by David | Oct 6, 2015 | Development
I’ve found myself having to convert HTML to plain text a few times in a row now and thought I would post my very simple solution for it. It’s got a few caveats, for example, it won’t handle <pre> tags or margins on divs and such thing. Not even...
by David | Sep 29, 2015 | Clean code, Development
Today we’re not having a post on the soothing music of Enya but the Lazy<T> class in .Net 4.0. This is probably old news to most out there but I just found it recently (having learned that lazy loading is usually something to avoid, temporal...
by David | Sep 26, 2015 | Development, Environment
I was sure I had already made a post on this subject for my own reference but as it seems I haven’t here it goes. I’m not a great fan of passwords as I’ve got about three million or some such at this point so if there’s a way of not...
by David | Sep 2, 2015 | Debugging, Development, Tooling
I’ve been getting into Ruby last week whilst playing with Selenium at work. We’re trying to get around quite a big and well-known limitation of Selenium, that you cannot reuse a driver already created within another process. Since we’re executing...
by David | Sep 7, 2014 | Automation, Development, Environment, Tooling, Tools
When working with git and node js you end up using the command line quite a lot. As a Windows grown developer this is kind of a strange sensation really, you quickly start to appreciate why those Linux guys constantly advocated the bash and you also understand...
by David | Aug 24, 2014 | Debugging, Development
I’ve started coding Android again and in all honestly it fields like jumping head first into a mine field. Everything is littered with hidden problems that you have to carefully navigate around. This time I’ll try to cherry pick some of the problems...
