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I am an Architect for Dell.com on the Engineering Excellence team. I (co)Founded MvcContrib, Should, Solution Factory, and Pstrami open source projects. I have co-authored MVC 2 in Action, MVC3 in Action, and MVC 4 in Action. I am a Microsoft MVP.
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Category Archives: testing
How We Do Things – Testing Part 2
This content comes solely from my experience, study, and a lot of trial and error (mostly error). I make no claims stating that which works for me will work for you. As with all things, your mileage may vary, and … Continue reading
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How We Do Things – Evolving our TDD/BDD Practice
This content comes solely from my experience, study, and a lot of trial and error (mostly error). I make no claims stating that which works for me will work for you. As with all things, your mileage may vary, and … Continue reading
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Smart and gets things done *right*
I suppose it’s time for the obligatory weigh-in on the latest bit o’ reckless software advice from Joel Spolsky on the merits of the “Duct Tape Programmer”. I think being a duct tape programmer is a bit like being an … Continue reading
Also posted in .Net, agile, Asp.Net, Asp.Net MVC, mvc, mvccontrib, Tools
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Video of the Continuous Integration workshop
Early this week we ( Jeffrey Palermo and I ) gave a Continuous Integration Workshop in Austin. We were able to record the workshop and our company Headspring Systems made the recordings available on their website. There is just under … Continue reading
Also posted in agile, CC.Net, continous improvement, continous integration, subversion, Tools, Unittests
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Actually Querying with the Specification Pattern
In my previous post, I talked about using the specification pattern for querying collections. I didn’t actually show any code that does what I was talking about, I just showed the set-up and creation of specifications. The following is how … Continue reading
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Free Continuous Integration Workshop in Austin Tuesday Sept 15th 1pm-5pm
I am doing a Continuous Integration Workshop next Tuesday. The admission is free and will be held at the Microsoft Office. To register go here: http://www.headspringsystems.com/services/agile-training/continuous-integration/ This will cover the basics of what continuous integration is as well … Continue reading
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Breaking changes in Ncover 3.0 integration with Cruise Control .Net
There were some changes to the nCover xml reports for code coverage which will break your existing integration with cruise control .net. Specifically if you use the Statistics feature of Cruise Control which is one of the best features … Continue reading
Testing Private & Protected Members of a Class
In my last blog post, someone asked me you can write unit tests for a private or protected method. I gave part of the response in a comment, but I need to give a more detailed description. Focus on the … Continue reading
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Updated TDD Productivity Plug-in for Resharper
I first want to thank JetBrains for being pretty awesome. I have complained a lot about how they are constantly chaining their APIs to Resharper and as a result it makes keeping plugins very hard to maintain but they … Continue reading
Also posted in agile, c#, Open Source Software, Resharper, TDD, Tools, Unittests
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Performance differences in the ASP.Net MVC View Engine when using two View Engines versus a single Composite View Engine.
While I was testing out my VirtualPathProvider implementation in the Opinionated Input Builders series I ran across an interesting performance difference which was quite surprising. In fact even after looking at the source code to the MVC ViewEngineCollection it … Continue reading
Also posted in .Net, Asp.Net, Asp.Net MVC, c#, IIS, mvc, x64
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