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  • Lessons Learned

    Belkin USB Dongle and Ubuntu

    ByErik Dietrich June 14, 2011September 27, 2012

    This is another one of those posts that’s more for my reference, but if anyone else finds it useful, so much the better… So, a few years ago, I bought some Belkin wireless USB dongles (F5D7050 is the chipset, I believe). I’ve gotten these working with a few different Linux distros, but the one I…

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  • .NET

    Precondition and Invariant Checking

    ByErik Dietrich June 6, 2011June 30, 2015

    The Problem If you find yourself immersed in a code base that is sometimes or often fast and loose with APIs and internal contracts between components, you might get into the habit of writing a lot of defensive code. This applies to pretty much any programming language, but I’ll give examples here in C#, since…

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  • Lessons Learned

    VisualSVN

    ByErik Dietrich May 20, 2011September 27, 2012

    Back Story Recently, I set up a media wiki installation. The surrounding requirements were such that I was forced to use a Windows 2003 server instead of Linux, which would have been my preference, but hey, when life gives you lemons, turn the lemon into a WAMP stack. And that’s just what I did. The…

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  • The Life of a Programmer

    Software Craftsmanship and the Art of Software

    ByErik Dietrich May 10, 2011September 27, 2012

    Context I’m a member of the LinkedIn group “Software Craftsmanship.” I’m not an active member, but I do like perusing the discussion topics. Recently, I read through this discussion on whether software is more of an “art” or a “craft.” This set me to musing a bit, so I thought I would post about it…

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  • .NET

    Microsoft Pex

    ByErik Dietrich April 30, 2011June 30, 2015

    I’ve recently started to play around with Microsoft Pex, and I’m discovering (1) that there is a non-trivial learning curve; and (2) that it seems like a pretty powerful tool. As best I can tell at this early stage (and admittedly, I’m certainly a neophyte), there seem to be two major components. The first is…

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