Category Archives: Tools

Upgrading Java for Firefox on 64-bit Windows

By ChrisEdwards | Published: November 7, 2011

If you are on a 64-bit Windows machine and are getting a notification that your Java plugin version is out of date in Firefox even after installing the latest version, you need to install the 32-bit version of Java. Firefox runs as a 32-bit application on Windows, so it uses the 32-bit version of Java. […]

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Video: Padawan to Jedi – A Developer Jump-Start (my presentation at Austin Code Camp 2011)

By ChrisEdwards | Published: September 15, 2011

Here is the video of my “Padawan to Jedi – A Developer Jump-Start” presentation I gave last week at the Austin Code Camp 2011. It touches on all the principles, patterns, practices, and such that I have learned in my many years being a developer. I designed the Padawan2Jedi talk to present knowledge in a […]

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Paper.li – Read twitter/facebook like a daily newspaper

By ChrisEdwards | Published: March 30, 2011

It takes a long time to catch up when I fall behind on twitter. Not anymore. I started using Paper.li to gather all the urls that are tweeted in a day into one consolidated view that looks like a newspaper. See image. I simply navigated to http://paper.li to sign up, and entered my twitter id […]

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Ultimate .NET Developer Tools Roundup

By ChrisEdwards | Published: June 5, 2010

Over the last year, I have been compiling a list of all the tools I use on a regular basis. I was amazed how many there are. Below are the tools I find useful to do my job as a .NET developer. I hope you find them useful as well. Development Tools Version Control Subversion […]

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JetBrains dotCover code coverage tool for .NET now in early access

By ChrisEdwards | Published: May 12, 2010

JetBrains has opened the dotCover Early Access Program. dotCover is JetBrains’ new code coverage tool for .NET. Here are some of the features (taken from the JetBrains website). Calculates statement-level coverage of .NET 1.0-4.0 applications Integrates with Visual Studio 2005, 2008 and 2010 Integrates with ReSharper to show test coverage Highlights uncovered code in Visual […]

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