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Make Zune resume your mp3 audio book files when replaying
This simple tip really helped me: Simply tag the mp3 file's "Genre" tag as "podcast" which will enable resume on them through the zune player.
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Fit/Fitnesse Fixture Gallery -Real world help for FIT and Fitnesse users
This great news was just published at the alt.net mailing list. putting it here for future reference. "Fixture Gallery 2.0 (release 2008-06-09) is now available for download from SourceForge. Fixture Gallery is a…
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Itamar at 1.5
My son, Itamar, is almost a year and a half old. I'm gonna be gone from home for a week, so here are a couple of pictures of him taken yesterday, so you'll all see the cool little dude I'm missing out on:
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Unit testing vs. Integration Testing : The Restaurant Analogy
Here's an analogy I came up with to explain the difference between unit tests and integration tests. Imagine going to a restaurant with a bunch of your friends. there are some couples there as well as singles. At the…
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Making Tab mix plus and other firefox addons work with Firefox 3 beta
I installed Firefox 3 beta and the addon I missed the most was Tab Mix Plus (along with IETab , but that works on the beta). Here's how I was able to have Tab Mix Plus working on Firefox 3: 1) Try downloading the latest…
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Most informative property description award goes to..
You can tell someone really tried to do the right thing, only to fail by the best intentions: this is from WixEdit .
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DimeCast.net : 10 minute video tutorials on .NET related matters
Awesome idea . this will only live if the community contributes, and it should. First videos up are all about unit NUnit, for total beginners. Highly recommended.
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Time Saver : Pre-made DVD Images with ALL the windows security updates
Oh, this is going to save a whole lot of time when setting up new windows boxes or Virtual machines: A dvd image with all the security updates - so that you won't have to download them the hard way - through windows…
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More on Duplicity in the Community
In continuation to my last post about duplicity in the ALT.NET community and around, Eli has a nice post up that basically says "In other languages where objects can be swapped without Dependency Injection, there is…
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Two Faced Commits - how the ALT.NET Community is becoming more and more dogmatic
disclaimer: I work at Typemock. There is a big trend I am starting to notice in the "Advanced" unit testing community. That trend feels more and more like hypocrisy. Take Daniel's post about mocking statics without…
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Tough Questions about unit testing - Your comments required
As part of My Book I have a chapter on the challenges of integrating unit testing practices into an organization. One of the sections deals with "Tough questions and answers". In short, what are the tough questions you…
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"Swapping" instead of "Injecting" calls between classes
Eli Lopian, Typemock CEO and awesome Coder, just created a nice little API wrapper around Typemock Isolator that would allow a very simple and readable "Swapping" effect between classes. It would allow you to write code…
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Typemock Isolator 4.2.4 is out
Typemock Isolator 4.2.4 is out with some important fixes . More information here .
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Sore Throat == Apology
If you're in devteach toronto and are waiting to hear my session on intro to TDD, I may owe you an apology. it is 2AM here in Toronto and I just woke up with what has been a royal pain in my neck (literally) for 3 days…
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Agile Rejection Letter
"Dear Roy, Thank you for your submission to the Developer Jam stage, entitled "Advanced Unit Testing Patterns, Tips and Tricks with examples in .NET". We received a number of great submissions for the stage--more than…
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NullObject.For<T> - As simple as it gets, but no simpler
This NullObject Factory from Paul is very nice, simple and clean in its design. I really like it and I can see many uses for it, in parallel with working with your standard mocking framework or IoC Container…
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Introducing LINQ To Regex
When I first saw Josh Flanagan's Readable Fluent Regex Api , I loved it at first sight. Now I'm working on a demo for the upcoming DevTeach in Toronto , where I'll present how to build custom LINQ providers to various…
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Addy Santo Blogs again
Here's a blog from someone I deeply respect . he just reopened it. let's hope this time Addy will share more of his thoughts with the world. I got to work with Addy when he was still living in Israel. Great guy, lots of…
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Please don't go (work for MS or Google)
Um, kids, Joel needs employees. So don't go to MS or Google , please? Seriously, Joel? When was the last *important* thing you've built that didn't rely on some knowledge that came out of one of those two huge…
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Unit Testing Denial Pattern #1: Pretending the test is no longer valid
Today was both a good day for e and a bad day for me. Good day because I managed to get a full suite of tests that were somehow failing to work again after a refactoring that got out of hand. Bad - because out of all…
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Don't miss out on Spec#
Hey , you decision makers up there at Microsoft. Maybe you didn't realize this, or maybe you're waiting for the community to let you know. Spec# is one awesome project that needs to become a real product. It allows one…
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I'm a wuss
No honey. I'm not going on this trip with you. Embedded Flash media from the original post is no longer playable.
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Pros and Cons and of using an Auto Mocking container in your tests
In regards to my post about injecting mocks and stubs using a container in your tests, Dave asks in the comments: Why would you want to do this in the first place? Here are the things I can think about right now (pros…
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Testing XML serialization attributes
Not sure how I feel about this particular brand of testing syntax . still, it's good that someone thought this problem through - testing xml serialization attributes. [via the morning brew ]
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Parallel Builds with MSBuild
I just learned something new: You can do parallel builds with MsBuild if you have a multi core CPU. awesome.
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Injecting Typemock Stubs and Mocks using the StructureMap container in a unit test
Someone asked for examples of how you'd inject stubs and mocks when you'd like your object under test to use a container such as StructureMap . here are a couple of simple tests to show this using Typemock Isolator .…
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Creating a AutoMockingContainer with Microsoft Unity - Pretty darn simple.
updated : made container more readable Just created a little Auto Mocking Container built on Microsoft Unity. It was very very simple. here's a test that uses it. We tell the container to Returna stub for T because we…
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Itamar at 1.3 (movie)
It's time to mark my son, Itamar's, one year and 3 months birthday. Here's a little movie to show what my little angel looks like these days:
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TechEd Israel Reflection Slides and Demos + organizational feedback
Teched Israel that took place in Eilat was just done a couple of days ago. Here are my slides and demos from my talk: Slides and Demos - .NET In the mirror a deep reflection session It also includes the lyrics to the…