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title: "A Long Day!"
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published: "2003-05-14T15:20:00"
updated: "2003-05-14T15:20:00"
tags: [".Net Original"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Arrgh! It's been a hell of a long day! Imagine going 7:45 - 20:15 head to head with something that you thought you could do in an hour! I'll post heavily on it later (And a rant about .Net as well) but for now I'll just…"
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# A Long Day!

By Roy Osherove May 14, 2003 In [.Net Original](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-original)

**Historical article** · Originally published May 14, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

Arrgh! It's been a hell of a long day!

Imagine going 7:45 - 20:15 head to head with something that you thought you could do in an hour! I'll post heavily on it later (And a rant about .Net as well) but for now I'll just say that Parsing files with VB was easier(!!) in some ways...

Argh! :(  [![](https://osherove.com/img/wb/637bbf62_www.smiley-faces.com_smilies_angry.gif)](https://osherove.com/img/wb/637bbf62_www.smiley-faces.com_smilies_angry.gif)

## More in .Net Original

[All posts in .Net Original](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-original)

- May 17, 2003

    ### [UI Threading Helper Classes](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/17/ui-threading-helper-classes-1.html)

- May 15, 2003

    ### [System.Text.Encoding.Tip](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/15/systemtextencodingtip.html)

- May 13, 2003

    ### [Strip HTML tags from a string using regular expressions](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/13/strip-html-tags-from-a-string-using-regular-expressions.html)

- May 12, 2003

    ### [June Is Officially here](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/12/june-is-officially-here.html)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

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Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/