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good reading on Selasa, 27 Februari 2007
To do this we setup a project in VS 2005 and added only 1.1 references. We created our test assembly with 2.0 components such as rhino mocks. Everything built and all tests were passing.Now setting up only 1.1 references is one thing, but enforcing 2.0 [...]
More about → Targeting 1.1 with VS 2005
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good reading on Senin, 26 Februari 2007

I came to know about a food event known as, Muffin Monday Round Up, while surfing around for muffin creations. I decided to take part in this event, since I love baking muffins, and furthermore, it is hosted by Elena of [...]
More about → Mandarin Orange Muffins
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good reading on Minggu, 25 Februari 2007
26 Miles of Fun!I learned something new:My fancy running sneakers that provide excellent air circulation aren't so good for cold weather biking... my feet were like bricks... I didn't fall off the bike, I fell when I got off the bike because my feet [...]
More about → First Group Ride Outside
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I am always skeptical when it comes to low-fat desserts and bakes. I really doubt they will taste as good. However, after the feasting and binging on Chinese New Year food and goodies, it's time that I try making something [...]
More about → Low-Fat Orange Yogurt Cake
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good reading on Jumat, 23 Februari 2007

This post has got nothing to do with baking or cooking. Now, unless you like gardening and flowers, you can skip this posting ;)I was pleasantly surprised when I watered my plants this morning. A flower bud has sprout out [...]
More about → Violets are blue
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good reading on Kamis, 22 Februari 2007

I usually cook simple one-dish meals for lunch as there are only the 3 of us. I am really fortunate that my 2 boys are not picky eaters. They eat whatever I cook. A few weeks ago, I made them fried noodles which tasted like [...]
More about → Quick & Easy Fried Vermicelli aka Fried Bee Hoon
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good reading on Rabu, 21 Februari 2007
Let's you build xna content w/o Game Studio Express!!You can get it hereThank you!! And thanks Kris for sending me this link [...]
More about → XNA Content Builder
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good reading on Senin, 19 Februari 2007
Tonight I played gears with some women; it was the second time I got to play with women since I signed up for gamerchix.I'm not so good at multi-player gears (I must say I do rock the single player campaign though!), I don't completely suck, but I like [...]
More about → losing to a girl
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Muffins again?!Sorry, but I couldn't help but to bake muffins for breakfast today. As the CNY public holidays are still on, most of the stalls at the hawker centre or coffeeshops will not open for business until tomorrow. [...]
More about → Banana Blueberry Muffins
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good reading on Minggu, 18 Februari 2007

Made these brownies last night. I have refrained from baking anything with chocolate lately, as both my kids have been unwell for the past weeks. Upon their request, I baked these for their breakfast today.I followed the [...]
More about → A Tower of Brownies
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Oksana, I'm looking at the War Room Crew links over there and its seriously lacking estrogen... Come on now, this is Oxygen, and we need to represent the women developers of the world!!! Where's your blog [...]
More about → Oksana, where are you??
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Register HereThanks for the link Lu [...]
More about → Code Camp Registration is Now Open
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Yes, I've done it... I've whored myself... stupid rewards... What I've learned is that I really do not enjoy playing a lot of video games and even with rewards, I still don't. But, I managed to pull myself through and figured I'd help some people out [...]
More about → Getting all the achievements in Madden 06
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good reading on Sabtu, 17 Februari 2007
I went to the gym today for the first time since I had to postpone training and it felt really great! I was suppose to bike 10 miles or for 30 minutes, I think whichever came first. I worked really hard, hoping to finish the 10 miles in 25 minutes; [...]
More about → Back to training
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The next step in my quest to only code my xna games in team edition was working with graphics. This proved to be a little more difficult because graphics need to be built inside Xna projects.So, I needed to break my rules a little... New rule:Graphics [...]
More about → Xna, graphics and team edition, oh my
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good reading on Kamis, 15 Februari 2007

I was crazy enough to try making 2 types of Chinese New Year cookies this morning!A few weeks ago, I was telling myself that I should not be making any CNY cookies as store-bought ones are so easily available, and most [...]
More about → Chinese New Year Cookies Part II
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I'm busy writing today... too many meeting distractions...I decided to check in with the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society today since I haven't heard about when training for my century ride was starting. And it turns out it started 2 weeks ago! I'm 20 [...]
More about → They forgot about me...
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Looks like I'll be giving 2 presentations at Code Camp 2007 in NYC with a fellow developer from Oxygen, Oksana Udovitska. We're hosting two talks, The Gentle Art of Pair Programming and Testing in C# with RhinoMocks. Hopefully, people will learn something [...]
More about → Code Camp 2007
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one thing that can make your tests real messy, real fast is duplicated code. however, with mocks, its really hard to get rid of duplication and keep your code readable.a simple first step to uniform tests is a base test class that you inherit from in [...]
More about → base test class
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i love mocks. i really do. if i could, i would marry mocks, have lots of mock babies, be a grandmock; you get the idea...the top reasons i love mocks:1. focus only on what you are testing2. other classes won't break your tests3. create new interfaces [...]
More about → all about the mocks
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good reading on Rabu, 14 Februari 2007

Oyakudon is one of the easiest and simplest dinner that I cook for my family. It is one of the Japanese donburi dishes or rice bowl dishes that have meat and vegetables simmered together over rice. It is made of chicken [...]
More about → Oyakudon
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good reading on Selasa, 13 Februari 2007
don't declare a variable...try{some code...}catch (ExceptionIWantToCatch){}No warnings, no cheesy statements to get rid of warnings...If you don't care about the exception type, just catc [...]
More about → if you don't need the exception...
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good reading on Senin, 12 Februari 2007

I finally made one of those Chinese New Year must have...Kueh Bangkit. These are biscuits made with tapioca flour and coconut milk. The tapioca flour has to be fried with pandan leaves before it can be used. This is one [...]
More about → Chinese New Year Cookies
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Code without resharper and visual assist that is...After 10 minutes of my first Xna tutorial, I decided my first task would be to do all my developing in team edition. Being my own customer, I made up the following criteria:1. I can create a new c# library [...]
More about → i just can't do it...
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good reading on Minggu, 11 Februari 2007

This is the first time I bought blueberries from the supermarket. It has never occurred to me to eat this fruit as it is not as common as strawberries or even cherries. I bought them specially to bake blueberry muffins. [...]
More about → Blueberry Muffins
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good reading on Kamis, 08 Februari 2007

George Bernard Shaw once said,"You don't get tired of muffins, but you don't find inspiration in them."I certainly agreed with the first part of the sentence, but not the second...maybe, during those days, there were only [...]
More about → Banana-raisin Oat Bran Muffins
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good reading on Rabu, 07 Februari 2007

I have decided that I will add in a category "Simple Dishes" to my postings here. I am not a good cook, in fact I can't really cook! I have been cooking for the family for almost a year, but till now, I can only make simple [...]
More about → Curry Chicken
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In addition to this very exciting blog, another goal for the year is to experiment with a new technology. Originally I was going to play around with Ruby, but I've decided to try out XNA instead. I was all psyched and ready to embark on the journey to [...]
More about → XNA
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good reading on Selasa, 06 Februari 2007

I finally picked up the courage to make this cake.Saw this video clip from youtube while searching for sanrio products. My 5 yr old is a fan of Cinnamoroll, one of the many sanrio characters. We were watching a video clip [...]
More about → Piano Cake
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good reading on Minggu, 04 Februari 2007

We had a little gathering at my friend's place over the weekend. We had a full spread of Korean food for dinner. One of my friends cooked the Korean dishes...there were spicy rice cakes, kimchi soup, jajian mien (Korean [...]
More about → Korean Fare