Update: this blog is no longer active. For new posts and RSS subscriptions, please go to http://saintgimp.org . About a year and a half ago, shortly after I discovered Scrum, TDD, dependency injection, mocking frameworks, design patterns, and many...

Update: this blog is no longer active. For new posts and RSS subscriptions, please go to http://saintgimp.org . Well, hmmm. In case anyone missed the news last week, Microsoft had its first-ever big layoff . Unfortunately, I was caught in the landslide...

Update: this blog is no longer active. For new posts and RSS subscriptions, please go to http://saintgimp.org . A few people have asked me for more details on the specification extension methods we use to make our BDD tests more readable. As I mentioned...

Update: this blog is no longer active. For new posts and RSS subscriptions, please go to http://saintgimp.org . Exceptions cause problems with BDD-style tests in the MSTest environment. The MSTest [ExpectedException] doesn’t work well in this...

Update: this blog is no longer active. For new posts and RSS subscriptions, please go to http://saintgimp.org . In my previous post I mentioned that I was writing BDD-style unit tests in the standard MSTest environment that’s part of Visual Studio...

Update: this blog is no longer active. For new posts and RSS subscriptions, please go to http://saintgimp.org . There’s a great quote from Refactoring: Improving the Design Of Existing Code: “Any fool can write code that a computer...

Update: this blog is no longer active. For new posts and RSS subscriptions, please go to http://saintgimp.org . If you want to attend the Alt.NET Seattle 2009 Conference , better hurry up and register. Only 29 seats left as of this writing!

Update: this blog is no longer active. For new posts and RSS subscriptions, please go to http://saintgimp.org . Before I get into technical subjects, I should briefly outline the context in which I do my work. Microsoft Game Studios publishes games...