Of course, I am not the first person to do this, but gosh, isn?t it cool? This is the test suite from a project I am working on and I decided to move the BDD naming convention into the syntax: (class name) + (method name) = behavioral sentence This library has 100% code coverage and […]
Read MoreMy geek asked me to help him with a seemingly simple task. “Will you help me get a new cell phone?” Seems simple enough. Fairly straight forward. How hard could it be? An hour at the cell phone shop, sign a few papers, hand over the credit card, and ta-da!, you’ve got a new phone. […]
Read MoreEarlier this week I went back to work after a refreshing (and very much needed) vacation. During this past week I participated in some interesting discussions that made me think about software engineering and our craft in general. I want to share some of my thoughts, so here goes … Design == Code In my […]
Read MoreAfter leaving my day job (today was my last day), I needed a new phone. I have been through several and ended up with the iPhone. I am enjoying talking about it in first person. “iPhone is really useable.” “iPhone’s browser is great.” “Twitterific on iPhone is cool.” “I can listen to Pandora on iPhone.” […]
Read MoreLast night we had a nice turnout (a bit small, but that just makes things cozy…right?) Topics discussed: WPF’ing in WinForms *dealing with namespace collisions *loading Xaml via code *load/save with XamlWriter and XamlReader *InkCanvas control for free hand drawing *Images in WPF and persistence issues with XamlWriter JQuery : […]
Read MoreRegistration for the Continuous Improvement in Software Development Conference (Kaizen) is now open. The event will be held Thursday, October 30th to Sunday, November 2nd at St. Edward’s University Professional Education Center, Austin, TX. There will be workshops by some of the industries best held on Thursday & Friday, and an Open Space over the […]
Read MoreChris and David were lucky enough to sit down (okay, it was a conference call) with Grigori Melnik and Ajoy Krishnamoorthy from Microsoft?s Patterns and Practices. Grigori and Ajoy covered a wide range of topics including Agile development practices within P&P, what P&P has to offer the community, and forthcoming products from the team. Show […]
Read MoreI was recently presented a rather interesting question, ?Are our products technically current?? The easy answer is to look at something like whether or not our web applications will run on the latest version of IIS and whether or not our applications perform properly under the latest browser versions. That?s the easy way out though. […]
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