Monthly Archives: April 2007

Remembering how to use Oracle

Posted on April 30, 2007 by Jeremy Miller

I’m using Oracle for the first time in about 3 years starting today.  I thought it would be like coming home because I grew up on Oracle 7.34 and then on to Oracle 8.1.7.  I know I routinely bash the … Continue reading →

Posted in Database and Persistence | 3 Comments

Jeremy’s Fourth Law of Test Driven Development: Keep Your Tail Short

Posted on April 27, 2007 by Jeremy Miller

One of the first ongoing lesson for making Test Driven Development succeed for you is to learn how to write isolated tests with less effort.  My Fourth Law of TDD is all about recognizing the need to do testing piecewise … Continue reading →

Posted in Maintainability, Test Driven Development | 9 Comments

Get a Build Server and Keep it Clean

Posted on April 26, 2007 by Jeremy Miller

The importance of a clean build server was reinforced for me this morning.  We’re getting ready to wrap up our first demonstration of our executable for users in a different timezone in London.  Everything is wonderful on our developer workstations, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Continuous Integration | 12 Comments

Today’s deep thought

Posted on April 23, 2007 by Jeremy Miller

In the absence of any other compelling knowledge, take the message of an exception at face value.  Don’t make up elaborate reasons in your own mind.  If it says the .Net 2.0 SDK isn’t installed, just go install it.  Doh. Also … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments

Jamie Cansdale is my hero

Posted on April 18, 2007 by Jeremy Miller

I've had a minor epiphany in the last week or so.  For some boneheaded reason I never caught onto TestDriven.Net's "Repeat Test Run" feature until I saw somebody mention it on a comment to Ayende's post.  I promptly went into … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 5 Comments

Self Organizing Teams are Superior to Command n’ Control Teams

Posted on April 17, 2007 by Jeremy Miller

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about self-organized teams versus teams that are run in a command and control manner.  My experience and observation is that self organized teams blow the doors off of teams that are tightly controlled by … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 17 Comments

A Train of Thought

Posted on April 17, 2007 by Jeremy Miller

I'm two weeks into a new project in midtown Manhattan, and I'm using the train rides to do side project things.  Coming home this evening there are a couple things I'm thinking about, so here's a Bare Naked Ladies-style stream of … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 3 Comments

My Crackpot Idea for WinForms Development

Posted on April 17, 2007 by Jeremy Miller

Automated testing, especially at an acceptance level, can be a bear with WinForms applications.  On my last project we effectively abandoned integrated FIT testing against the UI.  We tried to go down a path of writing Window Driver‘s against each big control, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 15 Comments

Bloom’s Taxonomy and Design Patterns

Posted on April 15, 2007 by Jeremy Miller

Warning!  Pedantry and self-indulgence ahead! I'm a big fan of design patterns and I feel that they are an almost mandatory subject of study for all serious developers.  I think I'm going to make the "You really should learn design patterns" … Continue reading →

Posted in Design Patterns | 9 Comments

StructureMap.DataAccess

Posted on April 15, 2007 by Jeremy Miller

I forgot to mention it, but there is a new component being shipped with StructureMap called StructureMap.DataAccess.  It's just a little helper component that wraps common ADO.Net manipulation I use when I need traditional DAL functionality (think opening and closing connections, try/catch, … Continue reading →

Posted in StoryTeller, StructureMap | 2 Comments