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Nearly every application I write has a project called ConsoleDriver in it. This project is almost always the same as it is just a main routine that create the class that starts my program, wraps it in an exception block, usually configures logging, and waits until I hit enter or CTRL-C to signal the application to exit.

I held out as long as I could. I promise. I fought it to the very end, but in the end, I caved – I bought an iPhone 3gs 32 GB. How could I, a rabid non-Mac-er do this? Well, it started when my Zune 120 GB started corrupting my audio books.

Inspired by Scott’s post Hanselminutes – This is usually the podcast that helps to clarify some topic I had been meaning to learn more about. Sometimes a bit too focused on the web end of the spectrum, but still a solid source on what is out there and what is coming up.

A few weeks ago I read the blog post Git and command-line fear by James Gregory . He argues against the common Git on Windows complaint of poor Windows support. While I appreciate James’ position that this is not entirely true, and that most people do associate Windows support with GUI based tools or Visual Studio integration, I do disagree with his assertion that command line tooling is a valid use case.

In my recent post, IoC Challenge – Multiple interfaces to the same singleton instance, I posted an IoC challenge to the community. I also mentioned that on the Ninject discussion groups , a suggestion was posted on how to solve this using Ninject .