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  • Check out Virtual ALT.NET

    Several months ago a few people started hosting a Virtual ALT.NET meeting right here on the information super highway. I've been to a few and they're always packed with information and good conversation. It's a great way to learn new things or show off cool stuff you've been working on...
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  • MSpec... for Boo!

    Jeffery Olson (a fellow Eleutian guy) has put in some good effort to create a very readable, very clean MSpec DSL for Boo. You should give it a gander .
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  • TeamCity.CodeBetter.com now has git support!

    Just wanted to post quickly to let everyone know that I just finished adding git support to TeamCity.CodeBetter.com , so if you've got an OSS project on git (and if it isn't, you should consider moving it ) you've been dying to get continuous integration going, please apply to have us host...
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  • Hosting your OSS project on github

    Maybe you've heard me or others blather on about how great git is and how great github is to host git projects. Maybe you've heard it enough that you want to give it a shot or at least see what is involved in it and why us crazies think it's so great. I'll attempt to describe how one...
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  • Machine.Specifications (MSpec) has moved (and git rocks)

    EDIT:The actual clone url is here, the original link is to the github page. Sorry for the confusion: git clone git://github.com/machine/machine.specifications.git I just completed breaking Machine.Specifications into its own repository. It is now here: http://github.com/machine/machine.specifications...
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  • The ALT.NET Programming Contest

    Several months ago, Justin Wilcox introduced me to the idea of a live programming contest. The basic idea is that you get a bunch of programmers together, form teams of two if you wish, and set them off to write a bot for some sort of game (think Rock, Paper, Scissors) with the ultimate goal of them...
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  • Rapid UI Mockups with Balsamiq

    I recently came across Balsamiq , a very well done application for quickly mocking up UI prototypes. With simple drag and drops you can quickly create some pretty slick prototypes. The prototypes have a sketch like look which allows the viewer to use more of their imagination, something I think is a...
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  • Machine has moved

    Assembla was annoying us for a variety of reasons so we moved Machine to github . git clone git://github.com/machine/machine.git The astute may notice a few other repositories in the machine account... Jacob's been busy. We'll announce those projects in due time...
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  • How ThoughtWorks Studios annoys me (and likely its other customers)

    The ThoughtWorks Studios forums are a usability and customer experience debacle. When you post something, it won't show up until it's "approved". This could take a few days or could never happen. It seems that they'll occasionally forget to "approve" posts entirely and...

  • Getting ReSharper and VS to play nice with MSpec

    Does ReSharper want to make your specs look like this? But you want your specs to look like this? Just follow these easy steps: Go to Resharper>Options Go to Languages>C#>Formatting Style>Other Uncheck Modifiers>Use explicit private modifier Uncheck Other>Indent anonymous method body...
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  • BDD – Consider your audience

    Unlike vanilla TDD, the artifacts produced by BDD can and should be read by more than just developers. Most of us who practice TDD name our tests more or less like this: MessageBoardControllerTests.Index_WithTenMessages_ReturnsFiveMostRecentFromRepository() Shifting into Context/Specification style testing...
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  • Udi Dahan’s SOA Bootcamp

    Jacob and I just got back from Austin, TX where we were fortunate enough to attend the week long, lengthily titled Advanced Distributed Systems Design using SOA & DDD with Udi Dahan, The Software Simplist . Awesome. Just awesome. We’d been meaning to delve into messaging at Eleutian after multiple...
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  • Want to do cool things with ASP.NET MVC?

    Steve Sanderson is apparently writing two Apress books on ASP.NET MVC . While doing so, he’s been digging deep into the framework and inventing/discovering some pretty amazing things. My favorites thus far are: Partial Requests in ASP.NET MVC Partial Output Caching in ASP.NET MVC I’m yet to use it seriously...
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  • MSpec v0.2

    EDIT: Machine, including MSpec are now hosted on github: http://github.com/machine/machine It's been a while, but we've gotten several new things into Machine.Specifications (MSpec). I'm excited to finally release them for everyone to start playing with. Don't know what MSpec is? Please...

  • Don't take RY (Repeat Yourself) in specs too far

    Mikel Lindsaar recently posted a tip encouraging rSpec users to not use before :each, and set up the context in every "it" specification. I'm afraid I disagree. By pushing context setup into your specifications, you're allowing your contexts to become artificial and anemic and your...
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