How to run a software development company (INTO THE GROUND) - Part 4(trycatchfail.com)

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Introducing Dragon Management, the best way to insure that a software project will succeed and make you rich. Trogdor Approved! read more...

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The importance of testing(trycatchfail.com)

submitted by Matt_TCF(946) 3 years, 9 months ago

Testing is important. If you make a code change, be VERY sure you test it. If you absolutely positively can't write a unit test for it, be sure you do very, very thorough manual testing. Don't just fire-and-commit and assume it all works, because it probably doesn't. As far as I'm concerned, if you can't prove that it works, it doesn't work, end of story. read more...

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How to run a software development company (INTO THE GROUND) Part 3(trycatchfail.com)

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The third part in the series about how you, too, can successfully captain your software development ship and crash it into an iceberg, killing everyone on board! read more...

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Using LINQ to elegantly initialize arrays(trycatchfail.com)

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A quick snippet for initializing arrays of objects in a single line of code, no for loops! read more...

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Easy testing via ActiveRecord and SQLite(trycatchfail.com)

submitted by Matt_TCF(946) 3 years, 9 months ago

I have created a base test fixture and a simple utility class that keeps my real NUnit test fixtures very simple and free of ActiveRecord initialize and cleanup code, and it uses an in-memory database so there's no dependency on an external database. read more...

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Using LINQ with ActiveRecord(trycatchfail.com)

submitted by Matt_TCF(946) 3 years, 9 months ago

I'm a huge fan of ActiveRecord (and of all things Castle), but I like the fact that LINQ makes it very easy to do ad-hoc queries with a compile-time safety net. If you follow the steps below, you can build your own LINQ provider for ActiveRecord and get the syntactical sugar of language-integrated query with the simplicity of ActiveRecord. read more...

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How to run a software development company (INTO THE GROUND)(trycatchfail.com)

submitted by Matt_TCF(946) 3 years, 9 months ago

The series will cover the things you *shouldn't* do if you hold some sort of managerial stake in a software project. Sadly these tales will be from my own personal experience working for companies that have drifted into disarray. These examples will be embellished somewhat to drive the points home, but by and large, everything you will read in these posts will be true. read more...

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Essential Development "Tools"(trycatchfail.com)

submitted by Matt_TCF(946) 3 years, 9 months ago

While new workstations are great, setting them up and getting them to feel "right" is a challenge. I've found that to perform at my peak, I need some essential tools, utilities, and other misc. items. Some of these are not free, but I've found their cost to be way, way more than justified by how much effort they save me. read more...

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Unit testing complex ASP.NET MVC controllers with Moq(trycatchfail.com)

submitted by Matt_TCF(946) 3 years, 9 months ago

One of the advantages of the new ASP.NET MVC framework is improved testability. Testing simple controllers is as simple as testing any other class. Once you start accessing HttpContext-related things though (such as the request, response, etc), things become much more tricky. read more...

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