XBox 360 - Home Media Center
Integrating XBox 360 and Windows Home Media Center
Blog Posts
MANY articles on a wide array of topics. You’ll find a lot of my newer content is going to my YouTube channel first, but I do still blog occasionally.
Outlook Send Mail Infinite Loop - Message in Outbox
Last week I encountered a problem with Outlook that I'm happy to report I've just solved. I found a bunch of things on the Interwebs that looked like they might be useful, but none of the fixes there did the trick for me …
Laptop Rebuild - Essential Apps
When we last saw our hero, he had fallen victim to an evil plot to disable his computer’s ability to boot up. After great efforts at recovery, eventually he was forced to concede defeat to Vista and reinstall …
Updating Blog to Orchard and Switching Domains
Why I migrated my blog from Graffiti CMS to Orchard, including the migration process using BlogML and tips for getting started with Orchard.
Asus Zen Ultrabook First Impressions
Last week a received a new Asus UX31E Zenbook Ultrabook laptop computer, which I’ve been putting through the paces. I’d like to write up my thoughts on the unboxing and my initial impression of the machine, …
About Steve Smith (aka ardalis)
What’s an Ardalis? I pronounce Ardalis ar-DAL-us, but you’re welcome to pronounce it however you like. I started using it as my online username in the 90s because shockingly any consistent variation of …
Unit Test or Integration Test and Why You Should Care
There remains a fair bit of confusion about what constitutes which kind of test. Many developers are fairly new to testing, and tend to call any tests of their code " unit tests" even when they're dealing with something …
Run Your Unit Tests in Parallel to Maximize Performance
If you're at all serious about testing, at some point you're going to have a rather large suite of tests that need to run, and you'll find that your builds are taking longer than you would like because of how long the …
