Weird thought for today: if unit tests are just code, then shouldn’t you write tests before you write that code? Test-driven-test-driven-development (TDTDD) if you will. But then where would it stop.
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Weird thought for today: if unit tests are just code, then shouldn’t you write tests before you write that code? Test-driven-test-driven-development (TDTDD) if you will. But then where would it stop.
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The Silverlight 4 Training Course includes a whitepaper that explains all of the new Silverlight 4 features, several hands-on-labs that explain the features, and a 8 unit course for building business applications with Silverlight 4. The business applications course includes 8 modules with extensive hands on labs as well as 25 accompanying videos that walk you through key aspects of building a business application with Silverlight. Here’s a list of the modules:
Visit Channel 9 for more great Silverlight content.
I had the honor of meeting a couple of dedicated software developers from “up North” at the Boise Code Camp this last weekend. They’ve been coming to our ‘camp for a couple of years now and are ready to pull the trigger on running one of their own. This is awesome.
The Palouse Code Camp will be held at the Washing State University in Pullman, WA. This is just over 300 miles from Boise State University where we held our event. The preliminary date is 18 September, 2010 but it could change based on events at the school, etc.
Bookmark www.palousecodecamp.org and we’ll see you there!
I had a lot of fun this weekend hanging out with my fellow developers, speakers, and hungry-minds at the Boise Code Camp.
Here are a few photos and a small video of the welcome session attendees.
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David Starr our happy host |
Ole Dam discusses leadership | Elle runs a tight ship | Welcome session (.wmv) |
Also, for those of you who attended my presentations, here are links to the demo files:
For those cities or countries that take photographs of your license plate, then looks up who to send the speed ticket to.
Credit goes to the original hacker – whoever that may be.
According to the Scrum Guide, a Scrum Team consists of the ScrumMaster, the Product Owner, and the Team. This works great, until issues, impediments, and dysfunctions are identified and its time to do some serious housecleaning (read: fire or repurpose team members). Since this is dirty work nobody likes to do, I propose a new, fourth role be added to the Scrum Team for just such situations: The Cleaner.
So if you are the schlubbish team member who holds the team record for number of impediments (caused), then beware when this guy comes to your cubicle:
Harvey Keitel as
“The Wolf” in Pulp
Fiction
In Paris for a week and working at Microsoft’s new “Le Campus”. It’s very new and very cool. One of the coolest things about the building is the smart elevators. They are not a new thing, but you don’t see them very often in the USA. Here’s how they work.
Step 1 – enter the floor you want to go to.
Step 2 – it tells you which car to get in.
Step 3 – ride the car to the floor (there are no controls inside the car).
Why is this better? It groups people together in cars going to similar floors, which makes the trips shorter, faster, and more energy-efficient.
I was in Mobile Alabama for the week talking Team System and got invited to the Lower
Alabama .NET User Group (LANUG) to speak on VS 2010 and TDD. This was a fun evening,
good pizza, and test-first software development. Thanks to Ryan
Duclos and Matthew
Hughes for coordinating this. if you attended, the files are linked at the bottom.
Attachment: LANUGDemo.zip (28k)
I’ll be presenting a talk on Unit Testing and TDD using Visual Studio Ultimate 2010 in Mobile, Alabama next month. If you are in the area, please join us at the ITT Technical Institute on Tuesday, Nov 10, 2009 at 6:00 PM. Thanks to Morrison Management Specialists for sponsoring the event.
Contact Ryan Duclos to RSVP or if you have any questions.
Also, be sure to attend Alabama Code Camp 8 (Jan 23, 2010)
The Developing SharePoint Applications guidance helps architects and developers design and build applications that are both flexible and scalable. It shows developers how to provide IT professionals with the information they need to maintain those applications and diagnose problems when they arise. The guidance also discusses approaches for testing SharePoint applications, such as how to create unit tests, and how to stress and scale test.
You can review the guidance project on CodePlex as well as on Microsoft’s site. You can download the guidance document (11 mb) here.