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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.
Donn Felker – October 7, 2008
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.
Donn Felker – October 3, 2008
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.
Donn Felker – October 2, 2008
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.
Donn Felker – September 30, 2008
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.
Donn Felker – September 26, 2008
New Digs
I moved to Minneapolis and joined Magenic, a .NET consulting shop packed with MVPs, including Rockford Lhotka, creator of CSLA.NET.
Donn Felker – September 24, 2008
Testing For Developers Series
Kicking off a series untangling the confusion around unit, integration, functional, regression, and load tests, with my own opinionated definitions.
Donn Felker – September 19, 2008
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.
Donn Felker – September 19, 2008
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.
Donn Felker – September 18, 2008
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.
Donn Felker – September 18, 2008
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.
Donn Felker – September 17, 2008
Restoring a Dell Inspiron 6400 To Factory
Dell's PCRestore.exe utility fails silently with no error text. Here's the actual System Restore path that resets an Inspiron 6400 to factory.
Donn Felker – September 17, 2008