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February 2007 - Posts

• Vancouver TechFest 2007 Presentation

  This past Saturday (Feb 24), I gave a presentation on Mock Objects at the first annual Vancouver Techfest . Jean-Paul Boodhoo was originally scheduled to give his amazing talk on Generics, but unfortunately was unable to attend and asked me to present Read More... Posted Monday, February 26, 2007 11:04 AM by Terry Thibodeau | 2 Comments Filed under: design patterns, Rhino mocks, mocks, presentations, conferences

• Rhino Mocks 3.0 Beta Released!

  Oren Eini has been hard at work on Rhino Mocks' support for generic methods (YAY!!) as well as some other nice updates. Take a look here . Read More... Posted Monday, February 19, 2007 2:13 PM by Terry Thibodeau | 0 Comments Filed under: TDD, Rhino mocks

• Pimp your OS! (Part 1)

  Finally, it's here! Pimp your OS, Part 1 . This screencast focuses on integrating the latest drivers, service packs, Windows updates, and hotfixes into your Windows XP (later, Vista) setup CD. Why would you want to do this, you ask? By using a slipstreamed Read More... Posted Thursday, February 15, 2007 12:00 PM by Terry Thibodeau | 1 Comments Filed under: Technology, tools, slipstream, Screencasts

• DRM at its finest...

  Before I took my daughter to school today, she was intently watching one of her cartoons. To get her out the door with minimal fuss, I had to promise that I'd record the show so she could watch it after school. So, I hit 'record' on the PVR (personal Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 13, 2007 7:22 PM by Terry Thibodeau | 2 Comments Filed under: Technology, rants, DRM

• Pimp your OS! (Series prequel)

  As a developer, I'd rather not waste my time on system configuration and setup. However, this is a necessary evil as I am very particular about my system configuration and tools that I like to have installed (and the sysadmins just don't get it :) ). Read More... Posted Thursday, February 01, 2007 11:28 AM by Terry Thibodeau | 1 Comments Filed under: slipstream, unattended