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2,851 posts, 2003–2023. Each bar is one year; pick a year to see its posts.
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The Journey Begins (and why it starts with Ruby)
I am so freaking glad I made this move . I’ve gotten more than a dozen emails from companies in Israel doing non-MS stuff, who may be interested in me interning for them. Technologies range from Java Based Scalability…
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Measuring Simplicity in TDD
Uncle Bob talks about priorities when changing code functionality according to a failing test (‘tranformations’): http://cleancoder.posterous.com/the-transformation-priority-premise he asks: Is there really a priority?…
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Test Driven Source Control–Safe Points
Having worked quite a bit now with Git and Mercurial, and tests, I got an interesting idea. An addin that runs inside your favorite IDE, and listens to test related events. Every time the test suite is finished running,…
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20% discount, and new location - Two Day TDD Class UK
Good news : My march class of TDD in .NET has a location : SkillsMatter in the UK. There are only five tickets left, and the first one to use the code “ GoMouseless ” at checkout, gets a 20% discount on the purchase. I…
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Review: PostSharp 2.0
While working at Typemock, we got a few review licenses of PostSharp . I had known the product from it’s version 1.0 days, and was determined on using it to apply logging and tracing into our applications (such as Test…
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What are you going to do about it?
A couple of Days ago I finished the first “Lead Better” course for software team leaders in Oslo. It was the first time I had done this course out of Israel. It was a great feeling to get the following email today from…
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Video: how to do test reviews
Last year I did a talk at Oredev, showing examples of how I go over various pieces of open source projects, and what I look for when I review other people’s unit tests. The full video is here .
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Multiple mocks, asserts, and hidden results
In his post “ one mock per test considered harmful ” , Phillip suggests that having multiple mocks used could make a more readable specification. he also disagrees with the way I provide some of the advice in my book.…
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Want a free seat for my TDD class in march? Propose a challenge.
In a few weeks I will be giving a full two day TDD class in .NET, in London, at the SkillsMatter facilities . To celebrate the first course ever that I am doing “alone” (without any host organizing things for me), I’m…
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Free TDD Class Seat in March - Here's How
After much debating , here’s how you can win a free seat for my two day TDD in .NET class in London Next month (you get full free entry - but does not include flight\hotel! ) Write a blog post that details (in text,…
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Are you an agile consultant in Israel? Make yourself known!
Israel needs more Agile consultants. I’m serious. I keep getting asked by small and large companies if I know good agile consultants. And the problem is that I know very little agile related consultants that don’t…
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Winner: Free seat in my TDD Class
Tim Barber gets a free seat for my two day TDD class in London for his post about his dedication to learning this subject . Tim, I’ll see you there! Tim gets in free to learn the following subjects and more: Creating…
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New User Group: Ruby Underground - Ruby and Ruby On Rails
Ever wondered what all the fuss is about when people talk about Ruby and Rails? Now’s your chance to get in on the inside loop and join a rapidly growing community of practice here in Israel on this very subject. We’ve…
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New User Group: Ruby Underground - Ruby and Ruby On Rails
Ever wondered what all the fuss is about when people talk about Ruby and Rails? Now’s your chance to get in on the inside loop and join a rapidly growing community of practice here in Israel on this very subject. We’ve…
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Seven Features SquareSpace should have added *before* the location widget
after almost a year of waiting for *some* kind of feature to be added to squarespace (i’m quite a happy customer, but it feels like someone forgot to add features after the company got bought!), squarespace has added…
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My Google Rejection Letter
Before joining Astrails a couple of weeks ago, I tried to apply to Google. And….I’m not good enough to work as a test engineer at google. No, they did not ask about my book . “Hi Roy Osherove, It was a pleasure speaking…
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Lead Better - Course next week in Oslo
I’ll be doing my “ Lead Better ” course in Oslo next week . There are 3 places left if you want to join us. A lot of what this course is about can be seen at my Five Whys blog . If you’ve ever tried to convince your…
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New TDD Kata - Interactions
Here's a new TDD kata that's a bit more advanced than String Calculator , and requires the use of mocks and stubs to complete. I've been using it in the past 10 or so classes I've had with great impressions of how…
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Agile Practitioners Israel Group Announced
Elad Sofer and Lior Fridman have created Agile Practitioners in Israel group. More details here , and you can sign up for the upcoming event here . I'm happy to see that people are picking up what ever shreds of the…
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Video: The 3 amigos at NDC2011
Embedded Flash media from the original post is no longer playable. recorded at NDC 2011 picturing Ruby on Rails development vs. ASP.NET MVC development
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The first Ruby on Rails course in Israel is open for registration
if you've ever wanted to learn ruby on rails in Israel, but didn't know how to start on your own, I think you'd find this very interesting! (no, I am not teaching it. someone with much more experience than me is) Web…
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Ruby User Group: upcoming meeting on Ruby next week
Hi all. Next week the Ruby Underground meeting is actually taking place in Microsoft in Herzliya. The topics of the meeting will be about Sinatra, and a glimpse of one developer's development environment and what tools…
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Video: Team Leadership in the Age of Agile
during QCon 2011 in London, I gave a talk about the new qualities that team leaders need to make agile succeed. It's a very small fraction of what I cover and coach during my upcoming course. See the full video here…
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How not to do TDD
Update : It seems that much further down in the book, they do cover a more minimalist and simplistic approach to make the tests pass . I was too quick to write, and did not look further in the book. I would recommend…
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TDD course in Oslo - August 2011
I will be starting a 3 day TDD in .NET course in Oslo next week (wed.). The course covers everything from zero - so I assume you have no unit testing experience whatsoever. Then it gets you al the way to *highly…
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Elastic Team Leadership Class in Oslo - August 2011
I'm holding a two day Elastic Team Leadership class in Oslo next week - (right before my 3 day TDD course) This class is about everything that Agile methodologies do not teach you Have you ever come across these…
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TDD in .NET course - Day 2 Learnings
Just finished day two od TDD in .NET course here in oslo. here are the list of things we covered today: Test that an even gets fired Understand the boundaries of a unit of work (more than a single method) mocks vs.…
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TDD in .NET Day 3 Learnings
3rd day of TDD in .net in Oslo is over, and here are some of the subjects covered: Moq FakeitEasy Extract & Override refactoring Typemock Doing Test Reviews on other people's tests Approaching Legacy Code
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Why MSTest is the IE6 of unit test frameworks
Someone asked me by email a couple of weeks ago, whether I still think NUnit is better than MSTest. I had two weeks to think about this before having enough time to write this. keep in mind, I posted pretty much the…
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Upcoming 3 and 5 day TDD classes
September in Stockholm (3 days) I'll be giving a 3 day version of my TDD masterclass in .NET, in Stockholm. You can register and find more details here. October in Copenhagen (5 days) This is the only 5 day TDD class I…
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A week in Stockholm - Open for consulting or training
I'll be spending the week of September 12-16 in Stockholm, Sweden. While i'm there I will be doing consulting gigs and possibly training. If you're interested in me coming to your company for a day or two and teach Test…
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One day dive into Unit Testing and TDD in .NET - Lund, Sweden
FYI - this course has been CANCELED This September, I will be doing a one day TDD and unit testing class in Lund. The class is it for both people who have never written a unit test before and people who have. The first…
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One Day Software Team Leader Skills Class - Lund, Sweden
FYI - this course has been CANCELED I will be doing a one day class for new and experienced software team leaders about important skills you need to "make" it as a team leader. In the class you will learn how to…
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Want me to train or consult in your company during 2012?
I'm planning 2012 , as well as December of this year, so I'm looking for interesting places to host either my 3 or 5 day TDD master class in .NET, or a two day Software Team Leader Essential Skills (Elastic Leadership)…
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Free event and 5 day TDD masterclass in Copenhagen this month
Hi all. Two things to announce: TDD Master Class: If you’re in or near Copenhagen this month, and are interested in joining my 5 day TDD master class in .NET, you can learn more about it here . This is the only time…
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What You Don't Know You Don't Know
I recently did a talk to a your crowd of israeli developers (it was in hebrew) about a stopic I’ve never spoken about before in a talk - The reasons for my leaving the .NET world for a year. You can see the video of…
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"This is not a question. Just a comment for you, Roy."
—————- My Name:: ***** My Email is:: ******* My Company: I’m interested in: Other I am located in : Sweden Message: Thanks for having videos publicly available. I am going to setup hands-on courses in using…
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Effective Miscommunication
My previous post was precieved by some people as an arrogant, self congratulatory public postering of someone who wrote me some praise. That was not the intended meaning of that post. It was about effective ways of…
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TDD Master class - Videos Available For Purchase at TekPub
UPDATE: I have moved my tdd master class videos over to udemy.com . I’ve added many more and the class is now almost fully complete. In the past several months I’ve been taking background recordings of my classes with…
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My Suggested Talks for NDC 2012
Here’s the list I submitted to the powers that be for NDC 2012 . Most of these are new. soe are ‘refurbished’ with information I learned in the past year. I wonder which ones will go through.. 10 things every software…
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How Microsoft Israel Scares .NET Consultants Into Submission
If you are a consultant related to any Microsoft related technology in Israel, you might know the feeling - There's something you really want to tell your customers about a product that might be better than a current…
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Norway - Stavanger Elastic Leadership Class
This is very short notice, (which is why there is a surprise) - but During December 15-16, I’ll be doing my Elastic Leadership Course “Lead Better” in Stavanger, Norway. This course is for new and experienced software…
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Help me pick a name for my new site - a search engine for keyboard shortcuts
I’m working on a new site that will be a search engine for keyboard shortuts, where you’d put in an app name and get all the shortcuts for it. But I’m not sure which name is best. help me decide, dear reader!
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[Cool Tool] Checking Out VsVim
I've been using VsVim in my latest TDD course. It's a simulator of Vim keybindings for visual studio. I've been using vim since january 2011, so almost a year now, and i've come to really like the power you get when…