RubyMicrosoft - Martin Fowler talks about RoR and .Net

martinfowler.com — "So with JRuby pretty much here, the spotlight moves onto the other common managed code runtime - .NET. Microsoft's intentions for Ruby are currently much less clear..." read more...

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SequenceViz :: generate sequence diagrams from .NET assembly file

weblogs.asp.net — SequenceViz is a free open source tool to automatically generate sequence diagrams from .NET assemblies. read more...

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Continuous Integration with The Simpsons™

published 1 year, 8 months ago, submitted by simonech 1 year, 8 months ago

codeclimber.net.nz — Continuous Integration is useless if nobody knows about the results of the builds in a timely way. So why not shouting it with a "DOH!!" whenever a build is broken and with a "WOOHOO!!" whenever a build is successful? Download these 2 audio files and a few other here. read more...

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Who Tests The Tests?

haacked.com — If, according to TDD, you should write unit tests before you write the tests. Shouldn't you write tests for the tests, since the unit tests themselves are code? This post explains how to avoid Zeno's paradox here. read more...

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Bitsharp - BitTorrent library

published 1 year, 9 months ago, submitted by gavinjoyce 1 year, 9 months ago

mono-project.com — BitSharp is the product of Googles Summer of Code 2006. It is a complete BitTorrent suite of libraries which can be embedded in an application. The suite contains: 1. Client Library - Allows the uploading/downloading of torrents. 2. Tracker Library - Allows the hosting of .torrents. 3. Torrent Creator - Allows the creation and editing of .torrent files. All of these libraries were written with Mono in mind. As a result these libraries will function on any operating system that supports either the Microsoft .NET Framework or Mono Framework, be it Windows, Linux, MacOs or other. read more...

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DownloadExec Inline: A VS2003 add-in that lets you run a chunk of code

secretgeek.net — Highlight some code in Visual Studio 2003 -- press the 'exec selected code' -- and it will run immediately. Great for simple checks, such as string formatting, working out how methods work etc. Works with both C# and VB.net. (sorry to submit my own stuff -- i almost never do this but wanted to share in this case) read more...

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The reason why OSS isn't big in MS/.NET land?

published 1 year, 11 months ago, submitted by gavinjoyce 1 year, 11 months ago

weblogs.asp.net — "The reason is simple: Money. Microsoft land and now also .NET land has been and will be for some time to come a land where people are more or less thinking like "Oh, I need a control/tool for this, let's purchase a license of a commercial one I saw in an ad.". In the Java land and also in other areas, like of course the Linux world, people think in general a little different: If you need it, you either download a free, open source one, and if that one sucks, either improve it or write a better one." read more...

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Top 20 Funniest Geek Humor Bits of All Time

community-credit.com — I have put together a collection of the absolute funniest Geek Humor bits in the history of geek humor. Among them is "Nick Burns", "Internet Help Desk", "Keeping Your Parents Off of the Internet" and many others. It just doesn't get any funnier than these, especially if you are a computer geek. read more...

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