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25 Oct

2009

Integration Test Brought to you by Powershell & NUnit – with a Little Specification Syntax for Flavoring

By: Jason Jarrett Category:General PostTag: New Post, PowerShell, Testing, Unit Testing:2 Comments

One of the tools I?ve used the last half of a year and really enjoyed is the C# specification extension methods when writing unit test assertions. If you?re looking for a little more background on the topic, I wrote about Fluent Specification Extensions in a past blog. Recently I wanted to execute a PowerShell script […]

16 Oct

2009

Thanks ElegantCode for welcoming me! (Jason Jarrett, @staxmanade)

By: Jason Jarrett Category:General PostTag: New Post:

Test 1?2?3? is this blogging software configured correctly??? Wonderful! I?d like to thank David Starr and all the other members of the group for the opportunity to blog here at ElegantCode. A little about me. Prior to joining ElegantCode, I blogged over at staxmanade.blogspot.com. I will probably dual post. (until I decide and give […]

9 Oct

2009

Poker Planning for Windows Mobile

By: Chris Brandsma Category:General PostTag: New Post:

I got annoyed this week. We were doing our planning poker (with the cards) when one of my coworkers broke out his IPhone instead. He had a planning poker app on his freaking IPhone. I whipped out my Windows Mobile phone and ? did nothing. I grabbed a deck of card and moved on. Afterwards […]

9 Oct

2009

Exploring NServiceBus

By: Jan Van Ryswyck Category:General PostTag: New Post:13 Comments

I’ve been learning a bit more about Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Event-Drive Architecture (EDA) over the last couple of months. Something that kept coming back in the articles and books I’ve read so far is the concept of an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). I’ve heard numerous times about NServiceBus, Mass Transit and Rhino Service Bus […]

6 Oct

2009

AutoMapper Introduction and Samples from NETDUG

By: Richard Cirerol Category:General PostTag: New Post:10 Comments

In September, Cory Isakson and I presented AutoMapper to the Boise .NET Developer User Group (NETDUG). As promised, I have included the sample code here. AutoMapper 1.0 RC1 is available on the CodePlex site. At my company, we have embraced convention-over-configuration throughout our applications, from our data access framework (Fluent NHibernate) to our IoC container […]

14 Sep

2009

Silverlight tip – Dynamic TextBlock

By: Guest Blogger Category:General PostTag: New Post:

Problem: You need text to dynamically add elipses, "…", to the end of a sentence. The difficulty is how do you detect the actual length of the string. All characters are not created the same. Ten i?s != ten m?s. Solution: Robby Ingebretsen at NerdPlusArt.com (and of Kaxaml fame) has a dynamic control that does […]

24 Aug

2009

Cooking Bacon, Part 2

By: Guest Blogger Category:General PostTag: New Post, Tony Rasa:13 Comments

?The taste of Bacon is the taste of Freedom.? — unknown I hope you read that in Leonard Nimoy?s voice, from his work on Civilization IV. ?Our scientists have unlocked the secrets of Bacon! Now we can cook bacon!? So after attempting to cook bacon in carbon dioxide, the next logical step was to […]

22 Aug

2009

Cooking Bacon, Part 1

By: Guest Blogger Category:General PostTag: New Post, Tony Rasa:5 Comments

What would happen if you were to cook bacon in an oxygen-poor environment? Would the bacon taste any different for it? Is oxygen a requirement for good bacon? Let?s say you wanted to build a robot to cook bacon, unattended. You don?t want this robot to burn the house down, as that would be less […]