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Notes from a TDD masterclass
another TDD masterclass is done , and this time it was Munich! Lovely people, and smart programmers :) made a few changes this time – had an excersice about doing automated builds and CI, removed rhino mocks and added a…
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new Test Lint Beta – with command line runner
There is a new version of Test Lint – a test review tool for visual studio. It will check your unit tests for common problems and teach you on making your tests more readable, maintainable and trustworthy. The addin is…
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This Week In Test - Episode 1 – Rietveld!
We’re happy to bring you the first episode of the new and revamped “This week in testing” with Roy osherove and Ariel Raunstien. The episode is 32 minutes long. You can watch it in full at our new site .
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Converting MOD files to quicktime or mpeg for adobe premiere pro
I’ve been Editing lots of videos lately. My company got a video camera: Canon Legria FS200. It saves the movies in a digital format – as MOD files. Unfortunately, Adobe Premiere doesn’t work with these files. I needed…
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Video: Hardcore production debugging in .NET – Ingo Rammer
I got Ingo Rammer’s permission to post this video of one of his Teched EMEA 2008 talks – it’s about hardcore production debugging, and it’s a wonderful talk. I highly recommend you watch it. Also you should consider…
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Want to work at Typemock? We’re Hiring
We are looking for a .NET\C++ developer to join the growing Typemock ranks. You need to: Live in Israel know .NET very well (at least 3 years .NET experience – VB.NET or C#, and willing to learn the other one) Have some…
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Video: Continuous Integration with and without team system (Teched 2008)
this one was a loong time ago – but still has value. it’s about continous Integration, with and without team system. BTW – you can find all of my videos over here . Embedded Flash media from the original post is no…
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Running TeamCity from Amazon EC2 - Cloud based scalable build and continuous Integration
I’ve been having fun playing with the amazon EC2 cloud service. I set up a server running TeamCity , and an image of a server that just runs a TeamCity agent. I also setup TeamCity to automatically instantiate agents on…
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Warning - Don’t touch MindTouch Deki Wiki
I made the big mistake of hosting my book’s website wiki on MindTouch’s Deki Wiki ( http://*.wik.is ) Why was it a mistake? I started getting lots of SPAM in the wiki. That in itself isn’t really a MindTouch problem,…
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JustMock and Moles – A short overview for TDD alpha geeks
People have been lurking near my house, asking me to write something about Moles and JustMock, so I’ll try to be as objective as possible, taking in the fact that I work at Typemock. If I were NOT working at Typemock…
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TechEd Israel 2010 may only accept speakers from sponsors
UPDATE: Microsoft reps and other sources have notified me that whatever plans they had for only sponsored speakers, are canceled. they will be accepting non sponsored speakers as well. A month or so ago, Microsoft…
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Two Cool Typemock Contests
This week we announced two cool contests: Extend Test Lint – create your own rules for unit test reviews Test Lint is one of our new products, and it’s free . It checks your unit tests as you type them, looking for…
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Emperors don’t come cheap
“Sorry” I replied in a polite email. “Maybe next year, when budgets allow for this”. It was addressed to the organizer of TechEd US, which was to be in New Orleans this year. Man, I would have loved to be in new Orleans…
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First Typemock Academy - 4 days from now
This April 27th marks a special occasion for Typemock – the first Typemock Partner Conference is about to take place in Oslo, Norway. Some special treats are expected (including a very cool after party), and Uncle Bob…
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Open Space, Volcano Edition – London, Tuesday April 20th
If you’re stuck (or live) in London this week, a bunch of us geeks from the ACCU conference are trying to organize an open space one day conference. We are still looking for a space so ping me if you can help host 100…
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I’m in London this week – looking for training or consulting gigs (tdd and team leadership)
I’ve decided to stay in London for the week, instead of desperately trying to get home. I hope things will get better by the week’s end. That also means that I’m now looking for interesting consulting or training gigs…
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Funny Volcanic Ash Tweets
Now that I’m officially stuck in the UK (for ACCU ) until the cloud of ash thinks it’s OK, I’ve gathered some funny tweets from #ashtag: @the_pc_doc: I, for one, welcome our new volcanic overloads. #ashtag @CloudierK:…
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Finding the location of vsixInstaller.exe programmatically
It should always be here: %vs100comntools%\..\..\IDE\ or through the registry: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\ under key “ InstallDir ” Thanks Pablo !
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Things to install on a new machine – revisited
as I prepare to get a new dev machine at work, I write the things I am going to install on it, before writing the first line of code on that machine: Control Freak Tools: Everything Search Engine – a free and amazingly…
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Introducing QuickUnit
A friend of mine, Ariel, just finished up his latest project, in the unit testing world – called QuickUnit . From the site: QuickUnit significantly reduces the time needed to design and generate high-quality unit tests.…
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Code excavations, wishful invocations, perimeters and domain specific unit test frameworks
One of the talks I did at QCON London was about a subject that I’ve come across fairly recently , when I was building SilverUnit – a “pure” unit test framework for silverlight objects that depend on the silverlight…
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Introducing Typemock Test Lint
We just released a new, free product - Typemock Test Lint, click here for all the gory details . It’s a just-in-time unit testing coach that looks at your code as you type and looks for common unit testing errors. Or,…
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NUnit vs. MsTest: NUnit wins for Unit Testing.
People are still wondering what are the differences between the two most popular unit testing frameworks in the .NET world: the open source NUnit and the commercial MsTest). Here’s a short list of what i remember…
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Solution: Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 extension does not load in vs 2010 RC
like (I think) many others, the extension I am writing for visual studio 2010 beta did not even load on the new visual studio 2010 RC. After searching and asking around, it looks like the main breaking change for me was…
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Vienna done!
My TDD course week in Vienna just finished, and Vienna was a blast! I got to hang out with (admittedly very quiet) geeks: how geeky? Lars (who came all the way from Denmark!) actually brought over his avatar 3d glasses…
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Inhibiting design tooling and sex education
during a reply to a thread about design for testability , Pat Maddox wrote something interesting about how the inherent testability in Ruby still does not make up for the lack of design skills: “ Too often I'm finding…
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Working on a new product
I’ve been heads down in the past few weeks working on a new product. a public alpha\beta will be out end of this month. It is in the field of unit testing. Can you guess what it is? hints : There is parsing involved…
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Wanted: WPF Designer
I’m looking for a skilled freelance WPF designer for short gigs, that can help design beautiful and usable wpf control layouts and UI behaviors, and images to be used in and around those controls. (DO NOT contact me if…
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TDD master class – Vienna Feb 15-19
I will be in Vienna again in two weeks , from Feb 15-19 ,doing my TDD master class . There are two seats left – and I’d love to see you there! here’s what other people who attended had to say about this class . You can…
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Why we all need celebrity programmers
before scott bellware disappeared off the twitter radar, he kept talking about the idea of “celebrity” being the big problem with communities such as ALT.NET, and lately with the Lean and Craftsmanship movements. I…