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Stinky PartialMocks?
Thursday, May 14, 2009 10:56 PM
Jimmy has posted about PartialMocks on the team blog .  This has been a recurring discussion on our team and it is worthwhile thinking careful about whether to use PartialMocks and if so, what is an appropriate usage … Jonathan Cogley is the CEO of Thycotic Software, an agile software consulting and product development company based in Washington DC. ... Read More...
Name a variable like you name your first born
Wednesday, April 15, 2009 7:14 PM
There is a new post on our team blog - it is poking fun but still makes you think. :)   Jonathan Cogley is the CEO of Thycotic Software, an agile software consulting and product development company based in Washington DC.  Secret Server is our flagship enterprise password management product. Read More...
Refactoring logic from an ASP.NET page - Part 2
Thursday, April 09, 2009 6:55 PM
Kevin has posted the second part to his refactoring logic in ASP.NET series .  This time he looks at hand rolling a mock object and also talks about the importance of separating your logic. Don't forget to subscribe to the Thycotic Team Blog about Software Development (regular postings every Thursday).   Jonathan Cogley is the CEO of Thycotic Software... Read More...
Refactoring logic from an ASP.NET page
Friday, April 03, 2009 10:19 AM
Kevin has posted about refactoring some simple logic from an ASP.NET page and breaking it out into a separate class (Single Responsibility Principle) to make the code more maintainable. Kevin highlights the classic problem with unmaintainable code and works his way into how to not only improve this code but also how to make it more testable. Don't forget to subscribe... Read More...
Code Camps this weekend!
Thursday, April 10, 2008 10:54 PM
There are two code camps this weekend: CMAP Code Camp in Maryland Pittsburgh Code Camp in Pennsylvania I will be speaking at the Pittsburgh Code Camp on Refactoring - a topic that is very dear to me. Register now and come along to talk code.   We are hiring!  Do you want to write beautiful code in a Test Driven, Refactored, Agile .NET software company... Read More...
Don't miss the Nova Code Camp South this weekend!
Friday, March 28, 2008 8:34 AM
The NoVa CodeCamp South v1 will be held on March 29th 2008 in Woodbridge VA.  The speaker schedule has been posted here .   I am presenting two sessions: 9:00-10:15:     Refactoring in C# 1:00-2:15:        Web Application Testing in Watin Register now !   We are hiring!  Do you want to... Read More...
Can you find the bug in this code? (THE FIX)
Wednesday, March 26, 2008 12:30 PM
Thanks to everyone for contributing!  It was really neat to read everyone's ideas and see the discussion and review (talking about code is always fun!).  Here is a summary of responses and the "fixed" code.  If you are interested in the original problem, go here .   @drakiula: The idea with the Response.Redirect is that it will stop... Read More...
Please question the need for whitespace
Tuesday, March 18, 2008 12:02 AM
I have blogged about this before but I think it is a common problem that is worth restating since it affect developers across our industry.  I noticed the following method recently and again the curious separation of sections by whitespace popped into my head: 1: private void CalcHeaderOffsets() 2: { 3: this .fs = new FileStream( assemblyPath, FileMode.Open... Read More...
NoVa CodeCamp South v1 speaking schedule has been announced!
Friday, March 07, 2008 11:48 PM
The NoVa CodeCamp South v1 will be held on March 29th 2008 in Woodbridge VA.  The speaker schedule has been posted here . I will be presenting on two topics: Refactoring in C# - bad code to better code Web Application Testing in Watin There are lots of great sessions from WPF, TDD, SSIS, jQuery, SQL Server 2008 and more... You can register now .   We... Read More...
Refactoring in C# at RockNUG this week
Friday, March 07, 2008 10:35 PM
I will be giving a presentation on Refactoring in C# at RockNUG on Wednesday March 12th 2008 at 6:30pm.  Directions here . What could be more fun on a Wednesday evening than critiquing some bad code and making it better? :) Come along to learn how to clean code like the Thycotic team. What do we look for? How do we take small steps to keep it working? What... Read More...
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