Just a quick note that a follow-up article to my TDD with DBPro article was posted on InfoQ. Feel free to go check it out! Test Driven Development with Visual Studio for Database Professionals
Category: General
Discovering who is holding a reference to a file with Process Monitor
A common question I see come up is someone working with ASP.NET tries to push a new deployment to their server but then sees errors from aspnet_compiler or during JIT which says that the compiler can not access certain files in either the web root or the Temporary ASP.NET Files. Almost always this is caused…
Surviving in a Company
Whether you are in a small or large company, eventually you run into politics, and if you are really lucky, backstabbing, poor management and all sorts of other fun stuff. Some people get upset, and others start blogs. But when you get to the other side, you get to dispense with great advice like this: …
Adding a List of Links to a TFS Work Item
I had a question from a customer who needed to have a default list of links displayed on their Work Item in TFS. While one would think the LinksControl would be the ideal place, there isn’t a good way to insert links to it without resorting to writing custom code. Fortunately there is an easier way…
New Version of the TFS Power Tools released
Last night Brian Harry announced the new version of the TFS power tools. One of the really cool thingsin this release is the TFS Best Practices Analyzer. It parses through your configuration to make sure everything is set up correctly. I got to work with the tool several months back and found it to be invaluable.
Inside IronRuby
The IronRuby team has been making great progress, and the stuff they are doing is very cool. I thought it would be a neat exercise to dive into what happens behind the scenes to take a snippet of Ruby Code and execute it. First, you’ll need the latest version of the source from RubyForge (above). Go…
Another new .NET Unit Testing Framework on the block
On Friday, Jim Newkirk announced a new .NET testing framework called xUnit.net. So far, I really like the looks of it – things like getting rid of [TearDown] in favor of making the test disposable and adding Assert.Throws instead of [ExpectedException]. And while I agree with a lot of the reason’s behind Jim’s post, and his…
Having your email address sold for spam
Since around 2000, I’ve owned my own domain and pretty much had my email on it since then. When you own your own domain, one thing you get control over is the email that is sent to it. So pretty early on I made a decision that whenever I did business with a company that…
ARRRR Matey
Shiver me timbers! The vagabonds that be showin’ up fer the meetin’ tonight can laugh if they laugh on th’ other side, but they’s be as good as a dead man’s chest for not knocking their noggins fer today’s International Talk Like a Pirate Day! ARRR!
Space Coast .NET User Group Meeting on Ruby Tomorrow Night
Tomorrow night (9/19/07) I’ll be speaking at the Space Coast .NET User Group on Ruby for .NET Developers. I’ll be covering Ruby as a language, Rails, RSpec, IronRuby and the DLR. The meeting starts at 6:30pm at a place called Charlie and Jake’s which sounds like a fun place. Hope to see you there!