Odds and Ends
This post is about catching up on some outstanding items that I wanted to respond to based on feedback I have received from various members of the community in connection […]
Process
About Me
My name is Steve and I am a learn-a-holic; I believe strongly that any day that goes by in which I don’t increase my knowledge is a wasted day. I […]
Summer of NHibernate Session 02a: Exploring Query Methods and Syntaxes (con’t) Screencast is Available
I have posted the next installment in the series which actually diverges slightly from the previously-planned curriculum. The plan for this session was to cover INSERTs, UPDATEs, and DELETEs but […]
This I Believe…
Lately I have been giving some thought to just what exactly the guiding principles are behind the way I both approach and execute my professional software development career. After considering […]
Unit Testing isn’t going to save you time…now (but it won’t cost you either)!
At my current organization, we have been having a number of debates over the past 6-8 months about the relative benefits of writing unit tests for our code. The opponents […]
Inside the Sausage Factory: PART 26 (Building The Dumb View)
In my last three posts (here, here, and here) I documented the slight detours I took to address some perceived shortcomings in two of my tools-of-choice for the SkillPortal Project: CIFactory […]
Inside the Sausage Factory: PART 25 (Arrested by an FxCop)
In my last post, I talked about the second part of the detour that derailed (albeit only temporarily) my progress on the SkillPortal project. The first part of the detour […]
Inside the Sausage Factory: PART 24 (NAnt MbUnit task filter detour)
In the last post, I described the extended detour that my attempt to implement CIFactory took me on. Its worth reiterating, just in case it wasn’t clear from my last […]
Inside the Sausage Factory: PART 23 (Detour…derailed by CIFactory)
Well, its been quite some time (23 days!) since my last post on this project on October 20 and I’ve been on quite the journey in the mean time. It all started innocently enough: with the project […]
Inside the Sausage Factory: PART 21 (On Model-View-Presenter Patterns)
In our last post we took a little detour from developing our solution so that we could fix the nagging problems with the NDbUnit software so that our data-dependent Unit […]