June 19, 2008
Alt.net London Beers #2 - 17th of June 2008
Alt.net London Beers #2 - 17th of June 2008 It’s this time of the month again, and we continue with the tradition of organizing alt.net beers events monthly. As usual, it’s casual, it’s about chit…
May 28, 2008
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May 11, 2008
Developer Day Scotland
Thanks to everyone who attended my session in Glasgow yesterday, I hope you found it useful. The slides will appear on the DDS site at some point but you can find them now on the Black Marble site….
April 23, 2008
ALT.NET Geek Code
Scott Hanselman was tweeting about this tonight and has just posted about Alt.Net Geek Code. Here is mine: IOC(CW):MOC(RM):TDD(NU):TDD(Xu):TDD(Mb):SCC(Svn):ORM(SS):ORM(L2S):XPP(++):DDD(T+) By…
April 22, 2008
Alt.net London Beers - 15th May - 6pm
SerialSeb, one of the attendees at Alt.Net.UK conference earlier in the year, is arranging a few drinks in a London bar (to be announced via upcoming link) as a chance to catch up, meet and have an…
April 21, 2008
Announcing the Alt.net London Beers event
Many people are keen on continuing the discussion that was started by the alt.net conference. While the altdotnet-discuss yahoogroups mailing list has been very active, I feel that much more can be…
April 3, 2008
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February 18, 2008
Geek Dinner with Ayenda - London, Tuesday, 19th Feb, 19:00
Ayende (creator of Rhino Mocks) is coming to London for a few days and Howard van Rooijen has organised a geek dinner. Details on his Ayende’s blog: Geek Dinner at London, Tuesday, 19th Feb, 19:00 Sadly, I don’t think I will be able to attend but if your in the area - pop in have and have a chat. Technorati Tags: altnetuk
February 17, 2008
TypeMock - Erste Schritte
Aufgrund der Diskussionen während der ALT.NET UK Konferenz habe ich beschlossen mir TypeMock mal genauer anzuschauen. Vor allem der Support für Method Chaining interessiert mich. Aber immer der Reihe nach… TypeMock ist ein kommerzielles Mock Framework. Es ist in drei Varianten verfügbar: Community, Professional und Enterprise (siehe Gegenüberstellung der Features). TypeMock verwendet das Profiler API um Aufrufe von Methoden abzufangen. Bisher arbeite ich mit Rhino.Mocks das für diesen Zweck Ca
February 15, 2008
ALT.NET DE Mailingliste gestartet
ALT.NET DE Mailingliste gestartet February 15th, 2008 Ich habe soeben hier http://groups.google.com/group/altnetde/ eine deutsche ALT.NET Mailingliste gestartet. Würde mich freuen dort den ein oder anderen ALT.NETer wiederzutreffen. Technorati-Tags: ALT.NET,altnetuk,altnetde Tags: ALT.NET, altnetde, altnetuk Posted in .NET, ALT.NET, altnetuk | No Comments »
February 11, 2008
ALT.NET UK Unconference
Two weeks ago I attended a.NET conference in London. The conference was organised by “the community”, and was an an open spaces conference. … [667 words]
February 7, 2008
Another declarative programming language to try to test
At the Alt.NET UK conference there was a good deal of discussion about tactics to test declarative languages such as XAML in WPF applications. Well it seems we have another one coming out of the Oslo project - ‘D’. Looks like there is no escape, testing of declarative languages is going to be a ripe area to develop tools and techniques.
February 5, 2008
Developer Testing - Discussion at ALT.NET UK
I thought I’d blog about some of the topics that were discussed at ALT.NET UK, or more correctly my views on those topics. Styles Of Testing I’ve blogged about the fact that I tend not to use interaction testing much. I find interaction testing can result in overspecified software and sometimes in tests that are hard to read. To be fair some of this could be countered by better use of mocking, for example diffrentiating between mocks and stubs (or Stubs and Expecations if thats the terminology
February 4, 2008
Classicist vs. Mockist Test-Driven Development
One thing that came up in a couple of sessions of Altnetconf UK was the old saw of classicist vs. mockist approaches to TDD. Martin Fowler has a great, and updated, article on the distinction between the two approaches here. Now I have to confess to being a classicist. I tried being a mockist, but I gave it up because of the dangers of over-specified software. Now I tend to favor test doubles for the areas that are difficult to get under test otherwise as per Michael Feathers. We are also much…
BDD - I think I'm finally getting some understanding
Nick Hines from Thoughtworks led a really good session on BDD at ALT.NET UK. The session clarified a lot of things for me, though as always after a bit of thought I am left with plenty more questions so I thought a blog entry was in order. What Is BDD My initial experience with BDD was Dave Astels doing a videocast about it. Better TDD and focussing on design were the name of the game. This made sense but when I started looking into it more I got a bit lost. The documentation seems to focus on