Informed TDD – Using Mocks to Allow for True Stepwise Refinement

In my previous article I described a process of designing and implementing software. It combined TDD with explicit thinking before coding. The dialog I embedded it in was supposed to make this deviation ...

The Red Bin a New Information Radiator

In this post I introduce an information radiator called the "Red Bin", which was born out of necessity and has proven very useful to my team. I discuss why we created the Red Bin, how to use it and what ...

APress Deal of the Day - 12/Feb/2014 - Beginning Windows 8 Application Development – XAML Edition

Today's $10 deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Beginning Windows 8 Application Development – XAML Edition "Beginning Windows 8 Application Development – XAML Edition ...

IIS 6 meta reading in .NET

First I'll talk about what made me write this code. I had been asked to set MIME types on IIS 6 web-site using web.config. I read and read for couple of hours but did not reach any good article on it. ...

End of PCI Compliance for Windows XP

Microsoft has announced that Windows XP will reach end-of-life on April 8th, 2014. Windows 2000 already reached end-of-life on 13th July, 2010. PCI-DSS Compliance requires all elements of a Point-Of-Sale ...

Getting Started with Eclipse Juno by Rodrigo Fraxino Araujo, et al, Packt Publishing Book Review

What a versatile platform Eclipse is, I never knew I must admit, before I read this awesome book! Did you know that almost everything at Google was written in Eclipse before they crossed the ford to using ...

Recursively descending test-driven development aided by thinking

“Hey, Ron, wanna try something new”, Janine asked across the table in their team room. Ron looked at her uneasily over his line of monitors. For hours he had been trying to fix this elusive bug. “Nah, ...

Notes from Jan 09, 2014 LIDNUG TDD, Where did it all go Wrong

I recently was asked by a co-worker to watch Ian Cooper talk about TDD to give my take on Mr. Cooper’s presentation on TDD. Here’s what I sent back and decided to share it with all of you as well. He's ...

Getting Input from Touch Screens in JavaScript

JavaScript works just fine for getting user input from a mouse. You have all kinds of mouse related events: click, mousedown, mouseup, mousemove. But if your application only supports devices that use ...

Messaging, recovery scenarios and bypassing validation

We went live recently with a reporting solution which sends details of over-the-counter trades to a global trade repository. It's a fairly complex solution but we've had a great team, did lots of dry-run ...

APress Deal of the day for 9/Feb/2014 - Beginning Windows Phone App Development

Today's $10 deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Beginning Windows Phone App Development. "Master everything you'll need to produce well-designed Windows Phone 7.5 applications ...

Fix for the ‘Could not find test executor’ issue with NUnit, XUnit and Chutzpah when using ReSharper in Visual Studio

This issue is resolved in the latest ReSharper release, version 8.2.0.2160, download here. The issue appears when using the Test Explorer to run tests in any of the frameworks mentioned in the title. The ...

Introducing ROBODOC

We are currently in ward 23 the kids cardiac ward at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle and have been playing with the code club kids programming books and AJ has created his first computer programme.The ...

Linked Data - Structured data on the Web by David Wood, Manning Publications Book Review

Linked Data or Semantic Web was one of the gray areas to me before I read what seems to be the only popularized publication of this kind in the Universe. But it is such a pity that not enough effort was ...

Enable Activity Tracing For Workflow Foundations

Most people using Workflow Foundations only know TrackingParticipants to enable activity tracing. With WF 4 the Sql TrackingParticipant was deprecated and replaced by EtwTrackingParticipant. WF has been ...

Boot Time Analysis

MS is investing heavily into its ETW infrastructure now and in the future. You can find very good online trainings at MS Virtual Academy: http://www.microsoftvirtual... ...

On Dreaming - So Don Belcham and I Walk Into a Bar…

So I’m at an Irish pub with Donald Belcham here in Winnipeg. It’s right on Portage Avenue, a few blocks from the MTS Center. It’s also amateur singer/songwriter night and there’s a stream of people ready ...

Resharper: Add “Locate in Solution Explorer” to the Code Window Tab Context Menu

I Love Resharper’s Find In Solution Explorer command. It locates the currently active code file in the solution explorer. Using my keyboard layout I can activate it using Shift+Alt+L, but most times I ...

Desktop Heap Exhaustion / Hard Bugs

Recently I had an interesting issue to diagnose. We all (readers of my blog) know that forgotten unregister calls to events are a common source of managed memory leaks. The weak event pattern is a common ...

Angular Panel Discussion with Dan Wahlin, Jeremy Likness, John Papa, and Ward Bell

10 Reasons Web Developers Should Learn AngularThere is a very informative video discussing AngularJs, TypeScript, etc that is well worth your time. It got me interested and even excited about Angular and ...

Tutorial: Access Salesforce Leads in SharePoint through an External List

You can expose a data source as an external list in Sharepoint using the RSSBus Connectors. This gives your users the capabilities to access and update live Salesforce data in SharePoint without browsing ...

Import Salesforce Data into Google Spreadsheets

The Salesforce Connector offers standards-based web service endpoints what allow a variety of applications to get data from Salesforce. These endpoints expose data as OData, RSS, HTML, CSV, ATOM, SOAP, ...

Creating Master-Detail Screens in LightSwitch

LightSwitch provides support for using relationships between tables in a data source. However, QuickBooks does not natively expose relationships that can be used in LightSwitch. This article will walk ...

Connecting to Dynamics NAV using the RSSBus OData Provider

This article will demonstrate how to set up the Dynamics NAV OData services and how to connect to these services using the RSSBus ADO.NET Provider for OData. While this article uses the ADO.NET provider, ...

Using the RSSBus Data Providers with the DevExpress Data Grid

The RSSBus ADO.NET providers are standards-based libraries that can be used with various third-party components and tools. In this article we use the Salesforce provider to bind data to the DevExpress ...

Released LINQ to Twitter v3.0.2

Today, I released LINQ to Twitter v3.0.2. This release takes LINQ to Twitter v3.0 out of beta and into a stable release. The primary features of this release are async commands/queries and Portable Class ...

APress Deal of the day for 3/Feb/2014 - Beginning Kinect Programming with the Microsoft Kinect SDK

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Windows 8.1 – God bless the miracast

As happy owner of the most sexy ultrabook Samsung NX900 i5 - I always wanted to use my TV as secondary wireless monitor. Why? Number one: for watching movies, number two: as additional display when I ...

APress Deal of the day for 2/Feb/2014 - Foundation Website Creation with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript

Today's $10 Deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Foundation Website Creation with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript "A timely update of Foundation Website Creation with CSS, ...

Invoking IDbSet<T>.FirstOrDefault(predicate) using reflection

Assuming you have a data context with a property of IDBSet<Person> and person has a property called Id, you can issue: var person = context.PersonDbSet.FirstOr... here’s how you ...

BizTalk Administrator Application Quality Checklist

Over the years one of the tools we have used to help guide improvement of the development of BizTalk applications and deployment to through test environments and into production is the BizTalk Administrator ...

The Self-Similar Software Development Process

I read, with interest, Robert C. Martin´s comment on Justin Searl´s critique of a common TDD teaching approach. Strange it was to see “the good uncle” to be so upset about Justin´s article. Why does he ...

JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, 6th Edition By David Flanagan, O'Reilly Media Book Review

A better name for this book would be JavaScript Bible, alas seems that this trademark name already belongs to another publisher: Wiley. Reading this book, well, made me feel exactly as reading the Bible: ...

APress Deal of the Day - 31/Jan/2014 - Beginning T-SQL 2012

Today's $10 deal from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Beginning T-SQL 2012 "Beginning T-SQL 2012 is the first step toward learning the T-SQL language that underlies Microsoft’s SQL Server ...

Creating An App With Windows Phone App Studio–Part 3

So you read my previous posts, Creating An App With Windows Phone App Studio - Part 1 and Creating An App With Windows Phone App Studio - Part 2, became inspired, and decided to use App Studio to design ...

Release of ASP.NET MVC 5.1, ASP.NET Web API 2.1 and ASP.NET Web Pages 3.1

At http://blogs.msdn.com/b/web... Microsoft have announced the release of ASP.NET MVC 5.1, ...

Free book from Microsoft on Prism for the Windows Runtime

At http://www.microsoft.com/en... Microsoft are offering a free book on Prism for the Windows Runtime. This is a PDF version of the on-line guidance "Developing a Windows ...

Apache Solr 4 Cookbook by Rafał Kuć, Packt Publishing Book Review

Before reading this book I have never even suspected so many kung-fu things can be done with Apache Solr (Lucene)! To name a few: using a spellchecker, indexing binary formats (as PDF), breaking words ...

Visual Studio 2013 Update 1 now available

Visual Studio 2013 Update 1 was made available on 20th Jan! This service pack concentrates on fixing issues with working with versions prior to IE10. Here are some links:VS 2013.1 (Update 1) is available ...

Deployment Automation, DevOps and a bit of BizTalk

I should have done a shout out about this ages ago, but if anyone is interested in deployment automation and at a high level touching on how BizTalk played into this for a large enterprise check out the ...

APress deal of the Day - 29/Jan/2014 - Pro Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2012

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APress Deal of the Day - 26/Jan/2014 - Designing for Windows 8

Today's $10 Deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Designing for Windows 8 "Designing for Windows 8 is a fast-paced, 150-page primer on the key design concepts you need to ...

NSlice v. 1.2

New version of NSlice has been released. What’s new? SliceDelete extension method for enumerable types. (You can read what SliceDelete does in the previous post) Like the Slice extension for enumerable ...

ETWControler 1.0.0.0 Released!

During the end of 2013 I had a little free time to create a tool to help diagnose performance problems in distributed systems. If you have a machine connected to a remote server and you want to find out ...

Flowing a Windows Identity through Azure Service Bus Queues

Ive recently written a whitepaper about how you could flow the details of a Windows Identity through Windows Azure Service Bus Queues and then use that on-premise to act as that user when accessing downstream ...

Keeping up with the Jones’s in the Cloud

Been meaning to blog about this topic for a while and it's an area that I've been wondering if it will come up in the future as a governance challenge for organizations using the cloud. Let's consider ...

Use Mono.Cecil to Reflect Assembly Metadata with Better Performance

In my project there is a platform component which takes the responsible for controlling and monitoring all other components and it need to lead all other components' metadata when starting. We defined ...

Friendly URLs with Visual Studio 2013

A few months ago I set up a web forms project for a new client using Visual Studio 2013. One of the default NuGet packages - ASPNet.FriendlyURLs - was very exciting to see - Scott Hanselman Explains more ...

Creating An App With Windows Phone App Studio–Part 2

Welcome back! In my previous post, Creating An App With Windows Phone App Studio - Part 1, we started the process of designing an app through Windows Phone App Studio using one of the templates provided. ...

RabbitMQ for .net Developers Part 2

My recent course on RabbitMQ for .net Developers part 2 has just gone live on Pluralsighthttp://pluralsig... ...