If you’ve been developing software for a few years you might have noticed an increase in the need of parallel programming and it’s no wonder in these day and time when most computers have at least 2 cores that can run two actions at the same time. Along with the need comes the solution - … Continue reading Best multi threaded programming tool ever!
If you’ve been writing unit tests for a short while you might have noticed that writing good unit tests is hard. The object under test can be hard to create because it require dependencies that you just cannot provide or some complicated environment is needed just to make the test pass. When writing a unit … Continue reading Getting started with Fake Objects – Part 1: why fake is better then mock
It is always nice to hear when a fellow developer succeeds and what makes these posts even better is the fact that they also contain valuable tips as well. Lessons learned from an Agile project (David Tchepak): Dave^2 writes about an agile project he’s been part of for the last 18 months - and he … Continue reading Links: Being Successful with Agile and unit testing
I’ve been using TeamCity for some time now and I love it - It’s easy to install and use. TeamCity can also run unit tests using several test frameworks and collects data about the tests runs as long as you’re using one of the supported build scripts (e.c. NAnt or MSBuild) – from how many … Continue reading How to collect NUnit test results in TeamCity
Today when writing tests for a new project built using VS2010 I had an interesting problem: NUnit would not run my unit tests because the assembly that contained my unit tests was compiled using a newer version of the .NET runtime. There are several solutions to solve this issue from downgrading my project to use … Continue reading How to run NUnit tests created with VS2010 and .NET 4
I use twitter quite a lot and I’m always on the lookup for a new way to read it’s almost endless stream of data. Today I’ve found a new and interesting client from the people who brought the first window native twitter client – Seesmic. Seesmic look takes a new approach to showing twitter and … Continue reading Seesmic look – the twitter client for your mom
If you the Israel .NET Developers User Group (IDNDUG) and you’d like to learn more about unit testing you can view my presentation here. I talked about unit tests and how to write good unit tests in the first session. I had a lot of fun and I hope that so did my audience. http://docs.google.com/present/embed?id=dd3zxkh_192g6gkd4gc&interval=5 … Continue reading Real world unit testing presentation
Polyglot programming defined From Wikipedia: Polyglot (person), someone who aptly and with a high level of fluency uses many languages. The word derives from the Ancient Greek πολύγλωττος (poluglōttos, “'many-tongued, polyglot'”), from πολύς (polus, “many”) + γλῶττα (glōtta, “'tongue, language'”) The term was (probably) coined by Niel Ford in his blog post Polyglot Programming (from … Continue reading Why you want to be a Polyglot programmer
There are quite a few link blogs out there, like Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew, The Morning Brew and Tech Tweets. These sites help to stay on the bleeding edge by providing new links daily. Perhaps I’m getting nostalgic because of the new year, instead of posting links from the last week I’d like to post … Continue reading Two (and a half) development links from the past
Not being able to unit test an essential scenario is one of the reasons developers stop unit testing their code. In fact most of the time when a team decides not to use TDD (Test Driven Development) is because it seems as if they won’t be able to test the production code using unit tests. … Continue reading How to unit test “un-testable” code (in a nutshell)
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