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TDD Step by Step, Part 2: The Database

cruizer — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 03:37:00 GMT

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...(read more)

TDD Step by Step, Part 1

cruizer — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:37:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Data Access with LINQ

cruizer — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:25:00 GMT

I discussed LINQ (LINQ to objects, XML, then SQL) during the Microsoft TechFEST event here in Singapore, and the slides are here . You can download the sample code as well....(read more)

WCF: Shifting from HTTP to TCP

cruizer — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 07:23:00 GMT

We've decided to shift our project's WCF services from HTTP to TCP. Why? We've got a few reasons: Performance is important. We all know the TCP-based protocol (used by NetTcpBinding) is faster and has lower latency than the HTTP-based protocol...(read more)

A mind-opening article

cruizer — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 02:19:00 GMT

From MSDN Magazine: Test Your Security IQ Most C/C++ developers should be able to spot all of the security bugs illustrated in the examples; C# coders would find this very informative....(read more)

Some WCF Gotchas

cruizer — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 02:48:00 GMT

A project our team (in my employer) has been working on for a good number of months now makes extensive use of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). WCF is nothing really ground-breaking; its significance is that it unifies the various inter-process...(read more)

Concurrency is all the rage in MSDN Magazine

cruizer — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 03:02:00 GMT

The October 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine features lots of articles about parallelism and concurrency. I guess it's all the rage these days! That's what happens when Moore's Law is no longer directly related to more GHz but more CPU cores instead...(read more)

Speaking at Microsoft TechFEST 2008 Singapore

cruizer — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:30:00 GMT

I will be speaking at Microsoft TechFEST 2008 Singapore on October 23rd. The topic? Nothing special -- just same old LINQ Hopefully I can present it in a practical manner that will help developers get up to speed with it. In any case, I think LINQ is...(read more)

Microsoft embraces jQuery

cruizer — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 10:46:00 GMT

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...(read more)

SQL is a functional language?!

cruizer — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 04:55:00 GMT

I was taken aback by the claim, mentioned by a speaker in an event I attended about two nights ago. The topic was about development in languages and concurrency, which particularly interested me. I don't know if you'll agree with the claim but...(read more)

Using search engines from an IE6 address bar

cruizer — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:37:00 GMT

After using progressive browsers such as Firefox and Safari in my previous employers, imagine my dismay when I realised we were stuck with IE6. One of the things I missed as I had to step back and bear with old IE6 is the absence of the search bar. We're...(read more)

Learning Ruby from C#

cruizer — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:58:00 GMT

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...(read more)

IronRuby binaries out now

cruizer — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:19:00 GMT

Of course it's still in Alpha, but get 'em here ! Took it out for a quick spin and it seems still rough around the edges, but hey...no need to build it yourself anymore if you want to try it now....(read more)

Continuous Integration "Hang-ups"

cruizer — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 01:44:00 GMT

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...(read more)

JP Hamilton on testing WinForms

cruizer — Fri, 30 May 2008 03:46:00 GMT

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...(read more)