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Aaron Powell
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Aaron Powell writes LINQ to Fail, a personal blog at aaron-powell.com about web and programming. Since 2011, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-15, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Linked for a post on stubbing AJAX responses with mock objects, which one commenter says they have found handy for mocking jQuery AJAX calls.
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What Hacker News says?
Somewhat related is that Elijah showed Aaron Powell this some time ago and he blogged about it at http://aaron-powell.com/javascript/stubbing-ajax-responses-w... but used a different mock objects generator. This technique has come in quite handy, so thanks for showing Aaron this Elijah.
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