My name is Christian Specht, and this is my personal site.
I'm a software developer and I use this site to feature my projects and (occasionally) some blogging.

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Batch File Cheat Sheet

Recently, I had some tasks at work that required me to write a lot of batch files. Here are some things about batch files that I either learned or re-discovered in the process: Don't use ...

May 12 2013 | batch files, command line

Excluding integration tests in NUnit's GUI, part 2 - Specifying a fixture

In the first part of this post, I used NUnit's [Category] attribute to separate my integration tests from my unit tests, but I wasn't 100% satisfied with the result. So I looked for a better ...

Apr 16 2013 | nunit, .net, unit testing

Excluding integration tests in NUnit's GUI, part 1 - Using categories

After writing unit tests for my personal projects for a while, now is the first time that I'm writing integration tests. So far, none of the projects I wrote tests for did involve any external ...

Apr 09 2013 | nunit, .net, unit testing

How to display Markdown files from other sites...this time in Blogofile

This is a follow-up to How to display Markdown files from other sites in WordPress. When I migrated this site from WordPress to Blogofile, I had the same problem again: How do I display Markdown ...

Feb 17 2013 | markdown, blogofile, php

Switched from WordPress to Blogofile

Like many other developers did before me, I just switched this site from WordPress to a static site generator (Blogofile in my case). The complete source code is now on Bitbucket. There wasn't anything particularly ...

Jan 29 2013 | blogofile, wordpress

Getting NUnit 2.6.0 to work in a .NET 4.0 solution

I just tried to use NUnit 2.6.0 in a .NET 4.0 solution, but it failed to recognize my test assembly. No matter which runner I used, NUnit always said that it couldn’t find any tests: ...

Jun 24 2012 | nunit, .net, unit testing

How to test NuGet packages without polluting the NuGet package listings

I just published my first NuGet package a few days ago. The documentation about creating and publishing packages is good, but I didn’t feel comfortable with releasing my package into the wild without testing it ...

May 28 2012 | nuget, visual studio, .net

Bitbucket Backup has 50 followers on Bitbucket!

As of today, Bitbucket Backup has hit the 50 follower mark on Bitbucket: Of course, 50 followers isn’t that much, given that other projects on Bitbucket have several hundreds, and some other projects (on GitHub, ...

May 01 2012 | bitbucket, bitbucket backup, backup

RoboShell Backup 1.1 - now with TrueCrypt integration

I just published RoboShell Backup 1.1. Apart from minor and cosmetical changes (nicer-looking setup, more documentation), there is one “big” new feature: RoboShell Backup now supports writing to USB drives encrypted with TrueCrypt. If you ...

Apr 30 2012 | roboshell backup, backup, truecrypt