Coming Soon: Screencast Series: Summer of NHibernate
My company makes extensive use of the NHibernate O/R Mapper technology in many of our solutions and we sometimes hire new developers that have good skills and experience but who […]
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Book List: What I’m Reading
What I'm Reading Elisabeth Freeman: Head First Design Patterns (Head First) Joshua Kerievsky: Refactoring to Patterns (The Addison-Wesley Signature Series) Gerard Meszaros: xUnit Test Patterns: Refactoring Test Code (The Addison-Wesley […]
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: Blog Posts to-date
As a convenience, here is a quick summary of the prior posts that cover the ‘Inside the Sausage Factory’ series to-date. As this covers the initial refinement of features, design of […]
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 22 (Mocking the View)
In our last post we built the beginnings of the View and the Presenter parts of our home-grown Model-View-Presenter approach to the User Interface for our application. Although it would […]
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 […]