Matt Scilipoti's WebLog

Scalable web service provider, content management + more

mmscili — Sun, 09 Mar 2003 16:13:00 GMT

Metaverse builds and delivers enterprise applications as scalable online services.

Configuration File Handler

mmscili — Sun, 09 Mar 2003 02:52:00 GMT

Interesting ConfigurationFileHandler. Operates like WebConfig.

Teams and .Net

mmscili — Sun, 09 Mar 2003 02:47:00 GMT

Lot's of posts about MS Team Development Guide. Let's follow one.

NAnt Info

mmscili — Sat, 08 Mar 2003 23:02:00 GMT

NAnt Info

I'm just starting to learn this too. The 'worth it' factor rises sharply with team development and moving from dev to test to prod.

Microsoft Windows XP Professional Lets Virtual Development Team Achieve Tangible Productivity and Profitability Gains

mmscili — Sat, 08 Mar 2003 21:28:00 GMT

Microsoft Windows XP Professional Lets Virtual Development Team Achieve Tangible Productivity and Profitability Gains

Critical Domain LLC is a small, efficient group of independent technology professionals who work as an experienced team to provide customers with software development, project planning and management services. Teamwork, shared experience and combined technical and business solution savvy set Critical Domain apart from other independent technology consulting firms.

OO Tips

mmscili — Tue, 04 Mar 2003 16:50:00 GMT

OOTips

The purpose of ootips is to allow developers to keep up-to-date with object oriented technologies, without having to read through high volume, low signal-to-noise sources. I try to extract the most useful and interesting posts from other mailing lists, newsgroups and web forums, and post about one article every week or two.

Design Pattern site, Vince Huston

mmscili — Tue, 04 Mar 2003 16:49:00 GMT

Design Patterns site. Well organizd. Lots of information.

FITnesse: simple acceptance testing framework and WIKI. from Ward Cunningham.

mmscili — Sat, 01 Mar 2003 05:05:00 GMT

What Is FitNesse

FitNesse is a collaborative testing and documentation tool.
It provides a very simple way for teams to:

collaboratively create documents,
specify acceptance tests,
and run those tests.
This is what a sample acceptance test looks like.
This is what more realistic acceptance tests look like.

FitNesse is a stand alone Java application.
- It requires no configuration or setup.
- Just run it and then direct your browser to port 80 (the normal http port) on the machine where it is running.

FitNesse is a wiki.
- You can easily create:

The Code Model

mmscili — Fri, 28 Feb 2003 22:56:00 GMT

Here's some info about the .net code module.

Chapter 12: The Code Model

The idea is simple—define a single API that captures the essence of the most common programming constructs, and have each of the languages in Visual Studio .NET implement that API in its native tongue. The result is a single set of objects—the code model—that a programmer can use to read or write code in any of the languages in Visual Studio .NET.

Strange Error: in ASP.

mmscili — Wed, 26 Feb 2003 03:13:00 GMT

Strange Error. Happened with Literal too. Parser Error Description: An error occurred during the parsing of a resource required to service this request. Please review the following specific parse error details and modify your source file appropriately. Parser Error Message: The base class includes the field 'ConstructIDLabel', but its type (System.Web.UI.WebControls.Label) is not compatible with the type of control (System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox). Source Error:

Line 14: <table>
Line 15: 	<tr>
Line 16: 		<td><asp:TextBox id="ConstructIDLabel" runat="server"></asp:TextBox></td>
Line 17: 		<td><asp:TextBox id="ConstructIDTextBox" runat="server" Text='<%# DataBinder.Eval(DataView1, "[0].ConstructID") %>'></asp:TextBox></td>
Line 18: 	</tr>

Proc-Blaster Code Generator

mmscili — Tue, 25 Feb 2003 14:55:00 GMT

Proc-Blaster Code Generator

The key feature of Proc-Blaster is Template based code generation that allow users to configure custom code patterns automated with the scripting language of your choice, VBScript or JScript.

Marketing info looks good. Lots of SQL support too.

EntityBroker from Thona Consulting

mmscili — Mon, 24 Feb 2003 14:29:00 GMT

EntityBroker

The EntityBroker is a framework for automatically mapping your business objects into database tables. Reading and writing the data contained in the objects is done automatically - as a developer, you just add some lines of attributes to the code of your business object, and you get transparent persistence. The Framework is not only handling simple object persistence, but also handling relations, data binding and complex queries.
If you are more interested in this technology, have a look at our brief product description.

UnitTesting internals... again. rubot: smack mmscili

mmscili — Mon, 24 Feb 2003 05:38:00 GMT

I am building an app to help me journal my time. It is similar to a blog (eventually may feed a blog). After creating JournalEntry and JournalEntryCollecition. I wanted to persist the collection.

My initial testing thoughts were:

Serialization is simplest way.
How to test serialize works?

Make sure file isn't there.
Add Entry (should serialize automatically)
Test for file existence.

This lead to:

How do I know file name? Don't know
Should I send it in? or should object publish it?
Let's base it on a guid (.xml).
Added guid to JournalEntry.
Duh. We are serializing the collection into a file, not individual items to each file.
Add guid to Collection? Wait, let's think again.
Eureka. Forget all this complicated crap.

Final test:

Create Collection, add item, kill collection. Create new collection, hydrate, test item.

There was no need to test internals. For now, I assume the collection always has all the entries.

Only issue: I am actually testing the save and load at the same time. Hmm.

Update XML Schema from DataBase

mmscili — Sun, 23 Feb 2003 05:39:00 GMT

Update XML Schema from DataBase

Author: Tim Heap
Need to update a schema file from a sql server 2000 db ? Don't want the hassle of using the XML objects and appending elements or atttributes ? Use my cunning program, with a few changes and re-generate your schema file every time your database changes (you can fire it using a trigger, or call it from a vb program when you click on cmd_submit...

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Words to remember.

mmscili — Fri, 21 Feb 2003 16:13:00 GMT

From Tony Hoare's Turing Award lecture

"I have regarded it as the highest goal of programming language design to enable good ideas to be elegantly expressed."

"There are two ways to design systems: make them simple enough to be obviously right, or make them complex enough not to be obviously wrong."

When? 1980.