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I absolutely love software development. And what I love the most in software development is it’s creative aspect. I believe there is not one developer in the world who hasn’t yet experienced, at least once, an “eureka” moment. You know, those insights
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As a consultant part of my job is to provide guidance to our customers on the best way to use our technology, namely in terms of application development practices. Over time, you start to better understand the type of customer you’re working with, what
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The Patterns & Practices team is finally going to update their fantastic Application Architecture Guide . Since it’s release in 2002 this guide has been a favorite of mine. It’s somewhat dated but it contains sound design principles that stand the test
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Ever wondered how to configure a connection string using the Data Link properties dialog? Well, I have. And just last night I decided to check out exactly how to do this. Here's a simple list with all the required steps: Add a reference to "Microsoft
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Usually one of the major difficulties a developer faces when writing unit tests is how to write test code for User Interfaces. This is particularly important when we're doing Test-Driven Development.
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Previously I mentioned that one of the most important benefits I get from using TDD is that it drives me to write more testable code. I've been thinking quite a lot about this, and another recent post from Chris Dickens made we even more aware of the
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Matt Hawley posted a few numbers in order to justify/support the adoption of TDD. I've found an interesting research paper on the subject, from Matthias Müller and Frank Padberg from the Karlsruhe University in Germany. Some of my personal views on the
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Lately, I've been looking closely at build tools and, namely MSBuild and NAnt, so I stumbled upon this post from Don Box. After some digging I came across the following thread where an MSBuild and NAnt integration/interop scenario seems to be in the scope
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