Ben Griswold on November 3rd, 2010

A few years back I started dallying with test-driven development, but I never fully committed to the practice. This wasn’t because I didn’t believe in the value of TDD; it was more a matter of not completely understanding how to incorporate “test first” into my everyday development. Back in my web forms days, I could [...]

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Ben Griswold on July 23rd, 2010

What’s up with Ben? All he’s been writing about lately is Ruby, Ruby, Ruby. Doesn’t he work with ASP.NET MVC anymore? Let me assure you that I do – just about every single day and it’s been for quite a while now. Sure, I have been spending time learning Ruby but I’m also constantly developing [...]

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Ben Griswold on April 19th, 2010

Late last year, I wrote about Streaming Media with my Sony Blu-ray Disc Player. I am still digging the Blu-ray player setup but guess what showed up in the mail yesterday?   That’s right!  A free Netflix disc which now let’s me instantly watch TV episodes and movies via my Wii console.  I popped the disc [...]

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Ben Griswold on March 18th, 2010

Early in my career, when I wanted to learn a new technology, I’d sit in the bookstore aisle and I’d work my way through each of the available books on the given subject.  Put in enough time in a bookstore and you can learn just about anything. I used to really enjoy my time in [...]

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Ben Griswold on December 31st, 2009

The best gift under the tree this year? A Sony Blu-ray Disc player: The BDP-N460 allows you to instantly stream thousands of movies, videos and music from the largest selection of leading content providers including Netflix, Amazon Video On Demand, YouTube™, Slacker® Radio and many, many more. Plus, enjoy the ultimate in high-definition entertainment and [...]

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Ben Griswold on December 22nd, 2009

Last Wednesday, I took a whopping 15 minutes out of my day and added ELMAH (Error Logging Modules and Handlers) to my ASP.NET MVC application.  If you haven’t heard the news (I hadn’t until recently), ELMAH does a killer job of logging and reporting nearly all unhandled exceptions.  As for handled exceptions, I’ve been using [...]

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Ben Griswold on May 11th, 2009

I was just speaking with a coworker about the tool I used to mockup screens in a recent requirements document.  If you aren’t familiar with Balsamiq Mockups, you are missing out.  Maybe you are responsible for application UI design or you simply like to sketch out your screens before you develop them?  If so, take [...]

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Ben Griswold on April 8th, 2009

I read through Jeffrey Richter’s CLR via C# not too long ago.  This evening I cracked it open again and jotted down a few notes on what I personally took away from the book. Of course, if I spent the time to write down everything I learned, I might still be busy writing.  I’ve thrown [...]

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