Category Archives: Computers and Internet

As programmers, we often hear that test code should be a first-class citizen of the project, meaning that it is developed to the same standards, using the same patterns & practices as your production code. Treating your test code this … Continue reading →

On Wednesday, March 17th I will giving a lunchtime presentation on Microsoft Labs’ PEX (Program Explorations) project. PEX is a automated unit testing tool, and although you may not know it yet, it’s your new best friend (If you’re a … Continue reading →

With only two weeks and change left, it’s about time I said…     It’s the first holiday of the year, you know?

Here is a screencast of my recent Code Generation talk at Quick Solutions. This is our first recorded screencast, so we’re a little rough at first, but I think this is pretty good for our first attempt. For the curious, … Continue reading →

I was listening to the Stack Overflow podcast #39 last night while waiting for my daughter’s basketball game to start, and I’m pretty sure Joel just flipped the bozo bit in my mind.  He and Jeff Atwood were discussing test … Continue reading →

This isn’t going to be news to most developers, but I just thought I’d write this down anyway.  I was talking with a colleague yesterday about unit testing, and about RhinoMocks in particular, and came up with what I thought … Continue reading →

On 12/31/08 all the 30 gb Zunes in the whole world died en masse.  This was attributed to a bug having to do with 2008 being a leap year.  Because the 31st was the 366th day of the year, something … Continue reading →

Oh yeah, I forgot to post one of these:   Best… conference… EVAR!

For whatever reason, developers don’t universally love the Visual-Studio-generated Accessor classes, as helpful as they may be.  They do solve a lot of problems when you’re writing unit tests, though.  It would be nice if you could achieve the same … Continue reading →