Jonathan Cogley's Blog
C#, Test Driven Development, Pair Programming, MVP C#, ASPInsider, Secret Server
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Darrell Norton, I presume.
The local DC and surrounding area .NET community leaders came together last night courtesy of Microsoft's local Developer Community Champion, Geoff Snowman and our new Developer Evangelist, Andrew Duthie.
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Thycotic.Data (DAL) gets a wiki!
Thycotic.Data (our free, open source, database independent DAL) has finally reached the point of requiring some documentation! (The project was spawned as a result of a presentation on late binding ADO.NET Providers back in early 2003). We use it at Thycotic Software on all our projects but others in the community appear to be using it too.
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Customizing WebControls at the DC .NET UG Today
I will be presenting at the Inner DC .NET User Group today (11/16) on Customizing WebControls. The session will be very "hands on" with lots of code and plenty of time for Q & A. The focus will be on all the things people seem to be missing in *current* (pre 2.0) ASP.NET development.
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Q & A from Build and Deploy with NAnt in Rockville
I presented on "Build and Deploy with NAnt" (slides/code available) at the WinProTeam Rockville .NET User Group on 11/4.
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CruiseControl.NET - second impressions ...
On our current project we have been running our NAnt build script using a Windows Scheduled Task. While this never seemed particularly sophisticated, it did the job especially given that our build (plus all test suites) takes around 2 hours to run! Today, I installed CruiseControl.NET for a dabble - my last experience was many moons ago - when SourceGear Vault support was still a do-it-yourself affair.
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Build and Deploy with NAnt in Rockville on Thurs 4th November
I will be presenting on NAnt and how to use it to build and deploy your software - the session will touch on the commonly used tasks and how to use them in your integration process. It promises to be a great jumpstart for the NAnt newbie and may even show the seasoned NAnt'er a thing or two - such as C# scripting in NAnt and building your own custom tasks.
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When Refactoring is YAGNI ...
I attended a Washington DC XP UG (WDCXP) meeting tonight for the first time. It was a small turnout with Bryant Smith presenting on DIP (Dependency Inversion Principle) with a slant to persuading new developers to adopt agile techniques through design patterns. The discussions were interesting and varied wildy across different aspects of design patterns and XP.
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Bill Gates mentions Automated Testing Tools in his view of the future
Scoble points to this article ("The Enduring Magic of Software") by Bill Gates in which Bill states:
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Passed Certification 70-315 - Web Apps with C#
Just passed 70-315 this morning!!
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TDD Interview with Capital Area .NET
A series of interview questions and answers have been posted by the Capital Area .NET User Group as a followup to the presentation I gave at their user group in July. The questions are quite probing and make a good introduction to TDD for both the newbie and the skeptic. Feel free to comment on their site with thoughts from your own experiences!