Although there is some time until the official release of Visual Studio 2010 Microsoft has been kind enough to provide us early adopters a beta version to play with. Fortunately for me in I had actual work to do using the new visual studio and decided it was a good fit for me. I especially … Continue reading 4 Reasons I can’t wait for VS2010
Author: Dror Helper
How to find a bug in an application you didn’t write
I want to share with you an experience I had today – I solved a bug… Although I solve bugs each day as part of my work this bug was different: On my way back from work today I called a friend to see how he is doing. He is on the way to earning … Continue reading How to find a bug in an application you didn’t write
Getting started with IronPython – Part 3: unit testing
Welcome to the 3rd part of my quest to learn IronPython. In this part I’ll show how I’ve unit tested my application. Previous parts of this series: Where to start – resources, environment and how I’ve started learning IronPython Let’s write some code – the project I’m writing along with my impressions of how things … Continue reading Getting started with IronPython – Part 3: unit testing
Book Review – Head First Design Patterns
I always believed OO design patterns to be necessary to know and understand by all software developers, I didn’t like the fact that sometimes design was forced into a known design pattern just because a pattern existed (and wrote about it). After seen patterns abused time after time I lost faith and I was frustrated … Continue reading Book Review – Head First Design Patterns
Free Typemock licenses
If you're a blogger and you're interested in ASP.NET development - this is for you. Typemock is giving free ASP.NET unit testing bundle licenses to bloggers. You can read all about it in our latest blog post.
SharpDevelop 3.1 Beta released – with some IronPython goodness
When I’ve started learning IronPython I choose #Develop as my IDE. Because it had IronPython intellisense and debugging support it seemed like a good fit for my simple project. When my project needed basic UI I rolled up my sleeves and wrote a winform control line by line. It seems that the good people of … Continue reading SharpDevelop 3.1 Beta released – with some IronPython goodness
Unit tests vs. Integration tests
There's a hot discussion going on between myself and Ayende (Oren Eini) about the different between unit tests and integration tests specifically on how much harder writing unit test is. It all started when I commented on a post Oren wrote: Unit tests vs. Integration tests in a post of my own (at my company's … Continue reading Unit tests vs. Integration tests
Getting started with IronPython – Part 2: Let’s write some code
In the previous part I wrote on how I’ve leant the basics of IronPython programming. In this post I will show the first lines I wrote as part of the project I decided to write in order to learn IronPython. Before I div into the code I’d like to take a moment to explain about … Continue reading Getting started with IronPython – Part 2: Let’s write some code
15 Resharper keyboard shortcuts you need to know
I use Resharper daily and it help me to write better code faster. The only downside is that the developer needs to learn many keyboard shortcuts in order to properly use its functionality. While I'm still learning new shortcuts every day I've found that I keep using several shortcuts most of the time.The list below … Continue reading 15 Resharper keyboard shortcuts you need to know
Visual Studio windows mania
This happened today while I was debugging a failing test using visual studio Weird...

