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April 2008 - Posts

UPSERT in SQL server 2008

I recently read this article on upsert functionality in SQL server 2008 . I thought that the SQL server team finally had come to theri senses and added functionality similar to replace in MySQL , something that have been available in MySQL for ages. But Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 29, 2008 8:04 AM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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Robot competitions

Even though I never played crobots , I have always been intrigued by the idea. I even played RoboForge for a few months a couple of years ago. And today I stumbled across a new robot game; RoboChamps . RoboChamps does not seem to be like all other classical Read More...
Posted Monday, April 28, 2008 8:13 AM by cellfish | 1 Comments
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Yet another unit test framework for .Net released

Version 1.0 of xUnit.net has been released . So do we need another unit test framework? And I think the answer is yes . There are a number of things that I've found a little bit weird in NUnit and with xUnit.net they have been removed. I definitely think Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 24, 2008 8:09 AM by cellfish | 1 Comments
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Fixed prices for IT projects are unethical

Fun to see more and more people say this . In a typical development project there are three variables to play with; you can deliver at a certain date, with a certain level of quality or a with a certain number of features. You can guarantee two of these Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 23, 2008 3:37 PM by cellfish | 1 Comments
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Mocks are not Stubs

As many before me I was recently looking at different mocking frameworks in order to find one that suited my needs, and was written in C++. And there are not many alternatives out there if you're using C++. I've found one open source and two internal Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 22, 2008 8:24 AM by cellfish | 2 Comments
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Why open source doesn't do it for me

An alternative title could have been "why unsponsored open source never work" but since sponsored open source sometimes don't work very well either, I didn't want to exclude sponsored open source from this post. Over the years I've had to work with a Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 15, 2008 9:37 AM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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Applying agile: where to start

In the last year or so, Scrum has become very popular and people are trying to apply it left and right. I don't know if it is Scrum but the number of projects that are trying to use agile methodology have exploded in the last one or two years. And there Read More...
Posted Sunday, April 13, 2008 7:58 AM by cellfish | 4 Comments
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MFC is not dead

When I wrote my master's thesis was the first time I came in to contact with VC++ and MFC. I worked with MFC and VC++ quite a lot for a number of years but the last four or five years have not had much MFC work in it. When the .Net framework came along Read More...
Posted Saturday, April 12, 2008 9:24 AM by cellfish | 6 Comments
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Selenium the test tool

I almost forgot that before the BDD/DDD presentation , there was a presentation about Selenium . I didn't forget it because it was a bad presentation but because the following presentation was so good... I've never had any good experiences with tools Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 09, 2008 8:39 PM by cellfish | 3 Comments

BDD and DDD

I've previously written about BDD (in Swedish) and maybe I should translate some of those articles since I've now decided to start writing in English. Anyhow, last night I had the chance to listen to Dan North on the topic: How does DDD and BDD relate Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 09, 2008 12:07 AM by cellfish | 1 Comments
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