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The post that stirred up the horNET's nest

I woke up yesterday to find Twitter abuzz with heated tweets by various developers. I live about halfway around the globe from the US so I'm quite used to situations like this, and looking for the news post or product announcement that caused it....

Published 08-04-2010 5:08 PM by cruizer

Filed under: DotNET, C#, .NET, Microsoft, development tools, data

IronRuby presentation slides and demo code

I have posted the presentation slides (in both PowerPoint 2007 and OpenDocument Presentation formats) and demo code here: [EDIT: added link to SlideShare copy] Presentation slides, PowerPoint 2007 format , OpenDocument Presentation format or view online...

Published 05-24-2009 4:54 PM by cruizer

Filed under: DotNET, Open Source, C#, .NET, code, presentation, Microsoft, dynamic languages, development tools, Ruby, IronRuby, event

TDD Step by Step, Part 2: The Database

Welcome to part two of our series on building a Windows application using test-driven development (TDD). In the previous article we drove the design of our entity classes and data access layer by means of unit tests. The unit tests acted more as specifications...

Published 11-24-2008 11:37 AM by cruizer

Filed under: DotNET, TDD, C#, .NET, code, database, agile practices, development tools, unit testing

TDD Step by Step, Part 1

In a hot discussion thread in msforums.ph about the value of unit testing and adopting test-driven development (TDD), a suggestion was made to illustrate how TDD is used in creating a simple application, specifically Keith's October code challenge...

Published 11-24-2008 8:37 AM by cruizer

Filed under: DotNET, TDD, C#, .NET, code, agile practices, unit testing

Microsoft embraces jQuery

I couldn't believe it: read ScottGu's blog post . Finally, Microsoft is getting *it*. No need to fight it, no need to exhibit their traditional NIH mindset and create their own (as they have demonstrated many times, not only in the .NET platform...

Published 09-28-2008 7:46 PM by cruizer

Filed under: DotNET, Open Source, .NET, Microsoft

Learning Ruby from C#

Just in case you haven't seen this yet: http://www.codethinked.com/category/IronRuby-via-C-Series.aspx I'm sure it's a handy tutorial for learning Ruby (using IronRuby for .NET) the language if you've already got C#/.NET background. I...

Published 07-25-2008 7:58 PM by cruizer

Filed under: DotNET, .NET, dynamic languages, development tools, Ruby, IronRuby

Continuous Integration "Hang-ups"

I really like continuous integration . Having come from a company that didn't practice it at all (this was a time I used to regularly work 12 to 16 hours a day), I was so happy when I got into a company that actually practiced it. I found it to be...

Published 06-15-2008 10:44 AM by cruizer

Filed under: DotNET, .NET, agile practices, development tools, continuous integration

JP Hamilton on testing WinForms

JP Hamilton has posted a brief blog post on how he unit tests WinForms . Looks nifty, especially if you use a pattern like Model-View-Presenter for your forms. His rationale is that if you keep on testing only the presenter and mocking out the view in...

Published 05-30-2008 12:46 PM by cruizer

Filed under: DotNET, TDD, development tools, unit testing

Silverlight 2 Unit Testing: slides and code

It was my first time to join a community event in Singapore during yesterday's Heroes Community Launch and it was a blast! It was also cool to see that of nine presentors during the event, three of us are Pinoys. I definitely am looking forward to...

Published 05-18-2008 4:27 PM by cruizer

Filed under: DotNET, C#, .NET, code, presentation, Microsoft, development tools, unit testing

Speaking about Silverlight 2 and Unit Testing

I will be speaking tomorrow at the Heroes Community Launch 2008 here in Singapore with my favourite (boring?!) topic...Unit Testing! Only this time it's about the testing framework that comes with Silverlight 2's beta release. Kinda excited and...

Published 05-16-2008 2:50 PM by cruizer

Filed under: DotNET, C#, .NET, presentation, development tools, unit testing

Lessons learned in optimising Windows forms apps

Wow, I've been in a black hole for months! The usual excuse -- busy at work on projects. Now that we've gotten our app into production, we're now into firefighting, er... I mean maintenance work for that app. Here are some of the lessons I've...

Published 04-25-2008 3:43 PM by cruizer

Filed under: DotNET, C#, .NET, Microsoft

Microsoft's Updated "Guidelines for Test-Driven Development"

The previous incarnation of that Microsoft article was heavily panned by critics and in a rare move, Microsoft actually pulled it out of its developer web site. I didn't realise it but Microsoft actually replaced it with one written by Jeffrey Palermo...

Published 12-24-2007 2:28 PM by cruizer

Filed under: DotNET, TDD, .NET, Microsoft, development tools

InvalidOperationException when accessing a web service

We encountered a strange thing in our current project: there are times our client will bomb out with a web exception when a web service call is cancelled. We found it strange because we enclosed our web service call within a try-catch block, specifically...

Published 11-06-2007 12:15 PM by cruizer

Filed under: DotNET, .NET, services

Weighing in on pipelined continuous integration (CI)

This InfoQ link on pipelined CI got my attention because it was something that I can relate to. The project we're working on used to build on our CruiseControl.NET build server in only three minutes; now it's taking more than 18 minutes to complete...

Published 10-01-2007 12:59 PM by cruizer

Filed under: DotNET, TDD, agile practices, development tools, continuous integration

My journey (to the dark side) is now complete

Just when you thought I've crossed over to the dark side , I guess it wasn't complete yet. This one takes it further. My peers in the office often express amazement at my Visual Studio color theme. Maybe they weren't born yet during DOS (those...

Published 08-07-2007 11:04 AM by cruizer

Filed under: DotNET, .NET, Microsoft, dark side

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