There are many posts on the web about how easy it is to get started with Microsoft’s Entity Framework and SQL Server Compact Edition (SQL CE). This combination seems to be all the rage thanks to EF’s new “Code First” approach introduced in version 4.1. While I am impressed with the latest version of Entity…
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Stories from the trenches of software development.
Month: <span>July 2011</span>
Test-Driven Development Is Not Slower
Hello, my name is Matt Honeycutt, and I am addicted to Test Driven Development. I’ve been “using” for about 5 years now. It started out with a little innocent unit testing and Test Later Development, but I quickly found that the increased productivity caused by TDD to be too alluring, and I succumbed. Now I’m…
Cleaning up POSTs in ASP.NET MVC, the Fail Tracker Way
Those who have worked with ASP.NET MVC for more than a day have no doubt found themselves repeating common patterns when handling POSTs. Jimmy Bogard recently blogged one way to simplify your actions. I handled the same problem in Fail Tracker by implementing a very simple convention (one-model-in, one-model-out) and pushing some responsibility into the…
Building Nice Display Names From Pascal-Case View Model Names in ASP.NET MVC 3
One of my goals with Fail Tracker is to push the “Convention over Configuration” idea as far as you possibly can within the confines of ASP.NET MVC. I’m obviously biased, but so far I think I’ve been quite successful, and Fail Tracker is probably the most enjoyable codebase I’ve ever worked with. One convention I…
Continuous Deployment Using TeamCity 6, MSDeploy, and psake
Some might call continuous deployment the holy grail of agile practices. The idea that any code change will be live in production within minutes of being committed is both terrifying and powerful. In this post I will give you some background on what continuous deployment is and why you should care, and I’ll show you…
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