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Tobin Harris

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• HTTP Status Code 408 - I'm a Tea Pot :)

  Posted: 02 Jul 2009 at 12:41 by Tobin Harris

  <p>I was trawling through <a href=' status codes</a> today on WikiPedia and found the <strong>418 - I&#8217;m a Tea Pot</strong> status code. How amusing :)</p>

• OSX MonoDevelop MVC?

  Posted: 25 Jun 2009 at 23:40 by Tobin Harris

  <p><a href=' C Reynolds blogged</a> about how he&#8217;s been playing with MonoDevelop on OSX. I thought I&#8217;d download it, and was pleased to see this&#8230;</p>

• New App for Writing Documents Online

  Posted: 12 Jun 2009 at 02:03 by Tobin Harris

  <p>I&#8217;m a big fan of <a href='; &#8211; an online project management tool. BaseCamp also gives you <a href=';, which are roughly analogous to shared, online MS Word Documents.</p>

• NHibernate: Calling Update Unnecessarily

  Posted: 11 Jun 2009 at 21:13 by Tobin Harris

  <p>I often see code that looks a bit like this:</p> <pre><code class='prettyprint'>public ActionResult UpdatePost(int id, FormCollection form)</code></pre>

• PDF Output With yUML, And Other Things...

  Posted: 04 Jun 2009 at 11:05 by Tobin Harris

  <p><a href='yUML'>; is less than a month old, and traffic has settled around 1000 visits a day. Users out there have generated well over 31,000 UML diagrams so far, wow!</p>

• Links for 2009-06-03 [del.icio.us]

  Posted: 04 Jun 2009 at 08:00

  Alex Young & The Sirens on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Videos Cousin of Chris Young!

• yUML Direction Control and Scaling

  Posted: 23 May 2009 at 11:17 by Tobin Harris

  <p>I really need to give <a href='; it&#8217;s own blog or news page or something :)</p> <p>Until then, a few things that are new with yUML.</p>

• Awesome Pencil and Paper iPhone Prototyping

  Posted: 21 May 2009 at 12:20 by Tobin Harris

  <p>There&#8217;s something beautifully creative about sketches. I&#8217;ve blogged about it before:</p> <ul> <li><a href='yuml-scruffy-hand-drawn-look-/'>Elite Game Artwork Scans</a></li> </ul>

• Notes on "Meeting the Challenge of Simplicity"

  Posted: 15 May 2009 at 23:26 by Tobin Harris

  <p>I recently watched <a href=' video on InfoQ of Giles Colborne give a talk on simplicity and user experience</a>. Whilst I watched it, I took notes. Putting these study notes on my blog might be useful to someone&#8230;</p>

• yUML Diagrams Look Cool On GitHub

  Posted: 07 May 2009 at 17:12 by Tobin Harris

  View Diagrams on GitHub I messed about with putting yUML diagrams on a GitHub gist, I think they work well with the GitHub style.

• yUML Scruffy Hand Drawn Look

  Posted: 07 May 2009 at 17:06 by Tobin Harris

  I thought it would be fun to have a scruffy hand drawn look for yUML diagrams, which I’m really fond of.

• A Touch Of Polish for yUML

  Posted: 04 May 2009 at 11:55 by Tobin Harris

  Thought it might be nice to add a touch of polish to yUML. We’ve now got: Soft Shadows

• yUML and jQuery for Large Diagrams

  Posted: 02 May 2009 at 12:55 by Tobin Harris

  yUML is for creating back of napkin style UML drawings, in a fast and hassle-free way. I much prefer small UML diagrams backed up with text, and yUML reflects this mind-set. If you do want to create larger diagrams, then this post might help you.

• yUML - For NOT Sketching UML Diagrams Online!

  Posted: 30 Apr 2009 at 22:25 by Tobin Harris

  yUML is a tool that lets you create UML diagrams using only <img> tags. Here’s an example:

• .NET Config for Multiple Developers

  Posted: 30 Apr 2009 at 18:19 by Tobin Harris

  Here’s a simple solution I just thought up for when you have multiple developers working on a project, and you want each to have their own connection string in Web.config (under source control).

• Rake and .NET: The Story Continues

  Posted: 09 Apr 2009 at 15:19 by Tobin Harris

  It seems more and more folks are using Rake to automate .NET development tasks. This is great news, and I hope we’ll soon see a community effort to make Rake even more valuable for the .NET developer.

• NHibernate in Action 2nd Edition - Your Opinion

  Posted: 09 Apr 2009 at 13:20 by Tobin Harris

  NHibernate in Action went on sale only three months ago, and the book team has turned it’s attention to a 2nd edition. The first step is for us to plan what the new version of the book will entail. So – dear readers – I’d like to get your opinion on this. What would you like to see in the 2nd edition?

• Chordasm

  Posted: 31 Mar 2009 at 18:05 by Tobin Harris

  I’m a song-writer, and as any song-writer knows, it’s easy to play the same old chords over and over. To get around this problem, I wrote a Ruby program that generates random songs for me. Well, random chord sequences to be precise. I play the chord sequences on the guitar, and incorporate ones I like into my songs.

• How Do You Organise Your Desktops/OSX Spaces?

  Posted: 26 Mar 2009 at 10:07 by Tobin Harris

  I’ve been playing with spaces over the last few days, mainly because I often find myself drowning in app windows.

• Google Got My Shorts

  Posted: 19 Mar 2009 at 16:06 by Tobin Harris

  I’ve joined the other billion people on the planet who’s been photographed by the Google Van, and promptly published on Google Maps (street view). This time I was minding my own business on my way to Zolv. Nice shorts!