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Twin Cities Code Camp 6 – Testing with Mocks – Code and Presentation
Code and slides from my Testing with Mocks talk at Twin Cities Code Camp 6, including the TypeMock Isolator examples used in the demo.
2009.04.04Read →Presentation Settings for Visual Studio
A downloadable Visual Studio settings file with 16pt fonts everywhere, so your audience can actually read your code during a talk.
2009.04.03Read →How to Use Rhinos AssertWasNotCalled
How to use Rhino Mocks' AssertWasNotCalled to prove a service method never fires when validation fails, with a working ASP.NET MVC example.
2009.03.30Read →Castle ActiveRecord – NonUniqueObjectException
Fixing Castle ActiveRecord's NonUniqueObjectException by evicting a cached NHibernate object from the session after you're done reading it.
2009.03.29Read →Nine Questions with Me
I sat down for Chris G. Williams' long-running Nine Questions interview series, joining a list of some pretty notable names. Here's the interview.
2009.03.26Read →A New Development Term: Blackfield Development
Brownfield development gone nightmare mode: legacy code so obscure and untested even its original authors can't explain it. I call it blackfield development.
2009.03.25Read →ASP.NET App – is not a valid Win32 application
Getting is not a valid Win32 application on an ASP.NET MVC app under IIS7? Enable 32-Bit Applications in the app pool's advanced settings.
2009.03.24Read →Cool YouTube Tip : Seek
Quick YouTube trick: append #t=2m13s to any URL to jump straight to that timestamp, and use the start parameter when embedding videos.
2009.03.20Read →Unit Testing JsonResult in MVC
A simple trick for unit testing JsonResult in ASP.NET MVC: cast the anonymous type to a RouteValueDictionary and assert on its keys.
2009.03.20Read →AHK Script for Enabling/Disabling Spark Intellisense
An AutoHotkey script that toggles Visual Studio between ReSharper and Spark View Engine intellisense with one keyboard shortcut, no manual menu digging.
2009.03.02Read →An Exercise in Managing the Measurements
NCover only profiles assemblies touched during test runs, so untested code vanishes from coverage reports. Here's the hack that forces it to load everything.
2009.02.19Read →Build Report Will Not Show in CCNET
A CruiseControl.NET gotcha: adding NCoverExplorer to dashboard.config needs both a CCNET service restart and an IIS reset, or the report never shows.
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