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Responses to agile concerns
Our very own Steve Eichert recently posted on the skeptics' view of agile . It has taken a while, but I have compiled responses to each of the original concerns, in order. [ Darrell Norton ] Darrell approaches most of…
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Unit Test Your .NET Data Access Layer: Where are the Mocks?
I was real excited to see an article up on MSDN that discusses Test Driven development (via Ashutosh Nilkanth ). Not only that, it discusses the issue of testing database related code inside your unit tests - a messy…
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PDC hype is really really really annoying!
“I am very excited about the upcoming PDC, but I can't reveal to you a lot that I already know until PDC actually starts. “ [ .NET Undocumented ] Well, G-wiz, Thanks for sharing that! You know, I'm getting sick and…
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Creating Doc-Centric Apps in WinForms, part 1 of 3
Chris Chris Sells wrote a 3 -part series titled “ Creating Doc-Centric Apps in WinForms “: This 3-part series really belonged as a chapter in my WinForms book, but after doubling the estimated size of the book (not to…
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Appsettings can Reference an External Config File
I did not know this! “I recently discovered that the app/web.config file can reference an external config file to get some or all of its appsettings. .. “ [ Paul Wilson ] (follow the link to learn how) Excellent tip!
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Engineering Notebook: An Extreme Programming Episode
In order to demonstrate XP (eXtreme Programming) practices, Bob Koss (RSK) and Bob Martin (RCM) will pair program a simple application while you watch like a fly on the wall. We will use test first design and a lot of…
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[New article]: Creating a generic Site-To-RSS tool (site scraping)
It's been a long and very interesting week for me. I know it's weird hearing that the week I start looking for a new job, but it's true. I've been getting lots of interesting offers from people, especially from the…
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Creating a generic Site-To-RSS tool
Download the source files . Index: Creating a generic Site-To-RSS tool 1 What you’ll need . 1 Summary . 1 Introduction . 2 Planning a site scrape . 2 Regex – a powerful scraping tool 2 Creating our scraping regular…
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nsh - A tool to run .NET source files like script files.
nsh - A tool to run .NET source files like script files. [ Larkware ] From the site: .NET currently lacks a freely-available scripting language (like WSH VBScript / JScript). nsh allows you to compile and run a .NET…
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Excellent ASP.NET Identity Matrix reference
I remember reading about this somewhere, and came across this great reference! Hurray for the MS patterns and practices team! Summary: This document provides tables that illustrate, for a range of IIS authentication…
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Google Code Jam 2003
Google, which previously sponsored the 2002 Google Programming Contest , 2003 Google US Puzzle Championship , CodeCon 2003 is now sponsoring something new: Google Code Jam 2003 Do you have exceptional programming…
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Pay for my PDC?
“ D ave Bettin , one of the best developers I've ever worked with really wants to go to the PDC - he's asking for some help ...” “...If you can, please donate a few bucks to his PDC fund [via paypal]...” [ Philip Rieck…
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Testing nirvana
Josh Ledgard Has been writing some very interesting posts. He's a testing team at MS and as such, writes posts about testing with an understating and knowledge that only someone who did testing on products such as…
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Expresso up to version 1.2 already
Looks like Expresso , my tool of choice for working with regular expressions, is already on version 1.2 and I missed it! Hurry up and download it . From what I can see they added : Saving your own library of regular…
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AmazReplacer - Convert Amazon's URL into your referrer URL automatically
I've created a small utility app that does that automatically takes whatever URL is in the clipboard , reformats it to be an Amazon referral URL and puts the result in the clipboard. Very easy and fast. You can download…
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Nothing like the smell of new books!
Just ordered 3 books from Amazon : How Would You Move Mount Fuji? Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle - How the World's Smartest Company Selects the Most Creative Thinkers COM+ and the Battle for the Middle Tier Test Driven…
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[Article] Fun with Unit Tests – Testing abstract classes
Just posted my latest article: Fun with Unit Tests – Testing abstract classes Summary In this article I’ll be looking into a trickier part of unit testing– testing the functionality of classes who cannot be instantiated…
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Fun with Unit Tests – Testing abstract classes
Download the source for this article: Direct link Summary In this article I’ll be looking into a trickier part of unit testing– testing the functionality of classes who cannot be instantiated on their own, abstract…
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Some stuff
Joel spolsky tells us how he designed his dream office . I'm not crazy about the colors, but he details some very important points to look out for when designing office space, especially if you want people to be able to…
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The perfect birthday gift
Can I have this for my birthday? it's a P4 3,8 Ghz and it's only 7,800$. (link via Chris )
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Getting the list of installed programs on the local machine
Here's a snippet from the win-tech-off-topic list: Getting the list of installed programs on the local machine: static void GetInstalled() { string uninstallKey = @"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall";…
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PDC hype and real actions
With all the PDC hype going about, instead of just cheerleading, why havn't we seen some contest or giveaway of free tickets to the PDC? wouldn't that be cool, Scoble ?
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New Server Controls Provided by the ASP.NET Web Matrix
Quickly and easily build your ASP.NET Web applications with ASP.NET Web Matrix. Learn about this free development tool and new server controls that you can use in Web Matrix or Visual Studio .NET. [ MSDN just published ]
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I'm available
Perhaps it was in honor of my new MCP , or just because it is two days before the Hebrew new year's, I find myself looking for a job again . The tale is short and not that complicated. suffice to say that my current…
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For a good time, call 1-800-FAULT-INJECTION-TESTING
Bruce E. Williams , of the MS testing team blogs about what fault injection really is, and how to utilizie it for good evil . Gotta love that.
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Installation woes and SqlJunkies
Nothing beats waiting 2 hours for you vs.Net installation to complete just to discover there was an “Insert disc 1” prompt hidden behind all the other windows that you didn't notice! BTW, I just subscribed to SqlJunkies…
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Google search by location
Google Labs has released Search by Location . Enter some search terms and an address, city, or zip code and Google will return a bunch of results which contain nearby addresses and plot them on a map. You may recall…
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Free chapter from "Essential .Net" by Don Box
Found this out through the DOTNET-CLR mailing list: You can read a free chapter from Don Box 's latest book Essential .Net, Volume 1 , over at Amazon . Looks very promising. it's chapter 3 and it's called “ Type Basics…
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Cool cases
Huh. And you though your machine looked somewhat cool? Take a look at some of these .