cruizer : DotNET

The post that stirred up the horNET's nest

cruizer — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 05:08:00 GMT

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....(read more)

IronRuby presentation slides and demo code

cruizer — Sun, 24 May 2009 04:54:00 GMT

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...(read more)

TDD Step by Step, Part 2: The Database

cruizer — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:37:00 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 — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:37:00 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)

Microsoft embraces jQuery

cruizer — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 07:46:00 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)

Learning Ruby from C#

cruizer — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:58:00 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)

Continuous Integration "Hang-ups"

cruizer — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 22:44:00 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 00:46:00 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)

Silverlight 2 Unit Testing: slides and code

cruizer — Sun, 18 May 2008 04:27:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Speaking about Silverlight 2 and Unit Testing

cruizer — Fri, 16 May 2008 02:50:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Lessons learned in optimising Windows forms apps

cruizer — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:43:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

cruizer — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 03:28:00 GMT

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...(read more)

InvalidOperationException when accessing a web service

cruizer — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 01:15:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Weighing in on pipelined continuous integration (CI)

cruizer — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:59:00 GMT

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...(read more)

My journey (to the dark side) is now complete

cruizer — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 23:04:00 GMT

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...(read more)