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So if you're a software developer and haven't been living under a rock all this week, by now you've probably read about the beta release of .NET 3.5 SP1. If not, read about it here on ScottGu's blog or here on BradA's . I'm not a big fan of the naming conventions here. I still believe that .NET 3.5 should...
Over the course of my career, the way I develop software has gone through a lot of changes. Coming from Clipper, talking directly to flat-file xBase tables, then to Delphi, still talking to the database directly but this time to a "proper" database like Informix and SQL Server, and then to...
I had a brief IM discussion today with Adam Cogan . Adam doesn't know me but I've known him since back in ... hmm ... 2001(?) when I attended a presentation he did on Reporting Services for SQL Server 2000 in Canberra. Since then I've seen him present a few times (both in person and on DNRTV ) and I...
As you saw in the previous post , this weekend I travelled (twice!) to Wagga with Andrew and Fordy from work to Code Camp Oz . I had known from reading the agenda that this year's code camp was going to be something special - presentations from the likes of Paul Stovell , Joseph Cooney , Shane Morris...
Just wanted to blog the fact that I just twittered about IMing with Andrew , who is in fact sitting right next to me at Code Camp Oz . Three layers of geek indirection. Glorious!...
I suppose you'd have to have been hiding under a rock to not know this by now if you're any sort of real geek, but Jeff Atwood (of Coding Horror ) and Joel Spolsky (of Joel on Software ), both luminaries in the software-development-blogging arena, have started a new site called Stack Overflow ! The site...
In a previous post I described a "ValidationResult" class we've created here at work for "lazy validation", where the "IsValid" property is a nullable boolean and is set to null if the code can't determine its value without the user's help. Earlier this week we were working on a method that should create...
Over the past week or so we've been keeping an eye on Rob Conery's blog , watching his series of " MVC Storefront " screencasts. Rob's putting together an e-commerce site using the new ASP.NET MCV framework, and he's doing it from the ground up as an exercise in test-driven development (TDD...
Last night at our April meeting of the Albury/Wodonga .NET User Group I did a small presentation about unit testing and mocking. I'm a self-confessed noob at this stuff: I have a keen interest in the concept of test-driven development, testing, mocking, all that stuff, but I haven't ever actually done...