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After nearly 11 years I've finally built my own blog and am leaving this blog and Blogger behind.  The new blog is at www.kevinberridg...

I still love Mercurial.  You git people can pry it from my cold dead hands! Mercurial has a search feature called revsets (hg help revsets...

Software Testing is ubiquitous these days.  It seems that every software development book has at least one section about testing.  Every con...

Last year I had the amazing experience of giving my OOP: You're Doing It Completely Wrong talk to a standing room only crowd at CodeMa...

Hi there. I have a question for you. I'm looking for some articles/papers/blogs/talks about Unit Testing at the right level of granula...

Another silly post combining my two favorite tools: Mercurial and Powershell. If you use named branches as part of your development workfl...

OOP: You're Doing It Completely Wrong (Stir Trek Edition) This talk, "OOP: You're Doing It Completely Wrong", was fir...

So I was gonna do this whole series of posts breaking out useful shortcuts into categories in bite sized chunks.  But that didn't happen...

Continuing on the Embracing The Beast (ETB) series, this time we're going to dive into the text editor. If you edit at all like I use...

Next up in the Embracing The Beast series is Navigate To. The Navigate To feature introduced in Visual Studio 2010 is the single most imp...

The Beast, as explained in the first post , is Visual Studio, and my objective is to finally really master it once and for all.  What's ...

The year was 2001, the language was VB, the editor was Visual Studio 6.  It was the first time I used Visual Studio and, to be honest, I d...

Have I ever mentioned how much I love Powershell? What do you do when you want to search a bunch of source files for a given string, and t...

Every time I do this it makes me smile. If you write apps that have input fields that have max lengths that are validated, then occasional...

Two simple small plastic containers.  The one on the left is a considerably better design: They nest inside each other because of the t...

I recently read Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby  by Sandi Metz.  It's a really wonderful book.  I can say without any hesitati...

"Where the uninformed and unenquiring eye perceives neither novelty nor beauty, he walks in the midst of wonders" - John Hershel,...

"I thus concluded that it is much more custom and example that persuade us than any certain knowledge, and yet inspite of this the voi...

Some body I follow on twitter retweeted this tweet from Tim Ottinger : The reason for writing a function is not to reuse its code, but to ...

In Slicing Concerns And Naming Them I posed a question about how to go about separating different concerns while still maintaining a clean ...