Submitted by alastairs on 15 June 2011 - 10:00pm
Today I spent most of the day pairing on a task with another developer. This is unusual for our company (the usual arguments fears are raised) but we both found it a useful experience. Here's what I learned today.
As part of the pairing scenario, I suggested using a ping-pong test-first approach:
Submitted by alastairs on 24 January 2009 - 2:21pm
One of the reasons progress on my web frameworks' evaluation has been so slow of late is that my last check-in broke my CCNET automated build, and, as the good programmer I am, I felt that this needed fixing before I made any more progress.
I'd written some unit tests for the PostController (good) that were accessing the database directly (bad), and for whatever reason the build machine couldn't successfully connect to the database. A classic case of "works on my machine!", and, as is usually the case with such things, a good example of poor design.
Submitted by alastairs on 7 January 2009 - 2:41pm
It's been a little while since I made any progress on this little project of mine, due to the downtime I suffered throughout December. I couldn't get access to my virtual machine server, so I wasn't able to restart the VM hosting my blog and my Subversion repositories; everything went down together.
As such, it's probably time for an update on where I've got to so far.
Submitted by alastairs on 23 November 2008 - 4:23pm
ASP.NET MVC is still only a beta, although it has only recently gained this status from the previous "Tech Preview" releases. The rumour is that it will RTM as part of .NET 4.0.
Submitted by alastairs on 13 September 2008 - 12:10am
I've recently started reading Kent Beck's excellent book Test-Driven Development by Example at work as part of my self-development goals for this quarter. Test-Driven Development (TDD) is something that I'd heard about, and knew the basic principle of (write the unit tests first and write the code to pass them), but had never tried or bothered to read up on.
