An Exercise in WordPress Integration, or Why WordP...

I'd like to prefix my upcoming rant with the fact that WordPress is good at what it does: making basic blogs and publishing content. I use it, many other people use it, it works. Heck, I'm using it right now. But from a technical standpoint, WordPress sucks. I'm going to relate my experience here trying write a quick function to store post output to a file, to be used by a separate application on the same server. I...

ASP.Net MVC – How to route to images or othe...

A recent question on Stack Overflow (and subsequent answer that I wrote for it) inspired this post. I had recently been discussing URL rewriting in depth with my brother, and have also been doing some introductory work with the routing engine in ASP.Net MVC, and the question piqued my interest since I had been meaning to look at this more closely for some time. The question on Stack Overflow is titled "How do I route images...

Facebook Notifications – "An unknown er...

Over the last few months, I've worked with the Facebook Notification system many times, and there has always been a moderate-to-high level of frustration with it. It is difficult to test on a development application, because you simply don't have the same number of users as a live application, and the application settings on a dev app are different, which affects your allocation of allowed notifications. One of the prevalent...

.Net Mocking Frameworks – Capability Compari...

I have a couple years of experience of TDD under my belt, but it's only recently that I've felt like I am a relatively decent practitioner of it.  I attribute this to forcing myself to take the plunge into mocking, and the knowledge of patterns and loosely-coupled design that I've gained from it. You see, I work on a pretty large and complex ASP.Net webforms product, and tests were introduced late into the development cycle...