It’s hard to start TDD and using Unit Test without a good mentor. Although writing unit tests seems simple I know I learnt a lot by having my unit tests reviewed by a seasoned TDD’er. When such a person doesn’t exist at the place of work a developer need to extend his search in order … Continue reading Test Reviews at ISerializable
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ReSharper 4.5 Beta
One of the reasons I heard not to use JetBrains ReSharper is its performance overhead. As a developer there is nothing more frustrating then having Visual Studio freeze and chock during coding. JetBrains decided to address this problem and did some work recently released ReSharper 4.5 Beta version. If you never tried ReSharper or tried … Continue reading ReSharper 4.5 Beta
Code Formatter for Windows Live Writer
When Writing a technical post I often need to post code snippets. For readability I want the code to have syntax highlighting and indentation,Since I've started blogging I've tried several Live Writer plugins but never found one that didn't mess the html or caused unexpected CSS to appear in the post. Right now I'm using … Continue reading Code Formatter for Windows Live Writer
Microsoft Virtual Tech Days – Here I come!
On the 1st of April Microsoft is having 24 hours of online sessions. During those 24 hours (starting 12:00 AM GMT) speakers from all over the world will host live online sessions in one of the following tracks: Windows Development and Frameworks Windows Mobile Development Office and SharePoint Development Developer Tools, Languages & Practices Web … Continue reading Microsoft Virtual Tech Days – Here I come!
The cost of Test Driven Development
Last week I wrote a post on my company's blog about the cost of TDD (or more accurately how much money it saves). One of the reasons I wrote that post because it think that when discussing TDD the cost/benefit ratio never comes up. Today I found that Andrew Woodward has wrote a review of … Continue reading The cost of Test Driven Development
Where are all the VB.NET blogs – an update
In my last post Where are all the VB.NET blogs? I commented that it seems like the amount of VB.NET specific information on the web has dwindled since the .NET 1.x days. Well it seems that at least the number of VB.NET developers has not. A friend has sent me a link to a post: … Continue reading Where are all the VB.NET blogs – an update
Where are all the VB.NET blogs?
When I started learning .NET I learnt mostly by reading examples and tutorials I found on the internet, I read sites such as Code Project and .NET 247 from front to back and found several blogs that eased my way into the .NET world. During my quest to become a good .NET developer I came … Continue reading Where are all the VB.NET blogs?
Presentation from .NET Software Architects User Group
Yesterday I co-delivered a lecture about Unit testing titled "How to benefit from unit testing in the real world" at the monthly gathering of the .NET Software Architects User Group. I'd like to thank Doron that presented the 2nd part of our lecture and give thank to an esteemed member of our development team - … Continue reading Presentation from .NET Software Architects User Group
Use measureIt to find out how much time it really takes
I've been interested in performance optimization from the first application I wrote and since than I been finding new ways to make my code run faster with less memory usage. Over the time I found that after discovering the existing bottlenecks in the code knowing which command takes more time to execute is always an … Continue reading Use measureIt to find out how much time it really takes
TestDriven.NET 2.19 Released
There are some development tools that after a while I can’t understand how could I work without them. One of those tools that I’ve been using since I’ve staed software development in C#/VB is TestDriven.NET. For those of you that never heard of TestDriven it brings integration of several 3rd party tools to Visual Studio, … Continue reading TestDriven.NET 2.19 Released
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