Monthly Archives: March 2010

Find And Replace With Regular Expressions In Vim / ViEmu

Posted on March 30, 2010 by Derick Bailey

Here’s another entry in my how-i-saved-a-few-hundred-keystrokes blog posts on using Vim / ViEmu with Visual Studio.   The Code That Needs To Change I’ve got a data access method that is mapping around 50 fields into an object from a … Continue reading →

Posted in .NET, C#, Productivity, Refactoring, Vim | 2 Comments

Why I Write Automated Tests For My Code

Posted on March 29, 2010 by Derick Bailey

I started my journey of unit testing my code about 4 years ago… I had played with nunit prior to that, but I never understood the point and would delete my tests after I got them to pass… that was … Continue reading →

Posted in Agile, Behavior Driven Development, Craftsmanship, Pragmatism, Quality, Unit Testing | 3 Comments

LosTechies Welcomes Derek Greer!

Posted on March 26, 2010 by Derick Bailey

A former coworker and good friend of mine, Derek Greer, has joined up with the LosTechies crew. He previously lived and worked in the Austin, TX area where I had the good fortune to meet him and hire him on … Continue reading →

Posted in Community, Craftsmanship | Leave a comment

Red/Green/Refactor, For The Right Reasons

Posted on March 25, 2010 by Derick Bailey

First, let me say this: WHAAaa???? something useful occurred on Google Buzz?! :) Ok, now that I’ve got that over with… there was a useful stream of comments over on the extended twitter reply network from one of my tweets … Continue reading →

Posted in Agile, Analysis and Design, AntiPatterns, Pragmatism, Principles and Patterns, Refactoring, Unit Testing | 11 Comments

Law Of Demeter: Extension Methods Don’t Count

Posted on March 25, 2010 by Derick Bailey

We all know the Law of Demeter, right? It’s the principle that says “don’t let the paperboy reach into your wallet when he wants to be paid. It’s your wallet, you decide what form of payment and how much without … Continue reading →

Posted in .NET, C#, Principles and Patterns | 12 Comments

I Want Assert.NotYetImplemented(); In .NET Test Frameworks

Posted on March 24, 2010 by Derick Bailey

One of my coworkers recently tweeted this: I do that a lot with c# and nunit. It helps me to figure out where I need to go, what tests are going to be organized where, etc. I certainly don’t expect … Continue reading →

Posted in .NET, Agile, AntiPatterns, C#, Community, Continuous Integration, Resharper, RSpec, Ruby, Test Automation, Tools and Vendors, Unit Testing | 15 Comments

Eliminating Repetitious Coding With Vim / ViEmu And Macros

Posted on March 24, 2010 by Derick Bailey

Anyone that has been following me on twitter recently is probably aware that I’ve been trying to learn Vim and ViEmu for Visual Studio. It’s been a very slow, somewhat painful learning process, but I think it is finally starting … Continue reading →

Posted in .NET, C#, Refactoring, Tools and Vendors, Vim | 3 Comments

Running Ruby And Rake (and albacore) Without Installing Them

Posted on March 23, 2010 by Derick Bailey

One of the more frequent complaints that I’ve heard about using Ruby and Rake to build .NET systems is that you have to install yet another framework and learn yet another language to be able to use it. In a … Continue reading →

Posted in Albacore, Rake, Ruby, Source Control | 6 Comments

Swashbuckling Tentacles

Posted on March 22, 2010 by Derick Bailey

Surrounded by the wriggling tentacles of the beast that had attached itself to the ship, Ed – the lone surviving member of the ship’s crew – brandishes he sword and lunges toward the nearest of the appendages. With a cry … Continue reading →

Posted in AntiPatterns, Brownfield, Continuous Improvement, Model-View-Presenter, Principles and Patterns, Semantics | 3 Comments

.NET Stack Traces And Anonymous Methods

Posted on March 19, 2010 by Derick Bailey

I learned a little more about stack traces in .NET today… in a very painful manner… but, lesson learned! Hopefully someone else will be able to learn this lesson without having to spend 4 hours on it like I did. … Continue reading →

Posted in .NET, C#, Debugging, Stack Trace | 7 Comments