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  • Application Security series finished

    Craig McMurtry has finished his extensive series of articles (I started trying to keep track back here , but he quit blogging for 4 months), focusing mainly on Active Directory and application security using Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM) and Authorization Manager (AzMan). Here are links to...

  • Selecting an Agile Process

    Mike Cohn, author of User Stories Applied (which has been getting great reviews on Amazon, by the way), has an excellent presentation on Selecting an Agile Process: Comparing the Leading Alternatives (PDF, 837k). It is the slide deck from a half-day tutorial he does that includes overviews of the main...

  • The Golden User Rule

    It should be a well-known fact that user involvement is one of the most important factors in a successful software development project. If you get the wrong user, like someone who is not representative of the real end users, then you get the wrong system. This was summed up nicely on a web page I recently...

  • Bibliographical Gem

    A bibliographical gem is an interesting book hidden in another book’s bibliography. Reading bibliographies is a sure sign of a geek, and the fact that I am posting something found in one kind of proves my guilt! Oh well, I have other things to worry about. In the surprisingly long bibliography...

  • Now reading...

    Thanks to Jim Newkirk ’s glowing recommendation , I have started reading Agile Project Management by Jim Highsmith.

  • Help! What should I read next?

    I need some help here. I’m considering a couple of books to read after finally finishing Object Thinking (review in process). Which of the following books should I read next? Agile Project Management by Jim Highsmith Managing the Professional Services Firm by David Maister Beyond Software Architecture...

  • Mixing Forms and Windows Authentication

    Craig Andera , over on PluralSight blogs (it has a main feed now!), has a post showing how he integrated Windows and Forms Authentication for the same web application. From his post : “The trick was realizing that if you enable both “anonymous” and “integrated” authentication...

  • Take a survey and win $100 from Amazon

    Wintellect , one of WeProgam.NET ’s sponsors, is in the process of conducting some research about the Wintellect brand and are hoping you can help. If you are a developer, take the quick survey, which should not take more than 4 minutes to complete, at http://www.wintellect.com/survey/ . They are...

  • FileAssert updated

    Thanks to Roy ’s suggestion, I added an overload to the FileAssert class that takes the filename as a string (well actually two, since there is always a method that takes the error message to be displayed as a string). This avoids you having to create FileInfo or FileStream objects if you already...

  • TDD with a database - one good solution

    If you are doing TDD with a database, you owe it to yourself to check out Roy’s innovative use of Enterprise Services to make database testing easier. The first post explains a few ways to use his method, and the second post shows when not to use it. Very valuable stuff. Database Unit Testing issues...

  • FileAssert - comparing 2 binary files using NUnit

    At the beginning of this month I blogged about the Code of the Month . For July the program we are looking at is NUnit . As part of the code reading, I wrote an extension (sort of) that compares two files to determine if they are equal. The code uses NUnit internally, calling Assert.Fail if the files...

  • Adding tests and refactoring non-TDD code

    Lately I’ve been adding unit tests around a critical subsystem of the application I am working on. Luckily I had some downtime to add unit tests to cover parts of the subsystem that I did not develop (of course with TDD all of my new code was covered!). Here are some tips I’ve learned in...

  • What's the best drunk code you've ever written?

    Steve Hebert and I came up with this “Friday question”: What's the best piece of code you've written drunk, on medication, etc.? Best here can be loosely defined as good, humorous, obfuscated, commented, etc. Mine was written under a Sudafed -induced state. Sometimes my allergies bother me...

  • 10 ways to make your code more testable

    Justin Gehtland has a good article on 10 ways to make your code more testable over on TheServerSide.NET , although I am not a big fan of mocking out the database as he does. I think mock objects should be reserved for things your application needs to interact with that are out of the application’s...

  • OT: Adventures in moving

    You know who your real friends are when they move you a second time within a year. They know how much crap you have and remember how hot it was last year about this time when they were stuck helping you move. I learned many things during the move. I found out that UHaul can take a reservation, but they...
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