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• How did I get started in software development?

  Jason Meridth tagged me with this meme, so I'll play along if anyone cares. How old were you when you started programming? I remember being 6 or 7 years old helping my brother open the box for our new Commodore Vic-20 (yeah, that's right baby... Posted Jun 27 2008, 08:04 PM by chadmyers with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: TDD, Programming

• Hosting an entire ASP.NET MVC request for testing purposes

  We've been playing around a lot with the ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 at Dovetail and trying to find various ways to test at various levels. One of the levels we were toying with was doing an end-to-end test including URL routing, controller action, and... Posted Jun 24 2008, 10:11 PM by chadmyers with | with 11 comment(s) Filed under: TDD, ASP.NET MVC

• Introducing Quality-first Notions Into an Existing Team

  In a recent discussion on the altdotnet mailing list , a question was raised: How to you start introducing TDD into an existing team? Bill Barry had some good thoughts on how the process might work , I suggest you check out his post. It got me thinking... Posted May 27 2008, 01:16 PM by chadmyers with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: TDD

• Ping-pong Pairing Session Screencast with Ben Scheirman

  Well, it's two-fer Tuesday here at Los Techies, I guess! By pure coincidence, Ben Scheirman wrapped up the post-production of a screencast we did a few weeks ago. Ben Scheirman just recently posted on his blog about it. Ben did a LOT of work trying... Posted May 14 2008, 12:12 AM by chadmyers with | with no comments Filed under: TDD, Screencast

• I find your lack of tests disturbing.

  Found this here: {|one, step, back|} and I had to cry chuckle. Posted Feb 24 2008, 08:57 AM by chadmyers with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: TDD, Principles

• Austin TDD CodingDojo Homework

  A few folks have been working on some of the stories and code we were talking about at the Austin TDD CodingDojo earlier this month. Joe Ocampo , Ray Houston , and I have been discussing it and Joe even did a cool spike/prototype to get things moving... Posted Feb 19 2008, 09:42 PM by chadmyers with | with no comments Filed under: TDD, CodingDojo

• The first 2 hours of TDD are the most painful

  Quick Background I admit, I've had a lot of failures with TDD. Mostly they were solo projects and I didn't have the discipline and self control enough to stick with it. I ALWAYS regretted not sticking with it. However poorly I was doing it, it... Posted Feb 12 2008, 10:08 PM by chadmyers with | with 20 comment(s) Filed under: TDD, Programming, CodingDojo

• Austin TDD CodingDojo Complete

  On Saturday morning, February 9th, 2008, on the frozen tundra of Lambeau Field , 20+ geeks descended to explore what TDD was all about. Ok, it wasn't frozen, nor tundra, nor Lambeau Field, but it was Feb. 9th and we were all geeks and it was good... Posted Feb 10 2008, 10:46 PM by chadmyers with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: TDD, CodingDojo

• Austin TDD CodingDojo Signup

  The details of the Austin TDD CodingDojo event have been finalized and the sign up form is now online. Signup (opens in new window): http://austintddcodingdojo.wufoo.com/forms/austin-tdd-codingdojo-signup/ Details: Who You! We hope to have a good mix... Posted Jan 10 2008, 02:07 PM by chadmyers with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: TDD, .NET