Today I presented the topic of unit testing (surprise, surprise) and Test Driven Development for windows pone applications. I’d like to thank those who managed to arrive to the meeting despite the weather – it was a pleasure. My talk was at the second part of the meeting - right after Eyal who showed how … Continue reading Test Drive your windows phone application
Author: Dror Helper
On object creation and unit tests
There is always a balance between readability and maintainability when writing unit tests.I hate hearing a fellow developer say – “the task took me X time more because I had to fix 100+ tests because I refactored my production code”. This means I’m always on the look for ways to decrease the tests maintenance overhead.While … Continue reading On object creation and unit tests
Agile Practitioners 2014 conference
I have been talking and posting about Agile for a few years now – ever since I discovered SCRUM and unit tests. In the past I had the pleasure to speak in the Agile Practitioners conference. It was fun, great local and international speakers and good crowd. This year I’ve decided to return to the … Continue reading Agile Practitioners 2014 conference
Battle of the mocking framework @NDCLondon
This week I’ve had a chance to come to London (again) and present one of my favorite topics in NDC London. I had a good session which I enjoyed . I had a crowd and was asked very good questions by the members of the audience. The code I’ve used can be found on GitHub … Continue reading Battle of the mocking framework @NDCLondon
Book Review: Async in C# 5.0 by Alex Davies
I’ve been hearing about async/await forever but didn’t really had a chance to use it until recently. After playing with asynchronous code for a while I felt I needed to close a few gaps in my understanding and so I looked for a book to provide me with the complete story. I’m glad I’ve found … Continue reading Book Review: Async in C# 5.0 by Alex Davies
Software news – October 2013
October just ended but I still want to shine a light on new and improved software that were released this month: nDepend v5.0 In the beginning of this month a new version of this great tool was released with a lot of new features that makes this tool even better. If you don’t know what … Continue reading Software news – October 2013
Going to London X 2
It’s been a while since the last time I’ve been at the UK and finally I got a chance to come for a visit.Next month I’m coming to London tom speak at the Agile Tour (1st Nov.).My session will be about how to be agile even if your company isn’t.But that’s not all – I … Continue reading Going to London X 2
C++ Bug hunt – shared_ptr misuse
C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.from Bjarne Stroustrup's FAQ: Did you really say that?I want to share with you a strange bug I’ve been struggling with last week.I had an application that crashed whenever a user logged … Continue reading C++ Bug hunt – shared_ptr misuse
Doing the RIGHT standup meeting
Doing a standup meeting (a.k.a daily SCRUM) meeting should be simple – so how come so many teams are doing it wrong? I believe that a daily meeting is a good practice – and should be practiced by all development teams – with or without using Scrum or any other agile methodology whatsoever. And so … Continue reading Doing the RIGHT standup meeting
IronPython lives!
A few years ago I’ve decided to learn IronPython and so I’ve read a book, wrote some code and blogged about my experience. I really enjoyed coding in Python and the connection with .NET seemed to be promising – that is until Microsoft pulled the plug on IronPython and its sister language IronRuby. I felt … Continue reading IronPython lives!
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