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Consider voting for my Birds of a Feather session at Tech Ed - level 100

I have submitted two BoF sessions for consideration. These two subjects are ones I deal with ona day-to-day basis. If you are going to Tech Ed and are interested in these topics, go to https://www.msteched.com/cfp/bofvoting.aspx and vote. Voting closes on Friday! Executable requirements with FIT and...

Published 03-30-2006 9:44 AM by Jeffrey Palermo

Filed under: Developer Community
Juice is an open source podcast downloader - level 100

Blake Caraway made me aware of this cool program. Juice is a podcast downloader and manager. Install this small program and subscribe to your podcast feeds. Juice will automatically take care of updating these feeds and sucking down the new podcasts. Once set up, all you have to do is copy the files...

Published 03-28-2006 10:32 PM by Jeffrey Palermo

Filed under: Tips & Tricks
Rocky gets it all wrong about Test-Driven Development (TDD) - level 200

I'm listening to the latest .Net Rocks show with Rocky Lhotka , and I'm saddened that he gets it so wrong about TDD. DNR's last episode ROCKED with Jean Paul Boodhoo , who talked about TDD and other Agile concepts. Jean Paul is a practitioner of TDD, as am I, and he explained the process and its benefits...

Published 03-28-2006 9:30 PM by Jeffrey Palermo

Filed under: Developer Community, Agile
Keep Virtual PC from hogging your computer while installing Windows Vista ctp - level 200

I'm installing the CTP of Vista on a Virtual PC to check it out, but the install is going to take a while, and I don't want VirtualPC to hog my CPU while I work (no dual core proc for me yet). I have plenty of RAM, so that's not an issue, so my CPU is the bottleneck in computer speed. I found a simple...

Published 03-24-2006 8:10 AM by Jeffrey Palermo

Filed under: Tips & Tricks
Blake Caraway defines "Team Smells" - level 100

We all know about code smells, but Blake Caraway is defining some team smells . Great post!

Published 03-23-2006 10:17 AM by Jeffrey Palermo

Filed under: Coding Principles, Tips & Tricks
Web service versioning for dummies - level 200

This post is aimed at providing a good way to version web services. Note that there are many ways to do this, and this is just one way. When versioning a service, it's important to be able to run multiple versions side by side. When you upgrade the web service for one client, you can't immediately take...

Published 03-21-2006 9:37 AM by Jeffrey Palermo

Filed under: Services, Coding Principles
Integrate FitNesse tests with CruiseControl.Net - level 400

On my team, we have FitNesse tests surrounding our system. We've integrated them into our cruise build as well. We developed custom Xsl sheets so that the cruise build report includes fitnesse information. We even have our regression FitNesse suite fail the build if any FIT tests fail. When this happens...

Published 03-14-2006 9:22 AM by Jeffrey Palermo

Filed under: FIT
Using enum strings with NHibernate persistence - level 400

One of the things that is not very obvious when using NHibernate is how to using Enumerations. If you merely map an enum with the hbm.xml, NHibernate will persist that class member as an int, which is the underlying type of an Enum value type. Even if you have your database table configured with a string...

Published 03-14-2006 9:00 AM by Jeffrey Palermo

Filed under: Data Access, Agile, Coding Principles
INETA speaker Miguel Castro at ADNUG tonight - level 000

Miguel Castro will be talking about custom web controls tonight at the Austin .Net User Group. If you've heard his .Net Rocks show or watched his DNR TV episode1 and episode2 , you know that it'll be a great talk for those wanted to create their own custom controls. Miguel came into town (Austin, TX...

Published 03-13-2006 7:46 AM by Jeffrey Palermo

Filed under: Developer Community
EVERY application has a natural domain model - level 200

I'm in the camp that loves OO. I want smart objects for everything. I don't like data-centric programming. I don't like thowing raw data around in DataSets. I create custom objects for everything in my applications. I was reflecting on a very simple application, and I realized that every application...

Published 03-11-2006 2:35 AM by Jeffrey Palermo

Filed under: Coding Principles
How VirtualPathUtility combines paths in .Net 2.0 - level 100

This is a warning that the VirtualPathUtility class in .Net 2.0 takes some time to understand the rules under which it operates. It wasn't obvious to me, and I had to do some investigation to learn it's behavior. I expected the following test to pass. It didn't. [Test] public void ShouldCombineTwoWebsitePaths...

Published 03-10-2006 10:44 PM by Jeffrey Palermo

Filed under: ASP.NET, Coding Principles
Hiding errors is evil - level 200

Hiding errors: Swallowing informative excpetions Returning a magic value instead of the error Ignoring errors I'm sure many can relate this this experience: I'm using an application or a programming API. The code runs and returns. I move on. I find out later that the code failed, and the work was never...

Published 03-09-2006 8:47 AM by Jeffrey Palermo

Filed under: Coding Principles
SOA has not lived up to it's hype - level 200

A quick google search will reveal a raging debate on the merits of SOA. It has cooled down a bit from 2005 where every time I turned around, there was another session at Tech Ed on SOA. The talk about SOA has just started if its landscape is going to be anything like the adoption landscape for OOP. SOA...

Published 03-09-2006 8:02 AM by Jeffrey Palermo

Filed under: Services
Austin MSDN Code Camp was a huge success - level 000

This past Saturday, March 4, my user group, ADNUG , hosted its first MSDN Code Camp. We had some cool sponsors including Microsoft , St. Edward's Professional Education Center , Wrox Press , 101X radio station , CyberJocks , and Catapult Systems . We had 17 unique sessions from local developers on tracks...

Published 03-08-2006 10:02 AM by Jeffrey Palermo

Filed under: Developer Community
Oracle-style joins in Sql server. There is no performance difference - level 300

I recently came across some sql code that caught me off guard. Here is is: select something from table1, table2 where table1.id = table2.id I immediately thought that a Cartesian product was happening and the rows were being filtered afterward. All my database experience has been with Microsoft databases...

Published 03-02-2006 7:47 AM by Jeffrey Palermo

Filed under: Data Access

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Consider voting for my Birds of a Feather session at Tech Ed - level 100

Juice is an open source podcast downloader - level 100

Rocky gets it all wrong about Test-Driven Development (TDD) - level 200

Keep Virtual PC from hogging your computer while installing Windows Vista ctp - level 200

Blake Caraway defines "Team Smells" - level 100

Web service versioning for dummies - level 200

Integrate FitNesse tests with CruiseControl.Net - level 400

Using enum strings with NHibernate persistence - level 400

INETA speaker Miguel Castro at ADNUG tonight - level 000

EVERY application has a natural domain model - level 200

How VirtualPathUtility combines paths in .Net 2.0 - level 100

Hiding errors is evil - level 200

SOA has not lived up to it's hype - level 200

Austin MSDN Code Camp was a huge success - level 000

Oracle-style joins in Sql server. There is no performance difference - level 300