Test Driven Design By Example(www.makecodingeasy.com)

submitted by stevevaubell(95) 20 days, 7 hours ago

We have started using Test Driven Design (hopefully properly) over the last few months and I wanted to share our experiences of it. Before we started using TDD our approach to unit testing was to find a unit of work that we had just completed and write a test to make sure the output of the method was what we expected. The most obvious problem with this is that while we are hoping that the unit test will be testing the method, actually what we were doing was testing the method and everything that used it. So in this case we were testing any service calls, database calls, any other classes and objects that are used in the method. read more...

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HTML5: The New Frontier(www.makecodingeasy.com)

submitted by stevevaubell(95) 9 months, 27 days ago

The intention of this post is to look at the changes in HTML5. HTML5 is the next revision of the language that is generally used to write content on the web. The new version of HTML has been compiled by The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The W3C is (in their own words) “an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards”. The new version of HTML boasts a number of new features that are useful. read more...

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WCF Web Service and JavaScript(www.makecodingeasy.com)

submitted by stevevaubell(95) 1 year, 1 month ago

Over the last week or so I have been playing around with a simple WCF service to send and receive data from JavaScript using JQuery. I thought that this would be a lot easier than I found it. The other interesting thing I found is that a few people seem to have had trouble getting the two to connect and work. When I set up a standard Service in Visual Studio 2010. I thought it would be easy. You would just use the $.ajax to send through the request and wait for an answer from the service. Now this is probably due to the fact that I am not familiar with WCF, but I thought it would be simple. Well I found that a few things did not work. So What I have done is created a simple project based in MVC 3 (not that that even matters, Since there is only one page on the website), and a service. read more...

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Silverlight Journey: Controls and Layout(www.makecodingeasy.com)

submitted by stevevaubell(95) 1 year, 5 months ago

This is the second round at looking into Silverlight. In this post I will be looking at the layout structure of the canvas as well as controls available to the user and how to use them. read more...

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Beginning a Silverlight journey(www.makecodingeasy.com)

submitted by stevevaubell(95) 1 year, 6 months ago

There has been a talk around Windows 7 phone and so I thought I would start looking into Silverlight. So lets begin at the beginning: Silverlight is an add-on that allows the the use of images, sound and video on various platforms such as Windows 7 phone or the web. Since the point of this really is to learn, I will be learning at the same time. read more...

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Improving The Code I Write(www.makecodingeasy.com)

submitted by stevevaubell(95) 2 years, 3 months ago

Something has recently been coming up that has captured my attention: “Code Smells”. By Code smells I mean the ability to look or evaluate any piece of code that has been written and assess its value based on a number of indicators. The question that started me on this path is: “How many developers look at ways of improving the way they write code?”. read more...

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A Guide to implementing NHibernate with MySql(www.makecodingeasy.com)

submitted by stevevaubell(95) 2 years, 4 months ago

NHibernate is a way of managing information from an application to a relational database. It is part of Hibernate.Core developed for the .Net platform. The way NHibernate works is by mapping the database to the objects with the use of XML files. read more...

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Unit testing(makecodingeasy.com)

submitted by stevevaubell(95) 2 years, 4 months ago

Almost anyone working in development these days will say that unit tests are an integral part of any application development. I think the reality of a lot of application development does not have unit testing. I would be interesting to find out how many projects have unit testing and what the test coverage is. The point of this post is not to complain about the lack of unit testing but to look at the process of creating quality unit test for a project. read more...

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Linq To Data Sets(makecodingeasy.com)

submitted by stevevaubell(95) 2 years, 5 months ago

I have been slowly moving the system I am working on from old legacy DataSets and DataTables to adding a bit of linq. Here is a quick and simple guide to using Linq with DataTables. read more...

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MySql Revelations(makecodingeasy.com)

submitted by stevevaubell(95) 2 years, 5 months ago

I am used to MS Sql when writing web based applications but recently I have started working for a company that uses MySql. This has been fairly similar in most cases but there have been some differences that I have battled to find answers to online so I thought I would put them here and hopefully they will help someone else (like me) who is newish to MySql. read more...

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Quick Start Linq to XML(makecodingeasy.com)

submitted by stevevaubell(95) 2 years, 5 months ago

I have recently used linq to Xml on the application that I am using and found it really easy to use so I thought I would put together a quick how to guide read more...

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Caching in .NET(makecodingeasy.com)

submitted by stevevaubell(95) 2 years, 6 months ago

A look into caching techniques in .Net read more...

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Using NHibernate (years after I should have been)(frickinsweet.com)

submitted by dengar007(3084) 4 years ago

Getting up and running with NHibernate. read more...

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