--- title: "What's up?" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/11/1/whats-up.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/11/1/whats-up.html" published: "2004-11-01T16:07:00" updated: "2004-11-01T16:07:00" tags: [".Net Quotations"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "Udi Dahan shows a simple and effective way to make your exception data more readable in the event log. Yeah. It's really simple. Aviv raff is an up and coming Israeli .Net blogger. He's had 6 posts already (which is why…" usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)." license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- # What's up? By Roy Osherove November 1, 2004 In [.Net Quotations](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-quotations) **Historical article** · Originally published November 1, 2004; technical details may be outdated. - [Udi Dahan shows](http://udidahan.weblogs.us/archives/021210.html) a simple and effective way to make your exception data more readable in the event log. Yeah. It's really simple. - [Aviv raff](http://aviv.raffon.net/) is an up and coming Israeli .Net blogger. He's had 6 posts already (which is why I am linking to him) on various subjects, which is more than I can say about many other (unnamed) Israeli .Net bloggers. Go Aviv! - [A new version of NUnit is out](http://www.nunit.org/) \- with extensibility features, Yey! Now you can finally write your own attributes and test suites (for example - a transactional test case, or a multi-threaded test suite...) Anything else worth mentioning? tell me. **P.S - E&C** C# is going to have "Edit And Continue" ability. Say what you will, but I can only see goodness in this. Do all those anti-E&C think that now, that E&C has come to C# than suddenly all those developers will stop doing all the up-front design, unit tests and what not? No. It's **just another aid**. It's like the spare wheel in your car - It's not recommended to use it as a standard while driving, but it's damn good to have it there for those little pieces of time you need to use it. _("gah! With true TDD you should never have to use it!" someone might say, to which I'll reply - "get over yourself, this is the real world". In fact, I dare any anti-E&C buff to have it enabled but **not** to use it from now on for 2 months. can you do that?)_  ## More in .Net Quotations [All posts in .Net Quotations](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-quotations) - Nov 29, 2004 ### [TestDriven.Net version 1.0 is out (with a new site design as well)](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/11/29/testdrivennet-version-10-is-out-with-a-new-site-design-as-we.html) - Nov 7, 2004 ### [Mitigating malicious plug-ins in your application](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/11/7/mitigating-malicious-plug-ins-in-your-application.html) - Oct 13, 2004 ### [TopXML releases the System.XML reference online](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/10/13/topxml-releases-the-systemxml-reference-online.html) - Oct 12, 2004 ### [Introducing "Project Distributor" - your .Net file and idea sharing ground](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/10/12/introducing-quotproject-distributorquot-your-net-file-and-id.html) --- ## About the author **Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery. ### Sites - [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership. - [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts. - [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin. - [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model. - [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps. - [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes). ### Social - X: https://x.com/royosherove - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/ ### Contact - Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7 ### License Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/