cruizer : development tools

Source Control without Continuous Integration

cruizer — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 06:31:00 GMT

Having a source control system is a must these days, but I must say that coupling that with a continuous integration (CI) build system is just as important. It's really frustrating to pull the supposedly latest or most recent 'stable' or 'production'...(read more)

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 1.0 is out!

cruizer — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 01:06:00 GMT

Just in case you didn't know, IronRuby 1.0 has been released on 12 April (same day as Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0). See how it compares to Matz' Ruby interpreter as far as the test suite goes. No benchmarks found yet, but I wouldn't be...(read more)

Tip: help IronRuby find SharePoint assemblies

cruizer — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:00:00 GMT

One of the pain points in having IronRuby access SharePoint classes is that you'll have to help IronRuby find the appropriate assemblies. IronRuby (at least with the 0.9.0 version) has an IronRuby folder underneath the lib folder in its main directory...(read more)

SharePoint + IronRuby

cruizer — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:51:00 GMT

Yesterday I was banging my head against a (virtual) wall because of frustration trying to debug a WF -based workflow for SharePoint when I thought of a cool idea: why not use IronRuby and its REPL console to explore the SharePoint object model ? That...(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)

Some WCF Gotchas

cruizer — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 23:48:00 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)

SQL is a functional language?!

cruizer — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 01:55:00 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)

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)

IronRuby binaries out now

cruizer — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:19:00 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 — 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)