SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2
On Sept 29th, Microsoft made SQL Server 2008 SP2 available for download.Here are the KB article with a description of the fixes and the links to download SP2.KB 2285068 : List of the bugs that are...
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Testing, huh! What is it good for?
IMPORTANT: Before reading this post open this link and let it play. This is my response to the 2nd Developer Blog Banter. The question asked isHow do you organise your tests. Do you separate your unit...
View ArticleCode from my Ruby Presentation
These days it seems that everyone has a crush on Ruby. I presented two sessions at this year’s Adelaide Code Camp: BDD with StoryQ and I Am IronRuby. After the standard IronRuby demonstration (creating...
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Code Camp Oz 2010
Each year for the last seven Wagga Wagga hosts the annual Code Camp Oz. It is the largest community .NET conference in Australia. For reasons I don’t understand the organisers choose to hold ccoz in...
View ArticleSetting the SlideShowExtender's Index
The AJAX SlideShowExtender is pretty useful. It does what it says and works without much fuss. There was one trick I needed it to perform that I could not find natively within the control. That was to...
View ArticleCraftsmanship is ALL that Matters
Today, I'm going to talk about a touchy subject: the notion of working in a company that doesn't use the prescribed "best practices" in its software development endeavours. Over the years I have,...
View ArticleString Practice
Now this might be sacrilege to some, and a blessing to others.Through using Objective C, I realise that I really miss the ability to do C# quick and easy string manipulation, like -IndexOf Trim...
View ArticleRequirements Capture Markup Language - Part 1: BDD WorkItem Editor?
It seems odd that in 2011 there is no such thing as a requirements capture language. Martin Fowler describes this as the yawning crevice of doom in software -...
View ArticleSolutioners, Solutioners, Solutioners, Solutioners…
I’m crazy excited about the technology industry right now. We’re seeing evolution happen in real time, and at all levels.From the major platforms, we’re seeing Google’s overall story taking shape,...
View ArticleSetting up keyboard shortcuts to build solutions in MSBuild
One of the greatest benefits of building your solution flies in MSBuild (vs in Visual Studio directly) is that it doesn't lock up the Visual Studio UI, which can be a huge pain if you have a large...
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Behaviour Driven BizTalk Development
Ive recently done some user group sessions around BizTalk and Behaviour Driven Development and Acceptance Testing.Ive uploaded the videos and samples for these sessions to the following codeplex...
View ArticleBDD BizTalk videos on CloudCast
The biztalk videos for BDD and acceptance testing are now on cloudcasthttp://www.cloudcasts.net/Default.aspx?category=BizTalk
View ArticleIntentional Programming -- My Evolution
Over my years of writing code and building systems, several “truths” have emerged. I won’t talk about all of those truths here, but only one in particular: I call it Documenting Your Purpose. The...
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Windows Phone 7 Application development
A few days back I had the privilege to demonstrate the capabilities of WP7 at an event. I jointly presented the session with Bijoy Singhal, distinguished speaker with a knack of simplifying even the...
View ArticleEnd-to-end WCF code coverage with PowerShell
I'm a big fan of automated testing which actually proves something. Unit tests may prove all the components in a solution work independently, but that doesn't mean you have a working solution....
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Some myths of 'Textbook-TDD', and why they are wrong
During the last months, I was (for some reasons that are not related to programming) working for a dev shop where software development was done the 'traditional' way: You just write your application's...
View ArticleDevConnections 2011
Just leaving DevConnections and collecting my thoughts. It has been a long week but very great to finally meet the DevExpress team. Thanks everyone for everything. It was a great week to network and...
View ArticleBDD and BizUnit 2 – Not as cool as combining BizUnit 4 & SpecFlow but still...
I've been back working with BizTalk 2006 R2 for a customer recently and I've become such a fan of the BDD style acceptance tests I've done in the past with BizTalk 2010 that its quite frustrating...
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Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and DevExpress XAF
So in my previous posts I showed you how I used EDMX to quickly build my business objects within XPO and XAF. But how do you test whether your business objects are actually doing what you want and...
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