Interview w/author of "IronRuby Unleashed", Shay Friedman(ironlanguages.net)

submitted by just3ws(560) 1 year, 10 months ago

Shay "IronShay" Friedman sat down with the crew from IronLanguages.net for a chat on IronRuby, his new book and why C# developers should take a look at what's going on in Ruby. read more...

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Fast Add Reference Dialog for VS 2010(devlicio.us)

submitted by tehlike(1000) 2 years, 11 months ago

I have spent a couple of days on implementing a fast add reference dialog box for Visual Studio. The time of adding a reference has been a great time to have some coffee, to have lunch, or even a way to save economy (remember, developer time costs money!). read more...

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NBuilder website launched - Rapid generation of test objects for .NET(nbuilder.org)

submitted by garethdown44(45) 2 years, 11 months ago

NBuilder now has a website which will serve as the home for all its documentation. http://nbuilder.org About NBuilder - Through a fluent, extensible interface, NBuilder allows you to rapidly create test data, automatically assigning values to properties and public fields that are of type of the built in .NET data types (e.g. ints and strings). NBuilder allows you to override for properties you are interested in using lambda expressions. Example usage: Builder<Product> .CreateListOfSize(10) .WhereTheFirst(2) .Have(x => x.Title = "special title") .And(x => x.Price = 15.24m) .Build(); NBuilder is an open source project, hosted on google code. read more...

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Getting Started With Selenium For ASP.NET Developers(iamnotmyself.com)

submitted by NotMyself(215) 2 years, 11 months ago

During the Olympia Software Craftsmanship Workshop last weekend, Jeff Olsen (@olsonjeffery) demonstrated the use of the web testing framework Selenium. I was really impressed with the Selenium IDE and how easy it was to use in Firefox. One of the menu items of the IDE is to export a test as C#. I wanted to find out exactly what it takes for a .NET developer to get started using Selenium. This post is intended to help others get started. read more...

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Announcing the Olympia Software Craftsmanship Workshop(elegantcode.com)

submitted by NotMyself(215) 3 years ago

You’re at work and you catch yourself writing another 100 line method that you can’t test and really can’t even understand. You scour the internet for ideas but there are so many ideas. Some say don’t test, others says don’t test anything, still others say test every keystroke! You just let your head drop to your desk with a solid thud. You think to yourself, “Is this really the best I can do?” read more...

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How To Be Awesome: Enforcing ToDos With Specification Tests(iamnotmyself.com)

submitted by NotMyself(215) 3 years, 1 month ago

Using specification tests to document bugs in the system and flag hacks in the code to get around the bugs. The hope being that when the bug is fixed, a test will fail and you know where to go to remove all your nasty hacks. read more...

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Alt.Net Podcast Episode 17: The State of Alt.Net(altnetpodcast.com)

submitted by javery(5523) 3 years, 2 months ago

Mike Moore talks with Scott Bellware about the state of Alt.Net read more...

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ALT.NET Podcast 14: Object Databases(altnetpodcast.com)

submitted by powerrush(3873) 3 years, 4 months ago

Rob Conery and James Avery discuss object databases. read more...

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A Challenge to the VB.Net Community at Large on OSS(codebetter.com)

submitted by AlexCuse(325) 3 years, 4 months ago

Title pretty much says it... read more...

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ALT.NET Seattle 2009 is Happening(codebetter.com)

submitted by NotMyself(215) 3 years, 4 months ago

If you attended ALT.NET Seattle least year, you might be wondering whether or not it's happening this year. I am excited to announce that we are actually going to host an ALT.NET Seattle conference this year. What: ALT.NET Seattle 2009. (The site is still being worked on. Thanks to Justin Bonozier and Shoshanah Bain for getting the site up). Where: Digipen (thanks to Jeff Tucker for lining up the space) When: Evening February 27th through March 1st. Registration: Opens this tuesday evening at 6PM. We're holding on registration to allow the word to spread. There will be a max of 150 attendees. Check the wiki on Tuesday for details. read more...

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16 steps to write flexible business validation in C# using validation (dotnetfunda.com)

submitted by ARealTwit(130) 3 years, 7 months ago

Validation is one of the most important parts in any software project. Building flexible business validation is every one’s dream. Rather than writing frameworks from scratch to do these things, Microsoft validation blocks makes it a breeze. In this article we will discuss how validation application blocks help us to build flexible validations using validation application blocks. Its just a simple sixteen step process to put our business validation in action using validation blocks. read more...

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Dear Alt.Net Developers: Stop blaming Microsoft and WebForms for crea(blog.theaccidentalgeek.com)

submitted by mjeaton(724) 3 years, 8 months ago

I am responsible for every website I create. If I create a site or application that is unmaintainable or that has poorly formed HTML or doesn’t render well in all browsers, that is my fault. I chose my development tools/framework, or my employer, who I choose to work for, chose the development tools/framework. Either way, it is my responsibility, as a professional, to do my utmost to create the best possible application that is within my capability to create. read more...

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Top 10 Things That Annoy Programmers(kevinwilliampang.com)

submitted by kpanghmc(2055) 3 years, 8 months ago

Programmers all have their personal pet peeves. Whether it's scope creep, Hungarian notation, or smelly coworkers, there are certain nuisances that we must put up with in our line of work. The following is a list of the top 10 things that annoy programmers, compiled from the results of my recent question on StackOverflow along with some of my own experiences as a programmer: read more...

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Dear Asp.Net Developers: Stop Making Our Technology Look Bad(keithelder.net)

submitted by keithelder(450) 3 years, 8 months ago

Have you ever tried to use one browser and one browser only? This article outlines how impossible it can be even in 2008 to do. There are countless public facing Asp.Net web sites that require Internet Explorer. The perception and impact this has on the non Asp.Net community is something developers need to think about. It is an interesting read that provides a lot of insight into the problem and some ways to fix it. read more...

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No GoLive required to use ASP.NET MVC in production(codeclimber.net.nz)

submitted by simonech(10.1k) 3 years, 9 months ago

ASP.NET MVC EULA allows its usage in live operating environment, so it can be used in production read more...

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Convenience Kills, or the Case Against RAD Tools(kohari.org)

submitted by ang3lfir3(660) 3 years, 9 months ago

A rather heated discussion erupted last week on Twitter and IRC concerning so-called “drag-and-drop demos” — point-and-click demonstrations of “software development” that just involve dragging controls around on a graphical designer without a lot of actual coding involved. Being entirely unable to resist joining in on debates, I had to chime in and give my two cents. read more...

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