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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

Procedural Object-Oriented Programming (POOP)

At some point in one's career, a typical developer would encounter the procedural vs. object-oriented programming (OOP) debates. For instance, this page explains why it is preferable to do procedural programming over OOP, while this page tells of...

Published 07-10-2007 5:59 PM by cruizer

Surprising

That was a surprising email message I received first thing in the morning yesterday. I was awarded MVP for Visual Developer - Visual C#! Pardon the cliche but I really thought it wouldn't happen -- mainly because of my pro-open source stance . Anyway...

Published 07-03-2007 5:19 PM by cruizer

Filed under: General

A fragment of my computing past

I was doing my usual Google Reader daily morning routine when I came across this site: http://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/ . In 1988 my dad just bought me a sparkling new PC XT clone. My classmate who owned an Atari 800XL (or was it XE?) computer showed...

Published 06-19-2007 1:16 PM by cruizer

Predictable code

In my early years of programming, performance was everything. These days, since I don't do system-level programming anymore, code maintainability is more important. Of course that doesn't mean to say that it's OK for my code to suck so many...

Published 06-12-2007 7:55 AM by cruizer

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

Dell goes Ubuntu!

This is pleasant news: Dell and Ubuntu announced in a joint conference that Dell will be pre-installing Ubuntu 7.04 on some of its desktops and laptops . I have been using Ubuntu "Feisty Fawn" 7.04 for over a week now and I am very much impressed...

Published 05-02-2007 12:03 AM by cruizer

Filed under: Open Source, linux

TDD in PHP presentation

Yesterday I had the privilege of speaking about Test Driven Development in front of PHP developers. I had a bit of trouble at first with the projector not playing nice with my cheapo notebook. Too bad that we didn't have much time to cover necessary...

Published 04-29-2007 7:49 AM by cruizer

Filed under: PHPStuff, TDD, presentation, agile practices

I hate PHP gotchas

I like PHP , but some of its gotchas are really getting on my nerves. I wonder if any of you have encountered this particular issue that's been causing my hair to fall off lately. One system I did for a client was generating badly-formed reports in...

Published 04-26-2007 4:11 PM by cruizer

Filed under: PHPStuff

Thanks, Keith!

The picture says it all...

Published 04-20-2007 5:39 PM by cruizer

Filed under: General

TDD is even more important when using dynamic languages

I made that observation, while doing PHP TDD-style, in my previous post . In this interview with Dave Astels and Steven Baker , they also note that TDD is a necessity in dynamic languages such as Ruby. Let me quote: It (the compiler, in statically-typed...

Published 04-10-2007 10:39 AM by cruizer

Filed under: TDD, agile practices, Behavior Driven Development

Test-First Demo: Developing a User Login Facility, part 1

OK, so now it's time to "walk the talk." I'll be demo-ing here how to develop a user login facility test first -- how you can begin a test, then code your class to pass that test. Then we'll add one feature or behavior at a time until we completely fulfill...

Published 04-03-2007 12:26 PM by cruizer

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

A test-first demo on the web

While I was mulling over what to demo for test-first development here in this blog, I chanced upon this CodeProject article . What do you think about this? Actually the same problem was the one I demoed in my previous MSDN Connection events for Microsoft...

Published 03-29-2007 1:32 PM by cruizer

Filed under: DotNET, TDD, .NET

Test first, or test after?

I posted a thread at the msforums.ph site regarding this question to get a feel of how developers feel about testing. So far there have been only a few replies. When I first encountered test-driven development, I knew it would be helpful to learn this...

Published 03-28-2007 7:14 PM by cruizer

Are you passionate about your employer, or are you passionate about your work?

Nice question posed by Kathy Sierra , author of some of the best-selling "Head First" books for Java.

Published 02-14-2007 10:35 AM by cruizer

Introduction to C# and .NET Part 2 slides

Download the slides in PowerPoint format , OpenDocument format or PDF . I still do not know what to expect for tomorrow's event. Hopefully the attendees will be able to learn fast and that I will be able to explain things clearly. These part 2 slides...

Published 02-02-2007 4:46 PM by cruizer

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

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