

I’ll be talking at the Wellington Dot Net User group on Wednesday. I’ll try and make the talk as exciting as possible, it’s on mocking and why it’s useful.
 
http://dot.net.nz/Default.aspx?tabid=1&mid=388&ctl=Detail&xmid=3520&xmfid=2
Come along if you’re in the region.

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war stories

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 - [||||] - Comments

I’ve roped myself into giving a talk on mocking and frameworks, going to cover Rhino.Mocks, Typemock and touch on Moq, but I thought I’d put a call out for anyone who has any war stories around mocking that I can work in. good or bad, I don’t want to just present a one-sided argument. so [...]

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