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How (and Why) to Sign Your Code

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The nuts and bolts of code signing aren’t taught well by most available references. Here’s a few that do a decent job.

This is a rare gem on MSDN – an article that actually covers it’s subject matter in detail.

Here is another nice article on the subject.

NUnit Testing in Vb.Net

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I spent my evening Vb.Net“>creating NUnit tests for Firefly.

Overall, I’m a big fan of NUnit.

So what is NUnit? It’s a .Net friendly framework for running unit tests – a way to automate some quality assurance steps.

A screenshot of NUnit testing Firefly

I’m looking forward to having a strong set of NUnit tests to let me do some code refactoring of Firefly, confident that NUnit will let me know if I break anything in the process.

Now that I have your interest, read Vb.Net“>this article and this one to get started with your own NUnit tests.

The Dangers of Federation Consoles

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I’m compiling this list of the many fatalities that have been associated with command consoles exploding in science fiction, particularly Star Trek. This is my civic duty to influence our world for the better.

Please login and comment here if you have an incident to add to the list as it grows.