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Comment on Probably giving up my CSharp Github API by stuart

stuart — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:58:09 +0000

I've had a bit of success with the library I linked to, which is specifically for Github. See the client I've been tinkering with.

Comment on Probably giving up my CSharp Github API by Paul

Paul — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:40:41 +0000

You should consider using Spring.NET Social:

http://www.springframework.net/rest/
http://www.springframework.net/social/

And a real world example:
http://www.springframework.net/social-twitter/

Comment on Unit Testing Events by stuart

stuart — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 20:32:59 +0000

I think that the Reactive Extensions might be a little bit of overkill when you just want to assert that your class or library is actually raising the events that it says it will.

Comment on Damn you empty catch block by stuart

stuart — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 20:28:52 +0000

COM Interop is a dirty, and necessary evil, and I’ve had to do my fair share of it. Exception handling can be a pain, admittedly. A lot of the time though, I’d still rather add a log or trace message rather than just leave it empty.

This blog post was more aimed toward the more general case of someone swallowing an exception either because they were lazy or didn’t see the benefit of logging the error or some such.

Comment on Unit Testing Events by Bob

Bob — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 19:54:52 +0000

I point you in the direction of Rx.net which may help you write stuff like this even nicer

Comment on Damn you empty catch block by Bob

Bob — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 19:53:07 +0000

COM interop makes you do it. There are some horrendous COM APIs out there and those that dont return S_OK throw an excaption in .net, which is horrible. I recently had to use the Task Scheduler COM API and it had an unqueryable dictionary – the only way to test was to Get and catch the exception which simply was the HRESULT saying key not found.

Sometimes an empty catch block is better than a shitty COM API bombing out your app when the HRSEULT is actually perfectly valid……

Comment on Damn you empty catch block by Calum Leslie

Calum Leslie — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 11:04:22 +0000

At a previous workplace of mine I found that a wrapper, which had only a “try” and a “finally” (it was designed to clean up after exceptions), was eating exceptions. I investigated to find that between the lovingly-crafted “try” and “finally” blocks, someone had inserted the following:

catch( Exception e ) {
  int i = 0;
}

An svn blame later and I was over at the culprits desk. Apparently the code was there so that he “could debug it”; he just needed a line of code where an exception would be caught that he could put a breakpoint on.

Comment on Let’s write an API library for Github by stuart

stuart — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 19:17:46 +0000

Glad you like it

There are more posts in the queue.

Comment on Let’s write an API library for Github by John Sheehan

John Sheehan — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 18:47:44 +0000

Great post Stu!

Comment on cakePHP with Eclipse by Stas

Stas — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 13:48:14 +0000

I use Codelobster PHP Edition with special PHPCake plug-in.