Not sure what happened – I could remember smelling something burning, but I didn’t think much of it (I had both windows down, so could have easily been that) – then I notice my windows start fogging up – that’s not a good sign – and then I see white smoke rising out of the air vent next to the wind screen – that’s an even worse sign.

So I panic, pull myself off the road in a safe manner, and call MINI emergency services – half an hour later, a BMW mechanic in an estate pulls up behind me and asks me questions about the car, then starts sniffing around the engine. After muchos trouble shooting, he works out its a heating radiator leak, and the smoke is the antifreeze burning on hot engine parts – he said that would also explain why the floor mats are wet (never figured that out).

He arranges me to take the car to Cooper Wimbledon to have it serviced, which they promptly sort me out and basically steal my car and run tests on it and violate it in ways I never thought possible.

2 days later, they ring me up and say Its all done! Yay! They had to replace the heater matrix, the radiator, and did a coolant replacement for all the coolant that went burny burn. And they valet’ed my car, and washed it for free!

Its nice and shiny now!

But I just love Resharper too much, its the best tool around for speeding up development with Visual Studio. If you don’t have it, I suggest you go grab it now!

Anyway, back to my point with refactoring. I am writing a simple website (maybe with facebook capabilities, not sure yet) to display random quotes from GLaDOS – the senile deranged computer from "Portals" – I’m sorry if you don’t like her, I think she’s great, with excellent quotes such as

The Enrichment Center promises to always provide a safe testing environment. In dangerous testing environments, the Enrichment Center promises to always provide useful advice. For instance, the floor here will kill you. Try to avoid it.

And my favourite:

Did you know you can donate one or all of your vital organs to the Aperture Science Self Esteem Fund for Girls? It’s true!

Anyway! Keep going off a tangent. Resharper speeds up development of an application, and the way I seem to work, is I write the code, then refactor it to make it all shiny and proper. We go from this:

To this:

Via:

And other assorted Resharper menu items – the quickest (I find) is to use Control-Shift-R which will allow you to dynamically use a "Refactor this" menu that will pop up, and give you only the valid things you can do with Resharper (instead of a very large list with things greyed out, like in the menu).

Im currently running Resharper Nightly build #783 – it dosent seem too bad, but it still has errors. Unlike Derik, I cant leave Resharper (arguably the love of my life) alone, I want to feel her up and touch her inappropriately. Im not that fussed by the fact that she doesn’t have manners, or farts uncontrollably in bed, I still love her.

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