//Yonkly is not a backup service but I just added a new feature that lets you import your twitter messages into your yonkly account, so try it out.
Login then go to your profile page at http://yonkly.com/profile and click the "import twitter messages" link half way down the page.
It is smart enough to not import the [...]

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Tags: twitter, yonkly

//I spent a few days playing with Ruby on Rails a while back.  During the learning experience, there was one particular feature that I really liked.  It was the database migration scripts that get automatically generated for you.  I always wished I had something like this in the windows (asp.net) world.  It turns out there [...]

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Tags: database, migration, schema

//I am working on a feature that will let me import twitter messages to yonkly and wanted to write a test for it.  The method is private and I couldn’t get the unit test to see it.  I also didn’t want to use the private accessor class generate by Visual Studio because I was mocking [...]

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Tags: mstest, tdd, testing private methods, unit testing, vsts

//I have a method that handles sending of emails.  I wrote it so that it would run asynchronously, so that it won’t slow down the web app.  It looks like this:

protected static void SendMail(string to, string subject, string body)
{
try
{
using [...]

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