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.NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010
.NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 are already coming with ALM features like Test Impact View, gated check-in, and branch visualization tooling.
2008.10.07Read →Twin Cities Code Camp This Weekend
Quick reminder: Twin Cities Code Camp is this weekend and I'm speaking on using the Workflow Rules Engine within WCF for business logic.
2008.10.07Read →4 Common Follies Made In Unit/Integration Testing
Four testing mistakes I've been burned by: skipping getters/setters, sharing a dev database, testing against live external services, and unfinished test stubs.
2008.10.03Read →RuleSetDialog & LINQ Queries
Can you use LINQ inside the WF RuleSetDialog editor? No. Here's why it fails validation and a workaround using properties and methods instead.
2008.10.02Read →That Sneaky .NET 3.5 External RuleSet Toolkit Sample
The .NET 3.5 External RuleSet Toolkit sample for externalizing Workflow's rule engine is oddly buried in the WCF samples download, not the WF ones.
2008.09.30Read →
Resizing a VHD and a Volume
Ran out of disk space in a Virtual PC VHD? Here's how to resize it with VHDResizer, remount it, and extend the volume with diskpart.
2008.09.26Read →New Digs
I moved to Minneapolis and joined Magenic, a .NET consulting shop packed with MVPs, including Rockford Lhotka, creator of CSLA.NET.
2008.09.24Read →Testing For Developers Series
Kicking off a series untangling the confusion around unit, integration, functional, regression, and load tests, with my own opinionated definitions.
2008.09.19Read →
Unit Testing – It’s not what most of you think …
Most tests developers call unit tests are actually integration tests. Here's how dependency injection and mocking fix that, with real code.
2008.09.19Read →Book Review: Be Prepared
A review of Be Prepared: A Practical Handbook for New Dads, the no-nonsense, funny alternative to typical sugar-coated new-parent books.
2008.09.18Read →Custom Google Maps Geocode Powershell CmdLet
A custom Get-GoogleGeocode PowerShell cmdlet that geocodes one address, a list of addresses, or an entire file of them via the Google Maps API.
2008.09.18Read →My 2009 Browser Forecast
A gut-feeling, Twitter-fueled forecast for how the 2009 browser market shakes out, with a buzzy new upstart called Chrome stirring things up.
2008.09.17Read →