Jason Bock's Weblog - Recent Comments

What?!

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:21:07 GMT

Eric

A-Ha is AWESOMELY RADICAL!

I love crappy 80s music.

Mocking HttpContext

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:21:17 GMT

Eric

I didn't want to say it without fact-checking it first, but you can in fact mock the HttpContext in ASP.NET MVC!

Example:

http://sebastienlachance.com/2008/05/08/mocking-the-httpcontext-in-aspnet-mvc/

I also saw Religulous after the Twin Cities Developers Guild meeting tonight at a theater in Edina. It was definitely humorous, but a bit tedious at times and embarrassingly one-sided. Are all people who believe in god crazy nuts praying for Armageddon and the subsequent Rapture? This movie seems to think so. I don't know. Maybe that's what it's like in some places down South? Living here in Minneapolis I really don't get the sense that most people buy into the whole Adam and Eve or Noah and his Ark stories as literal fact. Anyway, I'd recommend it on DVD when it comes out, or if you're dying to see it check it out in the theater. It definitely has a lot of laughs. Religion is an easy target... :)

throw a pillow

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:51:03 GMT

justin chase

I just chuck a pillow at my cat whenever he's being annoying at night. He seems to get it since he's pretty quiet these days.

well...

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 01:36:45 GMT

pcomeau

If they are unpainted hardwood doors I would suggest lemon oil (from the hardware store, not William Sonoma like one friend of mine once did.)

Double face tape would be another option.

Not sure what else that would be kid safe.

Responses

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 18:59:01 GMT

Jason Bock

Gim,

I can't tell if you're serious or kidding.

Chris,

Good point, but that's using a 3rd-party tool. Hopefully in a future version they refactor this feature a bit.

Jeff,

You had me until you said, "I like boo" :P

Software Engineer

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 17:04:01 GMT

Jeff LeBert

I found automatic properties fairly useless for the same reason you pointed out and also that you can't do readonly. I love the readonly keyword and hate that I can't use it with automatic properties.

I think a good syntax instead of this.autofield is to just use the property name. You code would look like inside the setter:
this.SettableId = value;
The only problem with this is that it looks like a recursive call. If we ignore that part and just modify the C# compiler to translate the code into setting the compiler generated backing field then life would be great. Of course, the compiler would only do this inside the setter.

I was thinking we could have a similar solution for the readonly issue. Mark the property as readonly and don't specify a setter. In the constuctor, and only in the constructor, you could use this.SettableId to set the value. This is basically what readonly does to a field anyway.

And now, to make this comment non-relevant, I like boo. ;-)

an excellent book

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 03:53:46 GMT

Rick Cochrane

Jason - very much agree. I found The End of Faith to be a great book, but significantly more difficult to get through than Letter to a Christian Nation. There were a couple of chapters that were pretty heady as well, but overall, still well worth the time.

Letter to a Christian Nation is simply one of the best uses of 2 hours of your time that you'll find. He clearly is passionate, but presents things in a persuasive (but objective) way.

There is a refactoring to help...

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 23:20:37 GMT

Chris Brandsma

There is a refactoring to help with that in ReSharper called "To property with backing field", you get it with an alt-enter.

But I still agree with you, I shouldn't have to refactor that much to get there.