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Mighty Moose - Smart Continuous Unit Tests for .NET and Mono

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 09:28:28 GMT

Mighty Moose is a tool to help TDD practitioners to significantly reduce development friction and boost up their productivity. This commercial product is built on top of Autotest.NET, which is a cool, free and Open Source project of it's own.

Moncai - Cloud Computing Platform for .NET/Mono (Heroku-style)

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 09:27:28 GMT

Moncai - new Cloud Computing Platform for .NET/Mono might be coming to market in the first half of the next year. It's like Heroku for .NET

Release of Lokad.CQRS for Windows Azure: Framework and Guidance

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 13:10:10 GMT

Lokad.CQRS for Windows Azure is a an Open Source framework and guidance on efficiently building solutions for the cloud. It fits distributed and scalable enterprise scenarios as well as small and cost-effective solutions. The project is based upon the R&D effort of Lokad (winner of Windows Azure Partner Award 2010 by Microsoft) and is shared with the community in hope to make your .NET cloud development better!

Value of Windows Azure Platform Appliance for the start-ups and SaaS

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 05:38:15 GMT

Windows Azure Platform Appliance, revealed recently at WPC, allows large enterprises and governments to run their own Azure clouds. Yet, this offer also creates benefits for the start-ups and SaaS companies as well.

CouchDB - Document Persistence Powered by CQRS

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 08:36:12 GMT

CouchDB is a young document-oriented database that leans towards the web applications and is based on the CQRS principles. The latter gives it nice performance, distribution and scalability. Let's see how.

NServiceBus and Windows Azure Challenges

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:18:04 GMT

NServiceBus is going to target Windows Azure soon. What are the challenges ahead?

Inject Business Intelligence into .NET Software

Sun, 28 Mar 2010 08:39:29 GMT

Intelligent software brings and saves money. So let's learn about injecting some business intelligence into a simple .NET application.

DDDD, CQRS and Other Enterprise Development Buzz-words

Sun, 28 Mar 2010 08:38:39 GMT

Let's do a brief overview of DDDD, CQRS and other related buzz-words in the domain of enterprise development. I'll try to give a simplified explanation, highlight some logical relations and provide links for further reading.

Zen Development Practices: C# Maybe Monad

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:42:06 GMT

Maybe (of the monad fame) is a really simple construct in C# that had completely freed me from all cases of NullReferenceException in my code, while making it cleaner and more efficient...

Host .NET Applications on Rackspace Cloud Servers with Mono

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 07:02:04 GMT

Using Mono on virtual cloud server machines would allow us to run lightweight .NET application and data gateway servers (basically, your building blocks for smart enterprise applications) in a cost-effective and elastically scalable environment.

What is Virtual Machine - VM - Wiki?

Sat, 01 Aug 2009 03:46:13 GMT

n computer science a Virtual Machine (VM) is a software implementation of a hardware (or a part of it) that executes programs, applications and scripts just like the real machine would do. Here's the simplest example of Virtual Machine - Windows 7 running Windows XP in a VM to provide backwards compatibility for the older applications...

Zen Development Practices: Method-level IoC

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:12:09 GMT

One of the things I really like about the software development is the simple fact that having the right idea, tool (or even just a proper state of mind) could help you to avoid writing a lot of unnecessary code. As we all know, unnecessary code results in extra development friction and increased maintenance burden which come down to a higher TOC. This could scale from a few methods and up to the classes, micro-frameworks and even sub-systems.

CouchDB in the Cloud - Persisting From .NET Code

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 09:10:43 GMT

In the previous article we've talked about deploying CouchDB servers in the cloud and locally. Now it is time to outline a simple .NET adapter for communicating with these servers.

Testing MVC Elements and Interactions with Mock Container

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:08:36 GMT

Lokad Shared Libraries project includes implementation of the MockContainer that significantly simplifies testing of Model-View-Controller elements in separation. It does this by automatically generating and injecting mock objects, should the tested class ask for them in its constructor. These mock objects are persisted in the local container instance as singleton, so that additional expectations could be recorded against them. Expectations are verified when the container is disposed...

Cloud Bursting Scenario For Small Companies

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:21:04 GMT

Almost every software developer dreams about starting up his own MicroISV company that would keep bringing him money even during the sleep. Let's see how cloud computing can help us out here by making it easier to succeed.

What is Version Control System (VCS)? - Wiki

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:46:46 GMT

Version Control System (VCS) is a software that allows to manage changes of documents, programs, images and other information that is stored in form of computer files. Changes are usually identified by an incrementing number or letter code also known as revision number or revision. The simplest usage of versioning is - you can easily go back to the previous working version of your files, should you mess something up with the latest changes. Changes could range...

What is Agile Software Development? - Wiki

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:39:27 GMT

Agile Software Development is an iterative and incremental approach in software development, where requirements and solutions evolve through a tight collaboration of self-organizing cross-functional teams. Simply put, Agile Software Development is a group of software development methodologies that work...

What is Unit Testing? - Wiki

Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:44:26 GMT

Unit Testing in software development is a way to quickly verify that smallest blocks of software (units) behave as expected even as the software changes and evolves. Here's how it works. Any program could be logically separated into distinct units (in object-oriented programming the smallest unit usually being a class). Developers, while coding these program units...

What is Test-Driven Development (TDD)? - Wiki

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:39:55 GMT

Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a software design method that requires developers to create automated unit tests that define code requirements, before writing code itself. These unit tests contain...

What is Cloud Computing? - Wiki

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:01:43 GMT

Cloud computing is about hardware-based services (involving computing, network and storage capacities), where: Services are provided on-demand; customers can pay for them as they go, without the need to invest into a datacenter...

What is Continuous Integration - Wiki

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:16:34 GMT

Continuous Integration (CI) in software development is a set of practices and principles that speed up delivery of software projects and increase quality of their deliverables. Simply put, Continuous Integration takes a lot of mundane and boring things away from the process of software development, while letting developers to concentrate on more enjoyable and creative tasks...

Developing Component-Driven Applications powered by IoC

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:05:36 GMT

This article continues talk on the topic of Component-Driven Development with IoC Containers. We'll expand on the topic of the actual development process of new applications and migrating existing legacy applications...

Inversion of Control - IoC - Wiki

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:05:37 GMT

Inversion of Control (IoC) is an approach in software development that favors removing sealed dependencies between classes in order to make code more simple and flexible. We push control of dependency creation outside of the class, while making this dependency explicit. Usage of Inversion of Control generally allows to create applications that are more flexible, unit-testable, simple and maintainable in the long run.

Cross-cutting concern - Wiki

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 03:05:24 GMT

In software development cross-cutting concerns are logical parts of the program that affect (crosscut) other concerns or modules. Examples of cross-cutting concerns are...

Case When Open Source Development Tools Are Better

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 02:33:05 GMT

We are currently using Microsoft FxCop utility as part of the continuous integration process. It statically analyzes managed .NET code assemblies and reports any potential design flaws or issues. This tool is not the most flexible one to extend, but it is a nice one to get better insight in the code without wasting a lot of time.