Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo

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• Score 1 For Eliminating your hands flight path

  For the last couple of weeks, I have been integrating Vim and a complementary set of tools into my development toolkit. I am firmly on board with what the pragmatic programmers say: "Learn a good editor, and learn it well!!" I am thoroughly... Posted Apr 14 2008, 09:59 PM by bitwisejp with | with 10 comment(s) Filed under: Programming, Tools

• BDD Test Naming Macro - Speed Update

  Ever since I received the BDD test naming macro from Scott Bellware last year, it has gone through several iterations of improvements (mostly due to students taking the time to tune up the macro). Of all of the enhancements to the macro, none of them... Posted Apr 14 2008, 09:48 PM by bitwisejp with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Programming

• IMapper<Input,Output>

  Got some feedback on my MappingEnumerable post. People wanted to see me leveraging some of the new language features (specifically linq). I can leverage linq to change the extension method to eliminate the need for the MappingEnumerable (which was brought... Posted Dec 19 2007, 10:27 PM by bitwisejp with | with no comments Filed under: C#, Programming

• BDD Specification Base Class

  With a newfound interest in leveraging the AutoMockingContainer (credit to James for convincing me of this approach) here is the code for my base class used to write BDD style interaction based tests: public abstract class Specification { private MockRepository... Posted Dec 19 2007, 01:44 PM by bitwisejp with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: C#, Programming

• Nothin But .Net Store (Google Code) Breaking Change

  I just upgraded the project to a VS2008 project and am now starting to demonstrate (and will continue to do so in the new year) how to integrate some of the new language features. This means that if you don’t have .Net 3.5 installed on your machine... Posted Dec 19 2007, 01:21 PM by bitwisejp with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: C#, Programming

• MappingEnumerable<T>

  In my infrastructure layer of my projects I regularly include the following interface: public interface IMapper < Input, Output > { Output MapFrom(Input input); } This interface should be fairly self-explanatory, it takes in an item of type Input... Posted Dec 19 2007, 11:04 AM by bitwisejp with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: C#, Programming

• Getting started with BDD style Context/Specification base naming

  I have received a number of good responses from people who have a couple of aesthetic issues with the BDD style naming that I am starting to use. Let me clarify, I have been using the natural sentence style test naming since Scott introduced me to it... Posted Nov 29 2007, 10:36 AM by bitwisejp with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: Agile, Programming

• Setting The Record Straight - My Thoughts On The MVP Variants (for web applications)

  Having received a bunch of emails in the past couple of weeks from people who have been asking me questions with regards to Passive View/Supervising controller patterns for web applications. I needed to let people know that for the last couple of months... Posted Nov 28 2007, 11:59 PM by bitwisejp with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: .Net 2.0, Agile, C#, Programming

• Stop Reading - Start Doing

  I had to laugh when I read “ TDD Ain’t No Snowboarding from Alessandro Burrato . It is a direct counter to my TDD is Like Snowboarding post!! His experience of TDD is very different than the experience I documented based off of my experience... Posted Nov 21 2007, 01:30 AM by bitwisejp with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Agile, Programming

• Huge Code Drop Coming!!!!!!!

  A lot of people will probably say it is about time!! I am taking the source code that just got driven out from this last week of Nothin But .Net and I am going to make it publicly available from my blog. I am hoping to release it by the end of the week... Posted Nov 11 2007, 05:47 AM by bitwisejp with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: .Net 2.0, .Net 3.0, Agile, C#, Programming, Training

• The Static Gateway Pattern

  Now I am by no means claiming to be any sort of patterns naming authority, but after you see the same occurent pattern in your applications you often will try to formulate some sort of vocabulary among the team to express the concept that you see occurring... Posted Oct 15 2007, 06:50 AM by bitwisejp with | with 10 comment(s) Filed under: Featured, Patterns, Programming

• Start Flying With ReSharper (and windows in general) - Use the Alt-Key

  I received this question a couple of days ago that I thought I would quickly take the time to respond to a question: “At work over the past few weeks we’ve been watching your patterns talks on dnrTV. We’ve found them really enlightening... Posted Oct 12 2007, 09:53 AM by bitwisejp with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: General, Programming

• Drop the temporary lists and leverage yield

  I see lots of code bases throwing IList<T>, List<T> etc all over the place when half of the time all they really need is to return a set that can be either databound, or walked over and processed one at a time. For the scenarios where you... Posted Oct 10 2007, 09:15 AM by bitwisejp with | with 13 comment(s) Filed under: Programming

• Screen Bound DTO Update (Getting the terminology right)

  I am going to be posting a small sample that demonstrates what I was talking about in my post describing using Screen Bound DTO’s Presentation Model. In chatting with a couple of people, they correctly fixed my terminology to use lingo that most... Posted Sep 28 2007, 02:11 PM by bitwisejp with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Patterns, Programming

• Screen Bound DTO's (Presentation Model)

  Currently, in a lot of the projects that I work on I tend to take a top down approach to development. Which means that I will start at test that focus on the presentation layer of the application. Some people are curious as to this approach. My answer... Posted Sep 27 2007, 10:33 AM by bitwisejp with | with 16 comment(s) Filed under: Programming