How to improve testability of web applications(gojko.net)

submitted by gojko(1115) 3 years, 3 months ago

Last week I participated in the first Openspace Coding Days in London. The event was organised as a series of ad-hoc coding workshops, and I really enjoyed it. I participated in a very interesting workshop on improving testability of web UIs, that later focused particularly on Microsoft’s new ASP.NET MVC framework. Here are a couple of conclusions we came to: read more...

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Messaging is not just for investment banks(gojko.net)

submitted by gojko(1115) 3 years, 4 months ago

It seems that HTTP calls have become a default way to think about distributed systems. HTTP and Web services definitely have a lot to offer, but they are not the only way to do things and there are definitely cases where web is not the right choice. Unfortunately, lots of people just stick with web services and hack on, trying to fit a square peg in a round hole. In cases such as these, a different distribution paradigm can save us quite a lot of time and effort both in development and later in maintenance. One of those different paradigms is messaging. read more...

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CloudCamp London 2: private clouds and standardisation(gojko.net)

submitted by gojko(1115) 3 years, 6 months ago

CloudCamp returned to London yesterday, organised with the help of Skills Matter at the Crypt on the Clarkenwell green. The main topics of this cloud/grid computing community meeting were service-level agreements, connecting private and public clouds and standardisation issues. read more...

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Dependency injection with Castle Windsor: Video(gojko.net)

submitted by sirrocco(800) 3 years, 6 months ago

Here’s the video from the talk on dependency injection with Castle Windsor that Mike Hadlow and Gojko Adzic did last month at Skills Matter. read more...

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Script#: the .NET response to the Google Web Toolkit(gojko.net)

submitted by gojko(1115) 3 years, 7 months ago

Script# is a free .NET tool that converts C# into JavaScript, allowing us to a lot of existing C# tool support to write and manage large JavaScript code bases easier. This presentation introduces Script#, explains when and how to use it and discusses some common pitfalls with this tool. read more...

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Alt.NET UK summer conference report(gojko.net)

submitted by gojko(1115) 3 years, 8 months ago

The second Alt.Net UK open conference took place on Saturday in London, with about 100 people attending and 16 sessions. read more...

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Really simple .NET remoting with Castle(gojko.net)

submitted by gojko(1115) 3 years, 10 months ago

Simplified calls to remote services are among the most useful features of the Java Spring framework. In .NET, I use Castle for the application framework wiring and I was looking for something similar — it turns out that the remote proxy calls are incredibly simple with Castle as well. read more...

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Clean your HTML inputs or the dog-eaters will get to you(gojko.net)

submitted by gojko(1115) 3 years, 11 months ago

Google sent quite a few people looking for underground Korean adult movies to my blog. I guess that you can find anything on Internet these days, but why were they looking for it on my web site? The answer to that question turned out to be another great example of why inputs should be cleaned up no matter how unimportant. read more...

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Unit testing Monorail Web sitest(gojko.net)

submitted by gojko(1115) 3 years, 11 months ago

One of the best things about Castle Monorail MVC engine is that it allows us to test controllers from the IDE, without actually deploying anything to the web server. A major problem with most web development environments, including classic ASP.NET, is that the workflow and session logic can only be tested through the UI. User interface testing is slow, pain to maintain and generally does not pay off as much as code unit tests do. Monorail’s programming model allows us to test workflow and session logic from the code, leaving only the actual rendering outside the reach of unit tests. That is how Monorail empowers us to really apply agile principles to web development, and saves us even more time and effort. read more...

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Saving time and effort with advanced Monorail features(gojko.net)

submitted by gojko(1115) 4 years ago

In the third part of the Castle tutorial, we look into the features of Monorail that allow us to save a lot of time and effort when developing web applications. We explore advanced Monorail concepts that help us delegate error processing and authentication to the framework and reuse templates. We also look into how Monorail integrates nicely with ActiveRecord to automatically load and modify database objects based on HTML forms. read more...

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Castle demo App #2: Monorail basics(gojko.net)

submitted by gojko(1115) 4 years ago

In the second part of the Castle demo application tutorial, we look into the basic features of Castle’s powerful Model-View-Controller system, called Monorail. Monorail is based on Ruby on Rails, and brings two very important features to .NET web development... read more...

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ActiveRecord basics and unit testing(gojko.net)

submitted by gojko(1115) 4 years ago

I’ve decided to build a demo application with the Castle project for an internal training session, to show how easy it is to work with this framework and to demonstrate the best practices. I will post the tutorial in parts on this web site as I develop it. In the first post, we work on the object-relational mapping with ActiveRecord and write unit tests for the database mapping layer. read more...

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Put the web server on a diet and increase scalability(gojko.net)

submitted by gojko(1115) 4 years ago

Misusing HTTP sessions is probably the number one obstacle to building scalable web sites today. Here are some tips how to consume HTTP sessions responsibly. read more...

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What makes a good application framework(gojko.net)

submitted by gojko(1115) 4 years, 1 month ago

I have been using the Castle Project for about two years now, and it is definitely one of my favourite tools. It is truly a great example of how a good application framework should be written. Although all the concepts that it provides have been around for a while and became popular with other frameworks like Spring for Java or Ruby on Rails, the Castle Project brings them together in a very effective way and makes enterprise .NET development significantly easier. read more...

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FIT/FitNesse Fixture Gallery(gojko.net)

submitted by gojko(1115) 4 years, 2 months ago

Fixture Gallery is a cookbook for FIT/FitNesse tests. It provides developers with a quick overview of the most important fixture types and concepts for agile acceptance testing using the FIT framework. For each fixture type, this document explains the table format and fixture class structure and provides advice when to use and when not to use it. Each example is accompanied by the source code for Java and .NET FIT implementations, in a form that can be easily copied and used as a template for similar fixtures. read more...

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When TDD goes bad(gojko.net)

submitted by gojko(1115) 4 years, 3 months ago

Last week, at the London .NET User Group meeting, Ian Cooper talked about Test-driven development, focusing on both good and bad practices. I’m a big fan of learning from anti-patterns and mistakes of other people, so the second part of his session was very interesting to me. Here is a short list of things that Ian identified as symptoms that TDD has gone bad in a project, along with my comments... read more...

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