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Guidelines for Test-Driven Development on MSDN removed after being revealed as incorrect - level 100

The article is removed now, but Microsoft's guidelines for TDD have been removed after more than 400 people rated it with the lowest ranking possible (a 1). It's good to see my primary software vendor listening to the community.

Published 11-23-2005 2:18 PM by Jeffrey Palermo
Visit the Code Camp wiki to find out what Code Camps are happening near you - level 100

Visit the Code Camp wiki to find out what Code Camps are happening near you. There are several resources on this site: Code Camp Schedules Contributors How to organize a code camp Code Camp Manifesto

Published 11-23-2005 9:22 AM by Jeffrey Palermo
Charlie Poole, lead developer of NUnit, had some interesting things to say - level 100

It's an old interview, but timeless tips. Roy Osherove interviews Charlie Poole , who is the lead deverloper of the NUnit testing framework. This was a very interesting interview. Some points that stood out in my mind were: The next version of NUnit will be 2.4 in order to skip 2.3 so that version collisions...

Published 11-23-2005 8:49 AM by Jeffrey Palermo
TDD topc on MSDN will be corrected - level 100

Rob Caron has stated that the Guidelines for Test-Driven Development posts on MSDN is erroneous and will be corrected and that Microsoft has no intention of "redefining" TDD. " We’re aware of the issue and are taking steps to rectify it. An error in a help topic is no different than a coding error –...

Published 11-23-2005 7:34 AM by Jeffrey Palermo
Vanpool to TDD workshop from Austin to Houston Nov 29th - level 100

We're having a vanpool from Austin to Houston on Nov 29th for the TDD workshop. We'll meet at 4:30 and leaving promptly at 5AM for Houston. We'll return around 9PM. Meet in the parking lot on the SW corner of 183 and Burnet. Here's a satellite picture of the area. http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=30.372135...

Published 11-22-2005 3:49 PM by Jeffrey Palermo
Quickly documenting public APIs using GhostDoc - level 200

Along with Resharper , the following class was created using a minimum number of keystrokes. Basically, I typed the names of the fields, and shortcut the rest. Consider the following class that I might want to have Xml documentation for: public class Person { private string _firstName; private string...

Published 11-22-2005 11:46 AM by Jeffrey Palermo
James Shore expertly describes TDD - level 200

James Shore's post about TDD is a must read.

Published 11-21-2005 1:51 PM by Jeffrey Palermo
Microsoft's guidance for unit testing actually describes integration testing - level 200

I commend Microsoft for putting a big emphasis on automated testing. This is a big step for the software industry as a whole to embrace automated testing. The hardware industry has already discovered this and has a built-in self-test in almost every device. Likewise, software should have built-in self...

Published 11-21-2005 8:12 AM by Jeffrey Palermo
How to create a jump-to-page feature to enhance the DataGrid pager - level 200

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When displaying information in a grid on an ASP.NET web page, it's often a good idea to page the information if there is a lot of it. For instance, if you have 10000 rows of information to potentially display, it's unreasonable to expect the user to wait to download all of it at one time and scroll forever. It's wasteful, too. Instead, page it in smaller chunks (10-50). Then let the user move to different pages of i...

Published 11-18-2005 8:02 AM by Jeffrey Palermo
Test-driven development panel at Innotech - level 000

At the Innotech conference , there was a TDD panel with Mary Poppendieck and 4 members of the local developer community (2 of them are my coworkers). Mary clarified that TDD is as old as software development itself. She relates that when she was coding assembly, she would create a testing framework to...

Published 11-17-2005 7:49 AM by Jeffrey Palermo
Attending, Innotech, a local Austin conference - level 000

This Wednesday, I attended the Innotech conference (no relation to Office Space), where I attended a session given by Mary Poppendieck , the author of Lean Software Development . She elaborated on some principal of making software development more lean. It starts with eliminating waste. At lunch, we...

Published 11-17-2005 7:29 AM by Jeffrey Palermo
Professional ASP.NET 2.0 book out from Wrox - level 000

I was recently a technical editor for two books for Wrox press. One of them was Professional ASP.NET 2.0. I editted the chapters written by Scott Hanselman . I was pleasantly suprised to find a dedicated credits page:

Published 11-17-2005 7:19 AM by Jeffrey Palermo
How to set up a productive working environment for Agile teams - level 200

In Agile Software Development , there is a strong focus on collaboration. Sending emails back and forth just doesn't cut it, and weekly meetings are enough. Offices and cubicles can often stifle communication because there are physical barriers in the way of communication. My team works in a single conference...

Published 11-11-2005 8:06 AM by Jeffrey Palermo
How to use NMock to assist with unit testing - level 300

When you unit test, it is important to mock dependencies. You can use static mocks (which are really just dummy classes that implement your interface) or dynamic mocks which can save code some of the time. NMock is one of the frameworks for dynamic mocks. They work by creating a class instance at runtime...

Published 11-04-2005 9:06 AM by Jeffrey Palermo
How to use SQL Server Express (where's the UI?) - level 200

If you are used to working with SQL Server 2000, you may expect to find a tool similar to Enterprise Manager and Query Analyzer. SQL Express is a free product, and it shows, but you get an awful lot for free. . . but you don't get it all. I think that's perfectly fine. I'd rather have something for free...

Published 11-04-2005 7:58 AM by Jeffrey Palermo

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Guidelines for Test-Driven Development on MSDN removed after being revealed as incorrect - level 100

Visit the Code Camp wiki to find out what Code Camps are happening near you - level 100

Charlie Poole, lead developer of NUnit, had some interesting things to say - level 100

TDD topc on MSDN will be corrected - level 100

Vanpool to TDD workshop from Austin to Houston Nov 29th - level 100

Quickly documenting public APIs using GhostDoc - level 200

James Shore expertly describes TDD - level 200

Microsoft's guidance for unit testing actually describes integration testing - level 200

How to create a jump-to-page feature to enhance the DataGrid pager - level 200

Test-driven development panel at Innotech - level 000

Attending, Innotech, a local Austin conference - level 000

Professional ASP.NET 2.0 book out from Wrox - level 000

How to set up a productive working environment for Agile teams - level 200

How to use NMock to assist with unit testing - level 300

How to use SQL Server Express (where's the UI?) - level 200