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Request for Help: Need better guidance for beginners

This morning I happened to see the article “ .NET Coding Standard & Code Review Points ” linked from the good folks over at DotNetKicks.com . I was horrified to see some of the very bad guidance being offered here. While I appreciate and applaud...

Published Sun, Sep 28 2008 11:15 AM by chadmyers

Filed under: .NET, Programming, Design, Guidance
Catching Arguments with Rhino Mocks

I’ve noticed that in quite a few of my tests, I was using a mock simply to test one argument on one of the methods called. Maybe I was making sure it passed a correctly formatted string, the right date/time, or whatever. There was a lot of...

Published Thu, Sep 25 2008 9:29 PM by chadmyers

Filed under: Extension Methods, Mocks
Gregory Long Joins Los Techies

It’s been in the works for awhile, but as he just posted last night , Gregory Long has accepted an invitation to the Los Techies crew! He’s been running another blog for quite some time with some great material. We’re very excited to see what cool...

Published Mon, Sep 22 2008 9:08 PM by chadmyers

Filed under: Misc
ALT.NET, a year or so later from an observer and occasional participant.

First, check out the altdotnet.org site, and it’s short, concise, and poignant statements: We are a self-organizing, ad-hoc community of developers bound by a desire to improve ourselves, challenge assumptions, and help each other pursue excellence in...

Published Mon, Sep 15 2008 10:43 PM by chadmyers

Filed under: ALT.NET
Announcing: Pablo’s Days of TDD in Austin, TX

Los Techies(.com) , its president, Pablo El Burro, and our sponsors are pleased to announce "Pablo's Days of TDD" (PDoTDD). PDoTDD is a day-and-a-half event of workshops, discussion, practice, and training around automated unit testing...

Published Mon, Sep 15 2008 8:58 PM by chadmyers

Filed under: TDD, PDoTDD
LosTechies welcomes new member: Joshua Flanagan

On the the freshly raw heals of our recent abduction of Scott C. Reynolds ’ blogging persona, I’m pleased to announce that Joshua Flanagan has also joined our little community. Joshua is an active member in the .NET community and had his previous blog...

Published Tue, Sep 09 2008 11:16 PM by chadmyers

Filed under: Misc
Continuous Improvement Workshop(s)

I’ve been asked by David Laribee and Scott Bellware to assist in hosting one of the pre-conference workshops for the Continuous Improvement in Software Development Conference (*pant *pant that’s a mouthful, huh?). I’m not sure WHY they asked me, I think...

Published Thu, Sep 04 2008 10:07 PM by chadmyers

Filed under: Kaizenconf
Opinionated ASP.NET MVC by Joshua Flanagan

Joshua Flanagan , who’s been tearing it up for the team I work on at Dovetail, has recently posted two great posts on how we’re doing ASP.NET MVC. I suggest you check ‘em out: Testing with Opinionated ASP.NET MVC (or how going with conventions made our...

Published Wed, Sep 03 2008 12:44 AM by chadmyers

Filed under: ASP.NET, MVC

September 2008 - Chad Myers' Blog

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Request for Help: Need better guidance for beginners

Catching Arguments with Rhino Mocks

Gregory Long Joins Los Techies

ALT.NET, a year or so later from an observer and occasional participant.

Announcing: Pablo’s Days of TDD in Austin, TX

LosTechies welcomes new member: Joshua Flanagan

Continuous Improvement Workshop(s)

Opinionated ASP.NET MVC by Joshua Flanagan