When I started blogging back in 2005 I created my personal blog on Blogger. I’ve been using this excellent blogging service over the years, enjoying the luxuries of not having t...
Read more ...I’ve been learning about functional programming for quite some time now, trying to wrap my head around the various concepts that this paradigm has to offer. One of the languages...
Read more ...It’s true. I’m a Sublime Text addict. It’s by far my favorite development tool. End of story! Just to illustrate, earlier this week, a member of our development team asked how t...
Read more ...I noticed this blog post from Scott Hanselman the other day about Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop. This post included a screenshot from the installation program. ...
Read more ...The last couple of weeks I’ve been playing with a load testing tool called Blitz. You can create a free account which provides you the ability to ‘rush’ your web application wit...
Read more ...I’ve been using E-TextEditor for more than a year now for doing all my JavaScript, Node.js and CoffeeScript development. You can think of E-TextEditor as TextMate for the Window...
Read more ...My very first encounter with a version control system was CVS. I’ve used this tool for many years (late 90’s, early 2000’s), learning a lot of best practices about source contro...
Read more ...I just want to quickly point out a tool that I’ve been playing with for a couple of days now, named AutoTest.NET. Its an open-source tool that originates from a popular tool in ...
Read more ...This morning, I spent the first 30 minutes of my day figuring out why the CI build failed after I checked in some changes to the code. No big deal, right? I just messed up. Tur...
Read more ...I've been a long time user of MyInfo, a personal information manager in which I keep a long history of information that I've assembled over the last couple of years as a develop...
Read more ...I want to put out a short sequel to my previous post on Active Conventions with NDepend. Also make sure to read Patrick Smacchia's follow-up if your interested. As you may or ma...
Read more ...Some time ago Patrick Smacchia wrote a nice article on his blog about active conventions on your code base. I thought I tried this for myself and made up some interesting CQL qu...
Read more ...What is elegant code? Everyone agrees that this is a rather subjective topic. I wrote down my take on this matter not so long ago. Almost every developer out there (an probably ...
Read more ...This blog has been silent for a while, and for good reason. Besides experiencing symptoms of writer's block, I've also been playing around with a lot of new stuff (at least new...
Read more ...I would like to make a service announcement from the JetBrains fan club: TeamCity 3.1 is here! I took me about 15 minutes to upgrade my existing home installation. It actually t...
Read more ...In my previous post on JetBrains TeamCity I mentioned that it has no support for .NET code coverage. With this post I want to correct the injustice of this statement. It was a ...
Read more ...I've been goofing around with TeamCity over the last week. After reading some posts about TeamCity (1)(2), I decided to give it a try. In my continuous quest to eliminate the am...
Read more ...When writing unit tests that involve interaction based testing, you most likely end up using one of the mocking frameworks out there. The mocking framework I'm using is Rhino Mo...
Read more ...I'm a huge fan of Total Commander for as long as I can remember. Thinking about it, I'm using it for more than 10 years now. Today, I accidentally discovered a very nice feature...
Read more ...A good craftsman can be recognized by the tools he's using. Therefore its time again for the world famous, ever growing Scott Hanselman's 2007 Ultimate Developer and Power Users...
Read more ...Over the weekend, I finished reading Windows Developer Power Tools. Its this huge and heavy book with 1207 pages of 170+ free tool goodness. The danger of buying a book like thi...
Read more ...Over the weekend I watched this screen cast from Oren Eini. You should have a look at it, even if you're completely not interested in mocking frameworks. The best commercial of ...
Read more ...At work there's a discussion going on whether we will choose NUnit or Team System Unit Test for our unit tests. Currently we have about 1000+ unit tests written in NUnit and we ...
Read more ...I'm a big fan of the Opera web browser for many years now. I like it because it's the underdog. They don't have the same market share as IE and Firefox, but I find it the most i...
Read more ...The forthcoming release of NUnit 2.4 supports a constraint-based syntax for assertions. Don't worry, the old syntax (classic model) is still going to be available for a long tim...
Read more ...I just finished reading Kiwidude's rant about using Sandcastle to generate documentation for .NET 2.0 applications and libraries. I'm using it for a couple of months now and I m...
Read more ...It's simply the best, better than all the rest: VMware Workstation 6.0 beta can be downloaded here. Besides support for Windows Vista and multiple monitor display, VMware Workst...
Read more ...Jeff Atwood’s latest post is very clear on this matter: Visual SourceSafe is absolute crap. Here a some quotes: If you are serious about the practice of software developmen...
Read more ...What happens when my favorite VS.NET add-in meets with my favorite .NET tool? Pure horse power baby!! Watch the demo here.
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