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As a consultant, I have the opportunity to work at a wide range of clients. I get a lot of variety this way, and it keeps things interesting. It also gives me a chance to see patterns across different companies. … Continue reading →

I’d like to share a real-world example of where having good test coverage has paid off for me personally. First, a little background. I’ve explained unit testing to many different clients, and on many different projects. Some of these have … Continue reading →

I’m giving a presentation on August 12th at QSI.  I think it’s a pretty cool one if I must say so myself.  Come learn about T4 templating and what it can do for you.  What it’s doing for me at … Continue reading →

I’ve heard a lot of developers bash one unit testing framework or another because of the lack of the RowTest attribute, which I beleive originated in MbUnit, at least as far as .net developers are concerned. If it came over … Continue reading →

I’ve used IoC containers on several projects now, and quite frankly never want to live without them again.  They make so many things easier for me that they have become part of my way of designing.  I like deciding in … Continue reading →

Have you ever been at a party and two drunk and/or stoned guys are sitting in the corner discussing the meaning of life or the nature of existence?  Would you have any interest in reading a transcript of that conversation?  … Continue reading →

I meant to write about this book a while back, but got caught up in a bunch of projects and didn’t get around to it.  If you haven’t bought this book yet, you really should.  The first edition has been … Continue reading →

A while back, my friend and coworker Kris Scott posted an article about using a proxy around DataContext classes to add support for isolation/mocking for testing purposes.  I won’t re-hash the basic idea here, as Kris’ blog entry explains it … Continue reading →

Since I posted my Teeny Tiny Template parser last week, I figured I’d keep going and post about my Itty Bitty IoC container as well.  I’m not going to attempt to define IoC or Dependency Injection in this blog post, … Continue reading →

On my current project, I need to "fill in the blanks" in some text file templates.  It’s nothing we haven’t all done before using a series of string.Replace functions, and they work just fine, but they’re not shiny enough.  Also, … Continue reading →