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Being Lazy with Rake

Fri, 29 May 2009 21:09:26 GMT

Stop working so hard. Let Rake do the menial stuff for you!

Toward a Better Use of Context/Specification

Thu, 28 May 2009 01:41:19 GMT

have you hand-rolled your own base class for your Context/Specification style specs? Curious whats different between a Context/Specification base class and a typical unit testing base class? read on...

A Little More Sugar for Testing Routes in asp.net MVC

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:46:04 GMT

Building on the Fluent Route Testing from MVC Contrib, this is another extension for testing ignored Routes.

Learning to use Fluent NHibernate: Getting started w/ your 1st Mapping

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 23:31:14 GMT

Learning to use Fluent NHibernate: Getting started w/ your first mappings

"Quality Doesn't Matter That Much" -- Jeff and Joel

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 06:16:02 GMT

I was riding my exercise bike, listening to Stack Overflow #38 when I heard Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky say "Quality just doesn't matter that much." I nearly fell off my bike.

Saving the World via. TDD?

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 01:46:13 GMT

A quick snippet of code showing the gist of the Context/Specification pattern... and ensuring we won't need John Connor's help after all.

Automatic/Convention-based mapping entities with Fluent NHibernate

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:31:12 GMT

James Gregory has a 4-part post on the "auto-mapping" features of Fluent NHibernate. Basically, Fluent NHibernate can automatically map most of your entities based on the conventions you specify and can apply other conventions such as table names, foreign-key constraint naming, etc. This is the first post of the 4, the others are linked as Trackbacks at the bottom. After reading these 4, you should have a better idea of how to get started using the conventional mapping features of Fluent NHibernate.

When Should I Write Tests?

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:46:03 GMT

The definitive answer to a question that comes up all the time...

TortoiseGit 0.1.0.0 Preview

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 06:16:02 GMT

TortoiseSVN is being ported to TortoiseGit

[PSA] Using the Code Behind in MVC causes blindness

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 23:31:02 GMT

Just a PSA on why NOT to use the Code Behinds in Asp.Net MVC framework

Design and Testability

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:46:02 GMT

Another good one

Fluent NHibernate's AutoPersistenceModel: I Love it!

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:16:04 GMT

I checked out the latest version of Fluent NHibernate today and noticed the AutoPersistenceModel. I looked at the unit-tests to see what it's supposed to do and I loved what I saw.

KazenConf Resources are Coming Online

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:01:48 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

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:46:13 GMT

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

Separate Assemblies != Loose Coupling

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 06:16:07 GMT

read and learn

Request for Help: Need better guidance for beginners

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:01:02 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 09:26:20 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 16:01:02 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"!

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 04:26:34 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

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:16:17 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 23:52:00 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 10:49:18 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

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 06:16:02 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

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 01:46:03 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 17:31:03 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.