August 2008 - Posts

Computer Programming isn't Art
25 August 08 01:24 PM | Avi Pilosof | 6 Comments   

(Sorry, Mr Knuth ) My uncle's hobby is building beautiful furniture from wood. I noticed something last time I spoke with him about it: He doesn't talk about a table, or a book case, or a dresser; at least, that's not what he talks about with emotion. Read More...

Back in Seattle
18 August 08 02:19 PM | Avi Pilosof | 0 Comments   

I recently came back from visiting Seattle (where I'd lived and worked for 7 years before returning to Sydney). My wife was presenting at TechReady, so I figured I'd hitch a ride and make a vacation of it. It was also a good opportunity to meet up with Read More...

Getting Code Coverage to Work in Visual Studio
18 August 08 01:49 PM | Avi Pilosof | 1 Comments   

Are you sick of seeing this error?: "Code coverage is not enabled for this test run" I was working on a project where my COV results were always giving the above error, and it took some figuring out. Basically, it came down to two things: I had the following Read More...

Filed under: visual studio

Creating Testable Applications Using the MVP Pattern
03 August 08 05:23 AM | Avi Pilosof | 1 Comments   

(The following post talks about ASP.NET, but it actually applies to all UI-based applications, web and non-web. PHP, WPF, Winforms, etc. It does not require a framework, nor anything to install - it's just an interesting way to write your code such that Read More...

Filed under: architecture, mvp, asp.net