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ReSharper Test Runner is SLOW
I love R#. It’s a great Add-on that makes Visual Studio .NET a usable tool. What I don’t like about R# is it’s test runner – so slow… I switched to use TestDriven.NET almost two years ago. In the last few weeks had to go back to R# test runner. What a difference. I tried to capture the difference on a video, so that you’d see the difference between R# test runner, TD.NET, and command line build script that does everything (compile and test). By the looks of it, R# takes about the same time as command line script. A tool that does literally miracles with VS.NET should be a bit snappier IMO.
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Time to Move On
So now it’s official. After 2 year with Cortex I am leaving. It was an extremely interesting period in my professional life. I was given an opportunity to work with so many great people and an outstanding group of developers, build a great team, exercise TDD/BDD development, experiment with agile processes, design and build systems that evolved the company business in electronic procurement and supply chain management. Among many other things that I could list here, I learned a big deal of human-related skills. In the business of software and computers, human skills are still one of the most important commodities that striving to acquire is necessary for any software developer that wants to be successful.
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Effective REST Services via .NET – Book
This a very good introduction into RESTfull services on .NET platform.
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dynamic in the Wild
Today Jonathan and myself worked on a RESTful service that is responsible to create a new invoice. The design decision was to return HTTP status code 409 (Conflict) in case client tries to add more than once the same invoice. The code looked like this:
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Compliment
Today, a work of two years has manifested itself as an ordinary fact.
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This Developer’s Life Podcast
The other day I was listening to This Developer’s Life podcast, episode 1 – Getting Fired. Please don’t confused, I am not getting fired (yet), but I find it very interesting how Rob formulated his experience. I also completely in agreement with Oren Eini. Being honest (not rude) is a key to successful work relationship. Dealing with people is not always logical, therefore the importance of way things are communicated sometimes exceed the message itself.
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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Management Studio Express
I am so grateful to Graham O’Neale for blogging his experience with installing Management Studio Express for MS SQL Server 2008. This has definitely saved me time (and others based on comments).
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The Agile Samurai – Book
It is a great honour to work with the person who wrote the book I just recently finished reading. The Agile Samurai is a mix of project management and software development. It’s a reality check helper if you are trying to run agile process in your company/team/project. The intention of this post is not to review the book, this is what I will do later at Amazon. Jonathan has managed to make me think of certain things in a different manner, maybe a little bit more realistic. There are a few new tools I can put under my belt (Inception Deck) to move forward with. The most important message from the book IMHO was not taking Agile literally as written - fluctuate, experiment, and question.
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Time and Kids
This is not a technical post.