25 Oct
2008

Refining Context/Specification BDD using Rhino Mocks 3.5

Earlier this year, I wrote this blog post about exploring Behavior-Driven Development as a better way of doing Test-Driven Development. In this post, I spoke about how to organize unit tests by their context and about how to apply a fluent language approach for naming these contexts/specifications. Here is how the example code of the […]

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23 Oct
2008

Boise MSDN Event

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Boise area .NET folks have no shortage of community events these days and November is shaping up with some particularly good gems. These events are free to attend and you get to mingle with same jovial crew you know and love from your favorite user group meeting (ok, that was a stretch). Thursday, November 06 […]

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20 Oct
2008

The Quest for a Personal Information Manager: MyInfo vs Evernote

I’ve been a long time user of MyInfo, a personal information manager in which I keep a long history of information that I’ve assembled over the last couple of years as a developer. As you can see, it has some very nice rich-text editing features and the organization of topics is really easy to use. […]

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17 Oct
2008

Life With My Geek – Hardware Issues

Sometimes it amazes me that some of the smartest people I know really, really suck at lower level tasks.  You know, the sorts of tasks that most of us average people engage in and find ourselves thinking “well, that certainly wasn’t rocket science” when they’re completed.  Things like setting digital clocks, anything at all to […]

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