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Thursday, August 07, 2008 10:36 AM

The “Why To” Manual

Hank Wallace turned me on to a post by Allison Shapira where she summarizes a key point from Rob Walker's writeup of the Blue Man Group - the "Why To" manual. This "Actors' Journal" is not so much a how-to manual as a why-to manual; it's not about stage...
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Thursday, August 07, 2008 9:40 AM

Miško Hevery on Writing Testable Code

Miško Hevery has written a great summary of some basic coding rules for testability in his post Writing Testable Code . I love this quote because every time I introduce unit testing to someone who has an existing code base you can see this in their eyes...
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Monday, October 08, 2007 10:56 AM

The Last Language War / Language Trolling Post You'll Ever Need To Read (Hopefully)

Via Jeremy D. Miller This post by David is hilarious (warning programmer humor...)
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Monday, October 08, 2007 10:55 AM

Jim Highsmith on the Chaos reports

Max Wideman got permission to reprint Jim Highsmith's article The Chaos Report - Reality Challenged . Jim takes on the Chaos report for their definitions of success and failure. This is something that has bothered me for years. I've been on several "failed...
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Thursday, June 15, 2006 11:12 AM

What Do You Need To Know?

Time to vent. I’ve been trying to hire a couple of senior developers on a team that is primarily building a web based framework (i.e. software for developers). I have some minimal expectations for a senior developer that I don’t think are all that outrageous...
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Friday, February 17, 2006 9:04 AM

HanselMinutes #4

Scott Hanselman has started a podcast called HanselMinutes to talk tools and utilities. Episode #4 on Continuous Integration caught my attention because of 2 names mentioned during the discussion of the Ruby Watir library. Both Dustin Woodhouse and Travis...
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Sunday, June 26, 2005 10:56 AM

[Article]Simplify Data Layer Unit Testing using Enterprise Services

Roy has a really nice article that addresses the problem of testing data access code. The only thing is that it is missing a really important step assuming you are using object like views, stored procedures, user defined functions, rules, etc. I've been...
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Monday, May 02, 2005 9:20 AM

International Addresses

Darrell pointed me to this site on International Addresses and the complexities therein. Darrell is using this from a testing point of view, but I have been fascinated for years about how to design an effective solution for US based systems that need...
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Thursday, April 21, 2005 3:10 PM

Together Developer for Visual Studio.NET

Borland has released a version of Together Developer that integrates into VS.NET. Check out the screen casts . I'm thinking that Together combined with ReSharper from JetBrains could be one killer combination.
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Monday, April 11, 2005 8:43 AM

Build Servers - Love 'em & Hate 'em

Jim Shore wrote about why he doesn't like Cruise Control . I agree to some extent with his points that the reason teams use it is to catch build errors and deal with "slow" builds. Having implemented both Draco.NET and CruiseControl.NET and toyed with...
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