ElegantCode

30 Aug

2013

Some New Features for SpecFlow and SpecRun

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

Christian Hassa over at TechTalk was good enough to send me an email recently with some videos showing new features they’ve released into SpecRun, their integration test runner for SpecFlow. SpecRun Overview SpecRun TFS integration They’ve solved some problems around TFS build integration for SpecFlow that simply makes ATDD scenario execution a seamless build […]

15 Aug

2013

Taking Toddler Steps with Node.js – The Towering Inferno Revisited

By: Jan Van Ryswyck Category:UncategorizedTag: Node.js:2 Comments

Soon after I started using Node.js, I ran into the phenomenon of multiple nested callbacks that create some kind of horizontal tower effect. The solution I came up with in order to improve the readability of my code was using a library called step, as described in this blog post that I wrote at that […]

11 Aug

2013

Evolving UX with Small Increments

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: New Post:1 Comment

I?ve started noticing more details of UX design in the software I use on a daily basis. Recently I noted an example of reducing a two-click flow to a one-click flow. Note the blue button on my Google email. Before this Send+ button existed, only Send appeared. I would hit Send on the reply, then […]

2 Aug

2013

Syncing Visual Studio 2013 Settings in the Cloud

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: New Post:7 Comments

If you have pulled the Visual Studio 2013 Preview, you have seen that you are prompted for a Microsoft ID login (formerly Live ID) upon first launch of Visual Studio. This is because Visual Studio is now storing my preferences in the cloud, under my Microsoft account. This feature takes a page from things like […]

29 Jul

2013

.devdiv//AppDays with Microsoft Interns

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

Internships for big companies like Microsoft are replete with lore and not a few jokes. They are also highly sought after, competitive, and worth every minute of the experience they offer. Never having done an internship myself, I never really understood that. This summer, I have had the opportunity to work with several Microsoft interns […]

26 Jul

2013

Byte Magazine Archives

By: Jan Van Ryswyck Category:UncategorizedTag: Books:

Earlier this week I accidentally stumbled on archive.org where they are hosting an extensive backlog of old issues of Byte magazine. This magazine was an American microcomputer magazine, influential in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s (and well before my time). I’ve been skimming through a couple of these old magazines, and I got […]

19 Jul

2013

Seven Languages in Seven Weeks

By: Jan Van Ryswyck Category:UncategorizedTag: Books:13 Comments

A while ago, I was thinking about which programming language I wanted to learn next. At first I was doubting between Scala, Ruby or perhaps Clojure. But I couldn’t really make up my mind. So I decided to pick up Seven Languages in Seven Weeks. This way I was able to take a small bite […]

10 Jul

2013