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• Richmond Code Camp 3

  I have to blog more often. Richmond Code Camp 3 When: Saturday, April 28 8:30 AM to 6:00 PM Where: ECPI Innsbrook Campus ( map ) Cost: FREE! Lunch provided! What: Code Camp is by developers, and for developers...it's an idea that started in the Eastern... Posted Feb 06 2007, 12:55 PM by darrell with | with no comments Filed under: WPF, .NET, Agile, TDD, code camp, WCF, SQL Server, Windows

• NCover v1.3.3 released

  NCoverExplorer v1.3.3 released . Jamie Cansdale added a ridiculous number of new features. Great job, Jamie! Posted Apr 18 2006, 05:07 PM by darrell with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: .NET, Agile

• Yahoo! posts Design Pattern Library

  Yahoo! has posted a nice Design Pattern Library : Welcome to the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library. We are very happy to be sharing our library with the design and development community. This is our first drop of what we hope to be a monthly release cycle... Posted Mar 14 2006, 06:41 AM by darrell with | with no comments Filed under: .NET, Agile

• GoF Patterns DSL for Team System 2005

  Clipcode has released a GoF Domain Specific Language built using Microsoft's DSL tools for Visual Studio 2005. The currently available snapshot build of Clipcode-GoF-DSL supports the GoF creational patterns (prototype, singleton, builder, abstract factory... Posted Mar 13 2006, 06:31 AM by darrell with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: .NET, Agile

• Dynamic languages work closer to how you design software

  Some people I talk to have struggled with the usefulness of a dynamic language such as IronPython. To understand why dynamic languages are faster to develop in, let's take a look at how developers design. Robert Glass, in his article The Cognitive View... Posted Jun 23 2005, 10:47 AM by darrell with | with 20 comment(s) Filed under: .NET, Agile, Python

• Head First Design Patterns book now has C# code samples available

  Mark McFadden has made the excellent Head First Design Patterns book's code samples available in C# here . He even uses NUnit instead of Console.Writelines. Great job, Mark! Posted May 18 2005, 09:00 AM by darrell with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: .NET, Agile

• Where does unit testing fail?

  From an old ADT interview, Mike Gunderloy is asking the questions and Mike Clark is answering. (Mike Gunderloy) Q : Now that we've got some reasonable experience with unit testing, where do you think it fails? (Mike Clark) A : I think unit testing fails... Posted May 04 2005, 12:40 PM by darrell with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: .NET, Agile

• TechEd 2005: Moderating the "TDD is Design" BOF

  It's official. Since Scott Bellware can't make it to TechEd , I'm going to be moderating his "Test-Driven Development is Design" BOF on Tuesday, June 7 at 6:30 PM. Posted Apr 28 2005, 06:44 AM by darrell with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: .NET, Agile