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Quality and Code Coverage

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:10:17 GMT

It's an age-old question: should our team's goal be 100% coverage? A valid question, but one I've never much cared about in practice. The idea is that the team, all practicing TDD, should dutifully measure and add unit tests until they reach the assumed pinnacle of unit testing: 100% coverage.

Subtext 2 supports OpenID

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:46:02 GMT

Jon explains how OpenID works in Subtext 2 and how to configure it.

Testability in .Net

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 22:38:46 GMT

Your environment can have a profound effect on how you develop software. The details of what I discuss here have zero practical meaning outside of the .Net world (though you can probably find parallels in other environments). That's because .Net developers have access to tools that invalidate rules of software design that are fundamentally important elsewhere (before you question whether an environment can effect what is good design, consider the difference between good design in C and, say, Prolog). For .Net, the free availability of a tool like Typemock makes a major design consideration simply disappear-namely, testability. Typemock literally robs the term "testability" of meaning in .Net design considerations. That's a freedom that should leave other developers gasping in envy.

TDD or POUT

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 01:31:02 GMT

Because Unit Testing is the plain-Jane progenitor of Test Driven Development, it's kind of unfair that it doesn't have an acronym of its own. After all, it's hard to get programmer types to pay attention if they don't have some obscure jargon to bandy about. UT is too awkward, besides being a state abbreviation in the U.S., so for this post (and, if it catches on, future posts as well) I'll borrow from the telco folks and call unit testing Plain Old Unit Testing.

Test Supported Development (TSD) is not Test Driven Development (TDD)

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:38:20 GMT

"Test Supported Development" (TSD) intends to characterize the creation of tests during ANY/ALL stages of development, that is, tests are not necessarily created before their respective System Under Test (SUT), but not necessarily created as an afterthought, either...

TDD Proven Effective! Or is it?

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:46:02 GMT

So when Phil Haack announced that Research Supports the Effectiveness of TDD I was more than a little interested in seeing what the linked report actually contained.

Dependency Injection Objection

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:01:04 GMT

"The amount of heat I anticipate receiving is so disproportional to the probable light gained that it makes me hesitate."

Bug Driven Development

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:31:03 GMT

Phil Haack says that if you don't pick a better methodology, you'll slip into Bug Driven Development.

Deciding When to Use Depencency Injection

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 20:01:02 GMT

Expressing the struggles of deciding when to use Dependency Injection and, more importantly, when not to use it.

Open source .NET libraries you should be already using

Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:46:03 GMT

As we know, there are many good, enterprise level, open source libraries, frameworks and projects implemented in Java. Most of them are being ported into different platforms like .NET and PHP, so developers are migrating to the these platforms with their familiar tools. For example, i have been using Ant, JUnit, Log4J, iText and many mores when i was developing in Java, but now i am still using Log4Net and Nunit in my current

Self-Contained Unit Tests

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:18:12 GMT

Using content files to put configuration and test files in the executing directory for Unit Test dlls helps keep your Unit Tests free of external dependencies.

19 Eponymous Laws Of Software Development

Wed, 18 Jul 2007 06:31:02 GMT

My favourite - Hofstadter's Law: "A task always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law."

Lightbox and Subtext Galleries Integration

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 13:16:01 GMT

integrate Lightbox JS into Subtext's photo galleries

SubSonic DOH Moments - CreatedBy and ModifiedBy

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 12:31:01 GMT

In this first post in a series of posts called SubSonic DOH! Moments I cover a few handy tips I've stumbled across along the way - essentialy mistakes I've made and lessons learned.

Asshole driven development

Fri, 22 Jun 2007 08:46:02 GMT

The software industry might be the world's greatest breeding ground for new systems of management. From Agile, to Extreme Programming , to Test Driven Development (TDD), the acronyms and frameworks keep piling up. Why?

I CAN HAS A .NET COMPILR?

Thu, 21 Jun 2007 06:31:01 GMT

A programming language with compilers for many platforms including .NET, based on the captions featured in the popular LOLCat images found in the Internet.

Unit Test Web Code Without A Web Server Using HttpSimulator

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:16:01 GMT

Haacked introduces a new HttpSimulator class that he put together to help you unit test your asp.net code. Fluent interface, access to session and application variables, a working MapPath... wow!

The Most Useful .NET Utility Classes Developers Tend To Reinvent Rathe

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 05:46:01 GMT

Useful framework tips on paths from Phil Haack.

Sql Server: IsNullOrEmpty function

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 08:01:01 GMT

A familiar C# function in T-SQL. Usefull to keep it handy

Tip: Put Connection Strings in Their Own Configuration File

Fri, 08 Jun 2007 09:31:02 GMT

This post explain how to split the connection string out into a new configuration file, user.config. Doing this should make day to day development easier for our development team by reducing the number of merge conflicts in web.config.

The True Story Behind LINQ to SQL

Thu, 07 Jun 2007 05:01:01 GMT

An architect's story of how LINQ to SQL came to be. "For the sake of LINQ and the customer in general, we took up the OR/M torch officially, announcing our intention internally and starting the political nightmare that became my life for the next three years."

Strongly-typed Stored Procedures Using ADO.Net

Wed, 30 May 2007 10:43:21 GMT

The evils of relying on MS DAAB for stored procedures is overcome by using ADO.Net 2.0 for the built-in strongly-typed access to stored procedures.

Strongly Typed Stored Procedures Using Subsonic

Wed, 30 May 2007 08:46:01 GMT

In general, Subsonic is most productive when combining its code generation with its dynamic query engine and Active Record. But sometimes, your stuck with Stored Procedures and want to make the best of it. Subsonic, via the sonic.exe command line tool, can generate strongly typed stored procedure wrappers saving you from writing a lot of boilerplate code.

Sierpinski Triangle - An Introduction into Silverlight by Example

Thu, 31 May 2007 07:16:01 GMT

I've put together a beginner's introduction into Silverlight on CodeProject.com. The article covers how to use Silverlight to create the famous Sierpinki Triangle fractal. It's really meant to help someone who wants to create their first Silverlight experience, but then again maybe that's you?

EntitySpaces 2007 Released

Wed, 30 May 2007 00:31:01 GMT

The EntitySpaces 2007 (ES2007) Architecture for the Microsoft .NET Framework was released to production on May 28th, 2007. The EntitySpaces team would like to thank both our customers and those evaluating EntitySpaces for working hand in hand with us on the ES2007 release. The first ES2007 beta was posted on March 4th and thus began the customer feedback / defect reporting cycle with new versions following quickly as advancements were made. You have truly helped us to make EntitySpaces 2007 a very solid offering for those developing for the Microsoft .NET Framework. We are particularly pleased with some of the mobile development that is beginning to take root. We strive hard through our forums to hear you and allow you to shape the architecture you have invested in. We also work very hard to provide high quality support on our forums and to make ourselves available to our customers. ES2007 is a major advancement over it's predecessor (1.5.3) released on December 30th, 2006, these are just some of the new features.