Posts for Jean-Paul S. Boodhoos Blog


Course Registration Issues

From Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo's Blog
March 26, 2009 at 10:20 pm
There have been several groups of people who have got in contact with me to let me know about problems they have been having with the course registration process. The limitation ... (more)

Getting syntax highlighting for your powershell scripts (take 2)

From Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo's Blog
March 24, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Since I just had to recently get my machine scaffolded again, I had a chance to revisit this item. I think this time I got it figured out a little ... (more)

Nothin’ but .NET – Reaching out

From Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo's Blog
March 24, 2009 at 10:40 am
There are some big, big changes coming this year that will revolve around how Nothin' but .Net promotes the cause of education. Registration for courses started a couple of ... (more)

Screen capture in OSX

From Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo's Blog
March 23, 2009 at 10:20 pm
Great article outlining the built in screen capture mechanisms on the mac : http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/screencapturemac/ht/macscreenshot.htm Overview (copying ... (more)

I’m not on Jetbrains payroll

From Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo's Blog
March 23, 2009 at 5:11 pm
The last post resulted in a great comment that I thought deserved some blog time: “Given that you sometimes give out ReSharper licenses when you present, ... (more)

Creating an Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop VM on VMWare Fusion

From Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo's Blog
March 23, 2009 at 2:59 pm
This guide is mostly for me to remind myself how I got my current ubuntu 8.10 desktop edition installed. I want to quickly make it very clear that I am “not ... (more)

ReSharper 4.5 – Red Bull for VS

From Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo's Blog
March 20, 2009 at 9:56 pm
If you happen to be one of the many developers who are still coding up a storm in a Vanilla visual studio installation. This post is for you. ReSharper ... (more)

Digital Productivity Strategies For Developers

From Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo's Blog
March 19, 2009 at 1:40 am
Back in December I recorded a podcast with Craig Shoemaker of the Polymorphic Podcast. We had a discussion about tools and techniques that I used to stay productive while on ... (more)

What’s up with my VS2008 install?

From Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo's Blog
March 18, 2009 at 7:40 pm
This is a request for help, as I don’t want to have to reinstall studio unless I really have to. I’m not sure if I accidentally changed a font setting for dialogs in studio, but ... (more)

Focus on fun and step into freedom in your career!!

From Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo's Blog
March 16, 2009 at 7:30 pm
Over the last year and a half I have had the opportunity to both work and teach with people from all across the world. One of the things that I have realized after talking with ... (more)

DevelopWithPassion@GitHub

From Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo's Blog
March 16, 2009 at 4:00 pm
With my comfort level with Git rounding the “not so uncomfortable” I decided to throw myself in heads first and move the code that I currently have hosted on assembla over to ... (more)

Wow, the difference a single line can make!!

From Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo's Blog
March 16, 2009 at 10:05 am
I have not changed my build script for my current project for a little while. As the project started to get bigger I started to notice a significant slowdown ... (more)

ReSharper Helper – AutoHotkey Script

From Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo's Blog
March 12, 2009 at 9:08 pm
In my quest to keep my fingers as close to home row as possible, I am publishing the script I used to allow me to hit most of the ReSharper shortcuts I use by staying on home ... (more)

Credit where credit is due

From Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo's Blog
March 12, 2009 at 6:00 pm
A couple of people have been contacting telling me about how much they are enjoying using the developwithpassion.bdd library. I just wanted to point out that the syntax for ... (more)

developwithpassion.bdd

From Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo's Blog
March 7, 2009 at 12:52 am
A good friend suggested that “seeing your name at the top of all my tests is weird”!! To that end I am rebranding all of my common libraries to be prefixed with the develop with ... (more)

Visual Studio Color Settings

From Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo's Blog
March 5, 2009 at 9:38 pm
I had someone a couple of days ago ask for my Visual Studio color settings. I got mine original settings by using the ones provided by John Lam. I did this mostly because of ... (more)

Code is headed your way

From Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo's Blog
March 3, 2009 at 5:41 pm
Now that I am tweeting regularly, I thought it would be time to announce that the last couple of months spent heads down working on a startup have produced some rather interesting ... (more)

Triggering events on UI components (WinForms)

From Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo's Blog
March 3, 2009 at 5:37 pm
I am currently working on a large winforms application (most likely the last winforms app before I make the transition to WPF). I am writing the application in a top down fashion, ... (more)

Getting In Contact With Me

From Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo's Blog
March 1, 2009 at 12:31 am
My response rate to emails for the last year has been less than stellar. This was mostly due to the fact that I did not really have a good way of managing requests that came ... (more)

Times are a changing….

From Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo's Blog
February 27, 2009 at 7:53 pm
As people who have been following my tweets today (jpboodhoo), they can see that I am back and now committed to updating people on my status as well as tweeting regularly throughout ... (more)

Times are a changin…

From Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo's Blog
February 27, 2009 at 3:04 am
As people who have been following my tweets today (jpboodhoo), they can see that I am back and now committed to updating people on my status as well as tweeting regularly throughout ... (more)

ReSharper 4.5 EAP

From Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo's Blog
February 25, 2009 at 6:31 pm
If you have not yet downloaded a copy of the 4.5 EAP I suggest that you go now and give it a whirl. So far everything is looking good. One of my favorite additions ... (more)

I won’t be presenting in Edmonton tomorrow

From Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo's Blog
February 25, 2009 at 12:14 pm
Sorry for the late notice. I will not be able to make it to Edmonton tomorrow to present on BDD. I apologize to all the people who were planning to come and see ... (more)

First Presentation Of The Year – Next Week

From Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo's Blog
February 18, 2009 at 11:22 pm
The awesome gang up in Edmonton has invited me to come next week (February 26th) to give a presentation on Behavior Driven Development. It has been quite a long ... (more)

Books I Think Everyone Should Read

From Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo's Blog
February 17, 2009 at 5:00 am
The last couple of weeks has been a season of reading for me. None of the books are technical in nature but they are all books that I think everyone should read. ... (more)