If you exchange email with me on a regular basis, you know that I am the king of email faux pas. I regularly do things like this: Use CNTRL+Enter to send an email sooner than I really want to send it. Send emails that are missing attachments. Send from my work account when I meant […]
Read MoreI just read the following post by Robert C. Martin. In it, he says the following: If you can enumerate the states, and events, then you know the number of paths through the system. So if Given/When/Then statements are truly nothing more than state transitions, all we need to do is enumerate the number of […]
Read MoreA first delivery of our current project is going into production very soon. The team has worked hard and is still working very hard to straighten out the last issues. As with every delivery, pressure always rises a tiny bit. This is were the men are separated from the boys. We have all been in […]
Read MoreThis morning, I spent the first 30 minutes of my day figuring out why the CI build failed after I checked in some changes to the code. No big deal, right? I just messed up. Turns out that I didn’t screw up the code but TFS did. Before committing the code to the source repository, […]
Read MoreBelieve me, I understand TDD. I grok it. It is in my soul. I also happen to believe (and know from experience) that unit test frameworks are valuable far beyond their use in TDD. Some of the best uses are for integration tests at the API level. It is this coolness that makes it so […]
Read MoreI have spent the last couple of days getting all the kinks worked out on my 2 boxes to get Windows Server 2008 up and going. The whole reason I am going through this is for Hyper-V, because I do a lot of work on VMs. The flat out fact is that Hyper-V is way […]
Read MoreThere were some comments on a previous post about how the problem described in that post is somehow typical for applications that use ORMs. I really could not disagree more. It seems that even today, in 2008 mind you, we still have a lot of people who are convinced that ORM usage can never be […]
Read MoreI am happy to announce a new Elegant Code contributor, Davy Brion. Davy is already one of the family, a pragmatic .NET developer who has been dropping knowledge on his personal blog for quite awhile and now he will be sharing those pearls of wisdom with us here. Welcome, Davy.
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