I’m taking a few weeks off of work to focus on thesis-related things, so there (probably) won’t be any blog posts here until the first full week of January when I return to a normal schedule. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
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Stories from the trenches of software development.
Month: <span>December 2008</span>
Unit Testing in .NET Part 3 – Asserting That Your Code Rocks
In the previous entries in this series, you’ve learned about the basics of unit testing, and you’ve seen how to create a very basic unit test. In this post, you will learn how to fully use NUnit’s Assert class to create a full suite of unit tests. This post builds off the sample described in…
Great Intro to Scrum
Hamid Shojaee has created a nice video on SCRUM. I have yet to actually get SCRUM to work in practice due to lack of buy-in, but I agree 100% in the principles of the methodology.
Unit Testing in .NET Part 2 – Your First Unit Tests
In the last post, you learned the basics of unit testing in .NET: you should understand the intent behind unit testing, you should have a vague idea of what unit tests should look like, and you should have looked at some of the unit testing API options that are available to you. For the remainder…
Unit Testing in .NET Part 1 – Introduction to Testing
Today is the first ‘requested topic’ post. If you have a topic you would like to hear more about, drop me a line, and if it’s something that I’m either interested in or working with anyway, I’ll try to give the topic a proper post. Serious suggestions only (yes, I’m talking to you, Evil Rob). …
Setting Directory Permissions with Windows PowerShell
In my on-going attempts to simplify the deployment of our web application here at Day Job, I have created a PowerShell script that sets the permissions on all the directories used by the app. It’s amazing how much simpler something like this is in PowerShell compared to VBScript. Here’s some code that will give the…
Having a baby is like a software release…
A friend just made me realize that having a baby is exactly like releasing a software product. It starts by someone else picking an arbitrary release date, then you kind of drift along with unclear requirements for a while (is it a boy or a girl?). Periodically, the release date gets changed for no apparent…
Who thought this "New Xbox Experience" mess was a good idea?
If you own an Xbox 360, then you have no doubt experienced the horror that is the "New Xbox Experience" (NXE). From major things like incompatibilities with some TV sets and Red-Ring-Of-Death reports to minor things like a completely botched handling of old themes, it’s been a rocky road for NXE thus far. I have…
I declare victory for C# over C!
Alright, that’s not quite fair, but anyone that assumes that C# is going to be slow just because Java is making a big mistake. One of my classmates made this mistake, and it should have cost him $5, but I chickened out and wouldn’t take the bet. Anyway: We had a programming assignment to find…
Essential Development Team Tools
Unless you are a micro-ISV or are developing on your own for fun, I doubt you are working in isolation. You are probably working as part of a team of developers (and possibly testers, designers, etc) who are all working in parallel on the project. I’ve been on the same team since my employer first…
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