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The CodePlex Team and the patterns & practices Summit
The CodePlex team will be well represented again at the patterns & practices Summit in Redmond, WA - November 5-9, 2007 . We will be presenting or co-presenting the following sessions: "Yet Another Talk on Agility" - Brad Wilson and Peter Provost Read More...
Why you should not use Setup and Teardown in NUnit
I just posted my thoughts about Setup and Teardown at my new blog home. Click here . Read More...
Moving Day
I have decided for a number of reasons to move my blog to a new address. The new address is http://jamesnewkirk.typepad.com . For a few posts I will be cross-posting but about a month from now I will be at the new address exclusively. Please join me at Read More...
How to make sense of Code Coverage metrics
(co-authored with Brad Wilson ) Even since the release of Visual Studio Team System 2005 with easy to use code coverage tools, people inside (and outside) of Microsoft have been talking about what it means. The most common approach we've seen is for a Read More...
CodePlex is Hiring
Would you like to work on the CodePlex project? Now is your chance to participate in the further development of the website. The CodePlex team has an open web developer position. For details click here . Read More...
Pondering TDD in Microsoft .NET, Second Edition
I have been getting asked quite a bit lately about updating the Test-Driven Development book. A number of things have changed since the book was published. Among them is .NET 2.0 has shipped, Visual Studio Team System has an integrated unit testing tool, Read More...
ARC 206 - Evolving to Patterns at TechEd
I will be in Boston for TechEd in June to present a talk about design patterns and (IMO) how best to use them in your everyday development. In the past I have found design patterns talks less than inspiring. They tend to be just a presentation of a catalog. Read More...
New Job Opening in Community/Collaborative Development
Do you want to work on an Agile development team at Microsoft? Here's your chance. We are currently looking for a software development engineer to work on the premier collaborative software development platform for the .NET developer community. You will Read More...
PDC05 Sessions
I will be in Los Angeles next week (September 13-16, 2005). On Wednesday (September 14) and Thursday (September 15) I will be in the Product Pavilion at the GotDotNet station. I don't have specific times in which I will be there but if you let me know Read More...
NUnit Tests and Visual Studio 2005 Team System
In addition to GotDotNet workspaces V2 I have been busy on the testing front. A number of customers have started looking at the new testing tool in Visual Studio 2005 Team System. One of the first questions that comes to mind is what am I going to do Read More...
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