May 2011 - ElegantCode

31 May

2011

Pluralcast 43 : Jeremy Miller on Automated Web Testing

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: New Post:2 Comments

Listen to this episode! [56:58] Jeremy Miller shares the way automated web testing is done at Dovetail software and guess what! It?s cooler than you might think. That?s no surprise given Jeremy?s track record. Jeremy is the Chief Software Architect at Dovetail Software. He is the author of the open source StructureMap tool for Dependency […]

28 May

2011

The value of open-source is the vision not the source code

By: Andreas Håkansson Category:UncategorizedTag: Open Source Software, rant:1 Comment

It seem that every 3-5 month or so, the discussion on the state of the .NET open-source community flairs up. Some say it’s a dead horse being beaten, other that it’s a vibrant, thriving community. Sound familiar? Who cares?! Seriously, who cares? The right thing to do in either case is the exact same thing; […]

27 May

2011

A Quartet of Book Reviews

By: Jan Van Ryswyck Category:General PostTag: Books, New Post:3 Comments

Since a couple of months or so, the amount of time spent for my daily commute to and from work nearly tripled. I also decided to travel by train instead of using my car (which kind of explains the increase of my travelling time). So, trying to make the best of things, I decided to […]

24 May

2011

How Software Testers Scrum

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: New Post:2 Comments

Although there are no titles like ?Software Tester? or even ?Software Developer? in Scrum teams, there are Development Team members with a range of skills that all work together to deliver an increment of functional software. Many of those Development Team members were originally hired as Software Testers and they bring a set of skills […]

23 May

2011

Pluralcast 42 : Brian Peek Develops Multi-Touch

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: New Post:

Listen to this episode! [48:45] In this Pluralcast, Brian Peek talks multi-touch development in .NET. He also reminds us that there is still a thing out there called Microsoft Surface and it is evolving like the rest of the world. Who knew? Brian Peek Brian Peek is a Microsoft C# MVP who has been actively […]

16 May

2011

Free Prism Training Event in Boise

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: New Post:

Boise developers are in for a treat. There is a free (as in beer) training event coming in June. This is your chance to learn Prism, Unity, WPF & MVVM from members of the patterns and practices team themselves. I understand that ElegantCode’s own Brian Lagunas will also be there on hand if (like me) […]

10 May

2011

Taking Baby Steps with Node.js – npm 1.0

By: Jan Van Ryswyck Category:UncategorizedTag: Node.js:1 Comment

< The list of previous installments can be found here. > Isaac recently released version 1.0 of npm, which is a package manager for Node.js. I?ve been using npm very early on when I started fiddling with Node.js and I?ve come to rely on it quite heavily. After I upgraded to one of the release […]

9 May

2011

Pluralcast 41 : Tiberiu Covaci on Asynchronous ASP.NET

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: New Post:4 Comments

Listen to this episode! [35:01] Tibi joins us on this episode to tell us about some little-known features in ASP.NET, support for asynchronous operations. This terribly handy technique has been with us for several editions of ASP.NET, so odds are that you can start taking advantage of it today, regardless of the .NET version your […]