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Matthias Lischka

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  1. Creative Test Ignoring

    A short list of different ways of ignoring unit tests that I came across so far. Just for fun - no serious content. …


  2. Do not comment. Refactor.

    Whenever I’m tempted to write a comment or I see a colleague writing one I try to find a way to refactor the code to a point where its intend becomes so clear that any additional comment would be redundant. …


  3. Deploying to GitHub Releases via AppVeyor

    Today I went through the pain of automating my release deployment via AppVeyor. Of course it turned out to be easy and I’m stupid since it was painful for me. However, now that everything is up and running I wanted to share my results. …


  4. Travis CI and gh-pages branch

    To my surprise Travis CI does ignore the gh-pages branch by default. The branch will not be listed in Travis CI and builds will not be triggered. My problem was that I had a repository with only one gh-pages branch. It contained some static html content that i wanted to html-proof. …


  5. Windows 10 Upgrade still for free (outdated)

    Windows 10 free upgrade for customers who use assistive technologies. You don’t really have to use assistive technologies though! …