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KazenConf Resources are Coming Online

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:01:48 GMT

Even though the Continuous Improvement in Software Development Conference may be over, there is still much work being done to distill and distribute the knowledge, value, and magic that happened made KaizenConf 2008 the great success it was. The community is working hard to process and upload several hundred Gigabytes of video, we promise! Steven has links to all of the important sites, the wiki, and several of the videos that are already posted. Enjoy!

Three Simple Rhino Mocks Rules

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:46:13 GMT

Jimmy Bogard shows how he uses the new Rhino Mocks syntax, and three short rules for using it.

Separate Assemblies != Loose Coupling

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:16:07 GMT

read and learn

Request for Help: Need better guidance for beginners

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:01:02 GMT

A call to harms for helping beginners. This time from a pro that realizes the need.

TDD design trade-offs and junk food

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 01:26:20 GMT

From the article: "When I first started doing TDD, many of the new designs that came out of this practice seemed backwards and counterproductive at first. After all, I wound up with many more classes, lots of interfaces, and most interfaces had exactly one implementation."

Subversion Support Comes to CodePlex. Sorta'

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:01:02 GMT

A little publicized feature lets you use Subversion to access project hosted on CodePlex - without the need to run SvnBridge locally!

Why SOLID? Gimme an "S"!

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:26:34 GMT

The first in what looks to be series of posts in which Dave Laribee dives into the reasons why you should care about the SOLID principles, and what do they buy you.

Identifing Waste, the Lean Way

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:16:17 GMT

As mentioned in a previous blog post, waste elimination is usually the most obvious and least resistant way to improve value and flow in a product. So I'm just going to jump right into some of the waste factors that are usually easy to identify, evaluate, modify and sustain their solutions in software product development. Not going to cover all forms of waste, just the most common ones.

Getting Started With jQuery QUnit for Client-Side Javascript Testing

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:52:00 GMT

Your First QUnit Test To start testing, you'll need to start by creating an HTML page (MyFooTests.htm, for example). This page will need to reference the jquery core JS file, testrunner.js, testsuite.css, as well as the JS file containing the code you're going to be testing. Lastly, the page will need some special HTML at the bottom with well-known ID's so that QUnit can display its output. When you're done, you should have a rough skeleton like this:

Community Reality Check: Is INETA a concrete life raft?

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:49:18 GMT

As an attempt to continually improve my contributions to the community, I'm trying to determine the value I'm generating through the volunteering of my time. What, dear reader, would you say is INETA's place in today's ever changing world of .NET?

First Thoughts on Wrox Beginning ASP.NET MVC

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:16:02 GMT

Simone Chiaretta writes about the new Wrox book that he and Keyvan Nayyeri are writing and is entitled Beginning ASP.NET MVC. This book targets beginner ASP.NET MVC developers.

.NET 3.5 SP1 Get*CustomModifiers bugs

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:46:03 GMT

Oren Eini describes new bugs in .NET 3.5 SP1 with ParameterInfo.GetRequiredCustomModifiers and ParameterInfo.GetOptionalCustomModifiers

Free Visual Studio File Explorer Add-in

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:31:03 GMT

The Visual Studio File Explorer Add-in (sexy name we know, but hey, it's self documenting) is a free Tool Window add-in for VS 2008 that provides a Windows Explorer style file system view. It's particularly useful for performing routine file system tasks without the need to "context switch" away from Visual Studio, which can be time-consuming over the course of days and weeks. It is shell-enabled so extensions like TortoiseSVN work too.

Subtext 2.0 "Poseidon" Released!

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:46:02 GMT

Subtext 2.0 is hot off the CI Server and the new bits are packed with a metric crap-load of bug fixes, new features, and patches.

Fluent NHibernate and those sweet LINQ repositories

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:16:02 GMT

Hidden gems in this cool open source library.

Visual Studio Theme Generator

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:16:02 GMT

A fun little ASP.NET MVC Application I wrote to generate Visual Studio themes based off of 3 given colors. I have always felt that selecting every color to make a decent theme is way too repetitive. This web application automatically chooses complements / contrasts based off your initial color selections (and uses jQuery to let you preview your theme before creating). Check it out and let me know what you think.

The Agile 800 Pounds Gorilla

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 02:46:02 GMT

I woke up this morning and I was Agile. We are all Agile now. Or we are gonna become Agile. Soon. No doubt about it. It is an order. And orders are not to be discussed, just executed. The Enterprise goes Agile! With the elegance of the huge battleship being pulled across a desert between oceans by slaves, camels and elephants, the Enterprise goes Agile.

Learning Ruby via IronRuby and C# Part 6

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:01:03 GMT

In part 6 we look at Hashes (or Associative Arrays) and how they are used in the Ruby language. We also look at how you can use them in place of explicit method parameters.

Microsoft and Open Source...A New Love Story

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:31:02 GMT

Brian Prince outlines the latest happenings between Microsoft and the open source community. Including sponsoring the Apache Software Foundation.

The Onion Architecture

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:16:08 GMT

The fundamental rule is that all code can depend on layers more central, but code cannot depend on layers further out from the core. This architecture is unashamedly biased toward object-oriented programming, and it puts objects before all others.

Arrange Act Assert and BDD specifications

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:46:11 GMT

With Rhino Mocks 3.5 just around the corner, I've started using it to create much more readable tests. One of the things that always bothered me with Expect.Call, constraints and the like was that it mixed in the Arrange with Assert. For those that haven't heard of AAA, it's a pattern for authoring unit tests: * Arrange - set up the unit under test * Act - exercise the unit under test, capturing any resulting state * Assert - verify the behavior through assertions As I moved towards BDD context/specification style tests, working with Rhino Mocks didn't fit the picture very well. But with the new AAA syntax of Rhino Mocks 3.5, I can very cleanly separate out the behavior I want to observe from the mechanics of setting up the test.

ALT.NET Podcast 8 - EF Vote of No Confidence (part 2 of Episode 7)

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:31:06 GMT

In this episode Jeremy Miller and Ward Bell (from IdeaBlade) discuss the Vote of No Confidence on Microsoft's Entity Framework and what it means for the Alt.NET and .NET communities

ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 links collection

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:16:03 GMT

A list of all the posts talking about the new features and changes coming with the interim ASP.NET MVC P4

Herding Code Podcast: Episode 9 with Rob Conery

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:31:13 GMT

The Herding Code crew (K. Scott Allen, Kevin Dente, Scott "LazyCoder" Koon, and Jon Galloway) catch up with Rob Conery on SubSonic 2.1, Where SubSonic fits in the Microsoft data access tools explosion, Why LINQ to SubSonic is so durn tricky, MVC Storefront - has it made Rob a TDD believer, and What else is Rob up to at Microsoft.

Hammett is joining the MEF team at Microsoft

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:01:03 GMT

Hamilton Verissimo, aka Hammett is joining MS as PM inside the MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework) team, but will keep on working on Castle.