Cory Foy

Recently I was looking through some stuff, and found a quote I posted from Kelly Anderson on the Maverick Software Development list: Quality in real money terms (and that is the way we keep score in business) is the inverse of the expense of technical support. If technical support is a profit center, then quality…

Now this is cool news. It was announced a few days ago that Unit Testing and some other features are being moved out of the Developer and Tester Team System versions into the Professional version, meaning pretty much everyone will have access to it. However, I disagree with Brad Wilson that unit testing should be…

I had a customer ask me recently for a way to auto-generate Unit Tests for Web Services based only on the WSDL using Visual Studio. Now, those of you who know me know I would call those “Integration Tests” (or perhaps “Deathly Slow Tests”), but a need is a need, and it’s actually pretty straightforward….

This week I’ve been working with a customer to implement Forms Authentication for their MOSS site. Actually, it’s mixed authentication since they’ll have part via AD and part via a database. There are some great tutorials out there, but some people run into the problem I did – after modifying the web.config files, you have to add…

I’m catching up from my emails after being gone to an offsite event all week (what other company pays its employees to go to an offsite event and stay at the Bellagio in Vegas for a week?), and noticed that the Team Foundation Branching Guidance is now up and available on CodePlex. I saw a prerelease…

When I was helping the NUnit team with Linux integration, Charlie tested moving the project to CodePlex. Which was all fine and dandy, except I couldn’t access the source code repository from my Linux box to pull down or push up code. Well, Linux developers needing to access CodePlex rejoice! Teamprise, who makes a handy-dandy…

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Several months ago, US Airways had made a bid for Delta, whom I fly a lot. Now, everyone has their favorite airlines, but something about US Airways from flying them out of Charlotte and St Louis had never sat right with me. Their attitude might have been captured by their company spokesman a few days…