So, I'm sitting down this evening to get a couple of things done, one of which is subscribing to a magazine that I'll need when I finally finish the basement remodel.  The subscription price is a very reasonable $12.97.  I fill out the form and when I get to the credit card information, I realize my wallet is across the room.  Now - I usually don't fall for the "bill me later" option when subscribing to a magazine.  If I don't pay for it now, I'm pretty sure that the invoice will get lost amongts all of the "we know you just subscribed, but this is your REALLY REALLY ABSOLUTELY FINAL OFFER TO RENEW AT THE GUARENTEED LOWEST PRICE IN THE HISTORY OF LOWEST PRICES" post cards.  The invoice will go unpaid and I'll be a bad periodical reading citizen.  But this time I decided to be a lazy shit, throw caution to the wind, and check the "bill me later" box.  Submit.

I'm greeted with a "WAIT!!!! You selected Bill Me Later" screen.  Ahh, catch time right?  They want me to pay extra for the bill me later option, right?  Nope.

They offer me an even lower price to pay with a credit card right now.  The $12.97 subscription is now offered for $10.97.  Now that got me off of my ass to get my wallet.

Sometimes being lazy pays off.  Time to go work out.

I'm planning on attending, assuming I can get domestic clearance.  My former colleague Nate Kohari will be speaking.  My former employer is a sponsor.  It should be interesting.

The ultimate developer tool guy, Scott Hanselman, hasn't been a Microsoft employee very long, but has already liberated an internal utility.  Very shiny.

I really hope this gets put on CodePlex.  It doesn't work well with regions.  I'd love the flexibility to dock it to the left of the code pane (since I already have ReSharper on the right).  It would be cool if it respected my custom color scheme.  I'm a dark background guy when it comes to coding and navigating with a black on white display is a little disconcerting.

But overall, it's a very cool idea with a lot of promise.  Keep up the good work - I know it is probably a very big pain to cut through the red tape to get something like that released.  It is very much appreciated!

I'm starting to grok xUnit - and I like it.  I only have two wishes at this point - a plug-in for Resharper 4 and the ability to execute a single test (or a subset of the tests- take your pick) from the UI.

I don't know how I missed mscui.net, being in the healthcare field and all.  Huge thanks to Sam for linking to the Patient Demonstrator.

I'm thinking about starting up a daily or weekly digest of links that are of interest to me.  It would be part World of Warcraft, a lot of .NET development, with a sprinking of randomness that would in all liklihood be only of interest to me.  All I need is a name...

I kindof like "FrameworkDuJour".

Update: I'm now leaning towards "Dalaran .Net"

just testing

I'm looking for a code coverage tool for C#.  Anybody have a recommendation?

I have been using ReSharper since around the 2.0 timeframe.  I am completely dependent on it for my daily work, but I am very frustrated that they still haven't come out the 4.0 version.  I've been running the nightly builds for a few months, but that is hit-or-miss.  I really want a stable version that has full support for the newest language features.  I flirted with the idea of going with CodeRush, but my fingers already are fluent in ReSharper and I've already invested in ReSharper.  I can get 4.0 for an upgrade price vs. $250 for CodeRush.  Do the math.

I have added twitter status to the sidebar --->

I have upgraded to DasBlog 2.0.  Let me know if you see anything strange...

Step 1 in bringing this blog back to life will be upgrading my DasBlog instance to the latest version.  But before I do that, I need to backup my existing site.  A year of baby pictures has meant that my weblog folder is getting quite large and I have no decent FTP client.  I used CuteFTP back in the day, but can't get download.com to let me download.  Anybody have a suggestion for a cheap (ideally free) FTP client that I can use to help manage the blog?

A couple of guys I know are starting up a blog challenge.  It is just the push I needed to bring this blog back to life.  I've been playing around with twitter for the past couple of weeks and have managed to get myself hooked on microblogging, but I am feeling the limitations of 140 characters.  Sometimes I just have more to say.  So here goes nothing.

If you are a family member and are wondering where my pictures went, you probably have a bookmark that needs to be updated.  The link to the pictures only site is http://www.briangraf.com/weblog/CategoryView,category,personal.aspx