I'm finally implementing some SOA stuff with loosely coupled endpoints.  I'm using NUnit to test all of my endpoints before I string them all together.  I'm sitting here wondering not if I'm faster at developing this application test-first, but if I'd really be able to develop it at all without unit testing.  How would I test any of my Web Services?  I guess I could use the built in asmx/html front ends, but that would be almost impossible for what I'm doing which involves fairly complex request documents, plus all that gives me is XML, and my brain is not a validating parser.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that you are like me and  thinking “I should look into this SOA stuff”, do yourself a favor and go here and read all about test-driven development.

Just my $ 0.02. 

Oh.  And while I'm typing I should mention that I'd support a movement to force all keyboard manufacturers to include the ¢ sign on a key so that I can type “Just my 2¢”  Like what the hell is the ` character for, anyway.  I think I remember using it for some strange c programming task, but that was years ago.  Or how about the ScrLk key. Does anyone use that thing?  At least they could put the ¢ sign below it.  Geesh throw us a bone.