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Change I can achieve in

Well, this post is more of the personal variety, but it may affect future posts in one way or another (however, not like this ). In short, a season of change is upon me. Big change #1. I'm getting out of the consulting world for a while. It's...

Published Tue, Mar 03 2008 9:21 PM by joeyDotNet

Filed under: tools, personal

Principles and Patterns over Tools and Frameworks

It's interesting to see what other developers value and/or what topics they are interested in regarding the development of software. I'm going to start doing some internal presentations and live coding sessions at my company for my fellow consultants...

Published Thu, Nov 11 2007 11:41 AM by joeyDotNet

Filed under: refactoring, patterns, tools

Anyone played with Enso?

I ran across this pretty nifty looking launcher/productivity tool called Enso . I've downloaded the launcher and have been playing with it. Unlike most everybody else, I haven't switched to Launchy yet from Slickrun. (I *heart* Slickrun!). Launchy...

Published Tue, Oct 10 2007 9:26 AM by joeyDotNet

Filed under: tools, productivity

NBehave + NSpec

So, quickly, I decided to go ahead and throw NSpec into the mix on top of NBehave . Why not! :) Here is what the example from my previous post would look like using NSpec: [Test, Story] public void Load_checkout_information() { CheckoutOrderDTO checkoutOrderDTO...

Published Wed, Sep 09 2007 12:22 PM by joeyDotNet

Filed under: tools, bdd, nbehave, nspec

NBehave Experiment: MonoRail Controllers & Rhino Mocks

...whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him. -- 1 John 2:5 Well I decided it was finally time I took a look at NBehave as another one of those tools to have in my toolbox. NBehave's primary...

Published Wed, Sep 09 2007 11:17 AM by joeyDotNet

Filed under: monorail, tdd, patterns, tools, bdd, nbehave

The importance of tools to a software craftsman

And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship -- Exodus 31:3 Folks often wonder why I carry my keyboard around with me everywhere there is a chance I need to write some...

Published Sat, Sep 09 2007 8:10 AM by joeyDotNet

Filed under: tools, personal, productivity

SQL Server CE - Great for prototyping and testing

Background Yesterday I put together a simple POC app for my team lead who needed to see Spring.NET + NHibernate in action (no, not the book ) for a client. Even though these days I'm using the Castle stack for most of my IoC/DI and mini-framework...

Published Fri, Jun 06 2007 12:01 PM by joeyDotNet

Filed under: tools, nhibernate

Preliminary thoughts on TDD with MSTest in Orcas

Naysawn , the PM for MSTest, asked that I take a look at the new unit testing features of Orcas, after he read my thoughts on the (sad) current state of MSTest . Unfortunately, I haven't yet had a chance to actually fire up the Orcas VPC to play with...

Published Sun, Jun 06 2007 10:46 PM by joeyDotNet

Filed under: tdd, tools, productivity, mstest, resharper, mbunit

<kill processName="peskyLittleProcess" />

For a second time now, I've found myself needing to kill processes in my automated build scripts, so that was enough for me to automate it and wrap it up in a custom NAnt task. The first time I needed it, I just embedded the C# code inside a NAnt...

Published Mon, Jun 06 2007 8:42 PM by joeyDotNet

Filed under: tools, nant, build

NHibernate Mapping Validation Tool?

Writing my last post got me thinking... Surely someone has written an automated script or tool that could examine NHibernate mapping files and verify all the items I pointed out in my previous post . Or maybe even, another step further, also make sure...

Published Thu, May 05 2007 8:45 PM by joeyDotNet

Filed under: tools, nhibernate, scriptaculous

Thoughts On Validating NHibernate Mapping Files

Ben brought up a good (pain) point in his comment on my last post that can definitely occur when doing integration testing using NHibernate. Invalid mapping files can cause the ISessionFactory to break upon creation, often leaving you to check the logs...

Published Thu, May 05 2007 8:31 PM by joeyDotNet

Filed under: tools, nhibernate

Unit Testing NHibernate DALs - What Are You Really Testing?

Someone new to NHibernate recently asked me how to unit test their data access layer which uses NHibernate. I've already sent him my thoughts on it, but figured it may make for a good blog post to get some of the community's reaction. What Are...

Published Thu, May 05 2007 7:19 AM by joeyDotNet

Filed under: tdd, patterns, tools, nhibernate

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