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Comment on Why software development metaphors always fail by My week (09/18/2010) « While I Compile

My week (09/18/2010) « While I Compile — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 02:21:42 +0000

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Comment on MonoRail, Prototype validation and multiple submit buttons by Tom

Tom — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 08:17:26 +0000

Hm, works in ff and ie only, merde…
The only way to add the button to the request appears to be to add a click handler for every button. Not nice, but working.

Comment on MonoRail, Prototype validation and multiple submit buttons by Tom

Tom — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:30:24 +0000

Hey there,

had a similar problem with a form sent via an ajax request.
var buttonClicked = document.activeElement || event.explicitOriginalTarget; really did the trick, didn’t know that before but like it.

Thanx a lot,
Tom

Comment on NHibernate many-to-many mappings and order-by by Federico Tolomei

Federico Tolomei — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 13:00:30 +0000

Is it possible to use the order-by clause in a many-to-many mapping: put it inside the tag. NHibernate (2.1.2.400) will put the ORDER BY clause in right place in generated SQL.

Comment on Showing commits not yet on master by My Git – Svn Workflow « Random Code

My Git – Svn Workflow « Random Code — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 04:08:27 +0000

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Comment on Simplify IUserType Testing by Neal

Neal — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:18:34 +0000

Mark,

You can create a timezone using only an offset via the static CreateCustomTimezone method on the TimeZoneInfoClass. the code for the factory I use is shown below.

public static class TimeZoneInfoFactory { public static TimeZoneInfo Create( double gmtOffset ) { var name = String.Format( "GMT{0:+0.#;-0.#;#}", gmtOffset ); var offsetMinutes = Convert.ToInt32( gmtOffset * 60 ); var offset = new TimeSpan( 0, offsetMinutes, 0 ); return TimeZoneInfo.CreateCustomTimeZone( name, offset, name, name, null, null, true ); } }

Comment on Simplify IUserType Testing by Mark

Mark — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:10:02 +0000

Nice article. I especially appreciate the tests. How does TimeZoneInfoFactory work? Do you loop over TimezoneInfo.GetSystemTimeZones looking for one that matches the offset and return it? I’m not sure how to initialize a TimeZoneInfo instance using only an offset. Cheers, Mark.

Comment on Simplify IUserType Testing by Neal

Neal — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:34:42 +0000

The reason that I only capture the offset is that this is all that is required to allow me to display the date and time to the user in their local time. Using an NHibernate interceptor I can ensure that all times are saved to the database using UTC time and when I need to display a time in the UI, I can grab the current users timezone and, using methods provided by the TimezoneInfo class, convert UTC time to the users local time.

Comment on Simplify IUserType Testing by Joe

Joe — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:25:18 +0000

Great article. I’m developing an events site where timezone handling is central.

One question i have about your code is whether the offset alone is sufficient to determine a specific timezone (especially considering DST)? based on your code it seems that the name is not important, so that partially answers the question.

Comment on TDD and NCover by Gustavo

Gustavo — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:16:25 +0000

Nice post, I didn’t know the NCover Explorer, I’ll give it a try ASAP.

I just blogged about running both NUnit and NCover from the console in case anybody needs it:
http://thegsharp.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/calculating-coverage-with-ncover/
and
http://thegsharp.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/running-nunit-from-the-console/

Cheers!