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I decided to stay on the Design by Contract side for just a little bit. Recently, Raymond Chen posted "If you pass invalid parameters, then all bets are off" in which he goes into parameter validation and basic defensive programming. Many of the conversations...
In one of my previous posts about Command-Query Separation (CQS) and side effecting functions being code smells, it was pointed out to me again about immutable builders. For the most part, this has been one area of CQS that I've been willing to let break...
As I've said before on my previous blogs, I'm very much into F# and functional programming lately. With that, I'm still in the mode of TDD. Just because you enter a new programming paradigm, doesn't mean you throw away your XP and TDD roots. Instead,...
I really enjoyed speaking at this past weekend's CMAP Code Camp. I hope you all enjoyed my presentation on "Loosen Your Dependencies with Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control Containers". It was a great discussion to have with everyone and I...
Well, Brad Wilson and Jim Newkirk must really be busy lately. After I talked about the release of xUnit.net RC2, just today, Brad announced the release of RC3. As always, you can find the latest bits here . This fixes a number of bugs and adds CruiseControl...
I want to thank the fine folks at the Rockville .NET Users Group (RockNUG) and Dean Fiala for giving me the opportunity to speak last night. It was a record crowd last night, so I'm glad that people were interested in Loose Coupling, Design Patterns,...
As Chris Tavares mentioned in his blog , Unity 1.0 has been released a couple of days earlier than the April 7th release date mentioned by Grigori Melnik earlier. Scott Densmore also announced this as well as working on porting the inteception from ObjectBuilder2...
UPDATE: More posts on the subject xUnit.net RC3 Just Released Earlier this week, I wrote about the latest release of xUnit.net RC2. Since that time, Brad Wilson and Jim Newkirk released a new version to fix some of the issues with regards to TestDriven...
It's interesting that a flurry of releases of testing frameworks have been released lately with Gallio , xUnit.net and of course NUnit . Charlie Poole recently announced on a lot of the discussion boards I belong to recently that NUnit 2.4.7 was recently...
UPDATE: More posts on the subject xUnit.net RC3 Just Released Relooking at xUnit.net RC2 UPDATE: xUnit.NET RC2 New Drop includes ASP.NET MVC support and better GUI runner. Details here . UPDATE: Added Static Methods mention and F# - Thanks to DevHawk...
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