Last year, I blogged about Test Data Builders here and here. I still use them heavily in my unit tests for creating objects with test data. Heck, I also use this pattern for fluent interfaces in production code. Here is a simple example of this approach: 1: public class CustomerBuilder 2: { 3: public […]
Read MoreRecently we have seen a new side of Microsoft with the community involvement and openness during development of MVC.Net, as well as releasing the source code for ‘viewing’ the BCL. It seems as though it just gets better and better. The Application Framework Core team is looking for your feedback on how the Managed Extensibility […]
Read MoreButchering your perf by using reflection? Swimming in generated code you cant test? Lost trying to weave IL? Check out Colin Meeks post on Using LINQ Expressions to Generate Dynamic Methods.
Read MorePoker Planning is a favorite technique of many people, including me. I like this technique of estimation because it lets us make estimates in relative terms. People are notoriously bad at absolute estimation of the “rank this item one to ten”, variety. Have you ever looked at the website HotOrNot.com? It turns out that pretty […]
Read MoreTime for the obligatory recap…finally! Before I left I wasn’t as pumped up about Seattle as I was for Austin in the fall. This is because my role has changed during the past 6 months and day to day development is very much a thing of the past for me. I suppose the real question […]
Read MoreI expect some people to see this and say, “Hey, that’s clever.” I know that others will read this and think, “What a hack.” Whichever side you fall on, there is little debate that navigating Work Items in Team System via customizable queries can be a little frustrating at times. The rub is in the […]
Read MoreI flew in this morning with Jarod. I’m currently sitting in my hotel room catching up on emails before launching myself into 3 days of ALT.NET. It’s gonna be fun…
Read MoreI just had a meeting where we discussed setting up a TFS 2008 production server and I went through the system requirements with our system administrator. The focus was on groups needed in Active Directory, what software is needed on the server, things like that. Here are some camera phone shots of the whiteboard during […]
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